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Everbridge IT Alerting vs Opsgenie vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Everbridge IT Alerting is 5.8%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Opsgenie is 9.1%, down from 17.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 13.1%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud13.1%
Opsgenie9.1%
Everbridge IT Alerting5.8%
Other72.0%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1846215 - PeerSpot reviewer
Crisis Management Director at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Helps in identifying potential impact and allows us to see where our assets are in relation to a risk event
I personally love VCC because I just think there needs to be more data to support it so we can be more proactive and easily assess the impact. So, I appreciate the visual aspect, but it has to have the data to support it. It has proved very useful, particularly because we have a GSOC that's not technically 24/7. We do have an 800 number that people call 24/7. If something happens, they can easily send Everbridge a notification to activate the team off hours. It is useful in that respect too. We use it in conjunction with teams, but off-hours and for additional people outside of the core team, we use Everbridge, which is useful.
Pramodh M - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Offers different levels of notification options, including WhatsApp integration
Opsgenie has been most valuable in managing our incident response. We use Opsgenie for on-call management of AWS services, and its integration with CloudWatch has been particularly beneficial. Opsgenie alerts us to anomalies in cloud services, not just incidents but also performance issues like delayed response times or execution errors. So, we will quickly know about the issue, and it allows us to take swift action. It has been very helpful to us. Opsgenie's strength lies in its configurable alerting levels, from first responders to escalation managers. It offers different levels of notification options, including WhatsApp integration, ensuring timely alerts to the relevant team members. We also use the on-call scheduling feature. It is easy to use. The on-call scheduling feature is user-friendly and easily integrates with our existing systems, streamlining schedule management without added complexity.
NS
Senior SRE at IBM
Automated incident workflows have transformed on-call operations and improved response times
Since I host our internal services, I want more customization relating to our specific use case. The needed improvements include the configuration process, as new team members face a steep learning curve to understand the platform. With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users. Additionally, I feel the web interface requires improvements. I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows. The primary reasons for rating it an eight include the complex configuration which makes it challenging for new users, as well as their difficulty in setting up advanced runbook workflows and managing complex on-call setups. The web user interface also requires improvement. Although I receive alerts via the mobile app, which is beneficial for handling schedule maintenance, the same features should be added to the web interface. Customization issues persist, such as the inability to clone entire schedules as part of the workflows, and I want to keep incidents open for a specified duration, neither of which I can currently customize. Thus, I raised a ticket with PagerDuty Operations Cloud to address these concerns. Furthermore, the cost is high, making it one of the more expensive incident management solutions.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is automated escalation, as it eliminates a manual process which is prone to errors."
"Everbridge has managed to actually reduce that to under three minutes, and even in my new company our engagement time is sitting right around three minutes to engage personnel to a critical outage."
"Valuable features include having the Calendar built in. That allows for on-call rotation to be set once and left alone. Also, Slack Integration enables us to have all the information from an incident and discussions documented through Slack, without input."
"The number of man-hours saved, and the standardization of notifications in mass form, have paid for product time and again."
"By leveraging Everbridge, with a few clicks of a mouse, we are able to go in and request as many teams as we require to respond to an incident and bring them together to collaborate much faster."
"We have had great success, using Everbridge for more than 500 different notifications, tests, and other events with no stability issues."
"The response time is real-time alerting. It is very helpful, because it makes things a lot easier. All we have to do is put a circle around a geo-fence and shoot off a message."
"We went from a manual email system to an organized, responsive, automated system, improving our efficiency and everyone's responsiveness while capturing everything in tickets that previously were rarely, if ever, getting created."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically create a ticket for the support team when there is an alert."
"The solution has helped us stay alert on incidents and improved our response times."
"Opsgenie has been most valuable in managing our incident response. We use Opsgenie for on-call management of AWS services, and its integration with CloudWatch has been particularly beneficial. Opsgenie alerts us to anomalies in cloud services, not just incidents but also performance issues like delayed response times or execution errors. So, we will quickly know about the issue, and it allows us to take swift action. It has been very helpful to us."
"We can rely on the product to organize our schedules; we don't have to think about who will be next on-call because the system already gives us the answer and saves us time organizing rotations."
"Opsgenie integrates with Atlassian and other web monitoring and incident management tools."
"OpsGenie has many features, such as email notification, SMS notification, roster, tracking of the tickets, automation like scripting, and maintaining the history of the tickets and all the solutions related to how they were resolved previously."
"I am a Jira admin. The best feature for me is that I do not need to write different code when I integrate with multiple applications. OpsGenie made it easier for me. All I need to do is create a field and give a value. I need to set the parameters and give a value. I can write only one script so that it directly interacts with my Jira and feeds all the data."
"Opsgenie is easy to configure and use."
"It is one of the most critical things you can do in your infrastructure, and it is a no-brainer, just do it."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
"It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person."
"While using PagerDuty hasn't resulted in a decrease in issues, it has allowed us, in combination with the monitoring systems, to know about issues before customers are alerting us."
"PagerDuty has allowed us to identify issues and incidents within the infrastructure that we wouldn't have noticed otherwise."
"A cool feature is that it helps us to understand the flow of the alert. If the alert was coming to the current on-call and he didn't catch the call or didn't notice it for any reason, it starts being escalated automatically, according to the escalation schedule, or to other teammates. You can see the flow very easily on your phone or via the website, if you want to do a post-mortem."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a great tool that saves time and is worth starting to use."
 

Cons

"They still have a limitation due to their partner, I believe it's Twilio, where, if you're on an incident call, there is a four-hour time limit. We often have calls that go over four hours in length so people have to drop and rejoin to reset their four-hour timer. It's a minor inconvenience, but it's not ideal."
"You have to create schedules in Everbridge. It would be better if it could tie into an existing solution, such as Microsoft Exchange or Google Calendar, so that you don't have to create it in both places."
"The company would like to have super detailed analytics, as we integrate this with our security software."
"I would like them to add GPS going forward."
"Explanations are limited to 500 characters in description fields."
"There is some room to improve the initial-rollout functions which are a little bit painful."
"It could use more enhancement type integrations, but no improvements to functionality are needed."
"What I would like to see is vendor alerting. It's not structured to take into account that users outside of our environment, users outside of IT, may not be in the group. IBM is an outside vendor for us, and we have IBM CEs who come in on a regular basis. If there's a problem, we call those vendors in. That should be tied into the system where we can say that vendors A, B, and C have these users and we want them available to come into the office when there's an issue. We want to be able to alert them in the same way we alert internally."
"It should also come with cloud integrations, which are not that great with OpsGenie as of now."
"I would like to see improvements in reporting capabilities that could provide additional value."
"In a future release, we would like to receive alerts when a specific threshold is reached and to escalate the reason for that alert."
"We are using the cloud version of Atlassian products now, but I think the Data Center version we used earlier was much more user-friendly."
"When I needed to add the fourth guy to the on-call rotation, I had trouble finding the option in Opsgenie where I can add the new user. It took me some time to figure out because it it was very small. You have a pencil icon that you need to click, but it was so small and in a place that wasn't so obvious, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. I couldn't find the icon myself and my manager had to show me where it is. Opsgenie needs to be more user-friendly, particularly when it comes to finding the "Add New Users" option in the on-call rotation feature. Other than that, the solution was very easy to use, and you can see both the open and closed alerts."
"Typically, the alerts are vague at times, and when the automated callers begin reading that alert, it does not make sense to us."
"When there were a bunch of alerts or the number of alerts was more than a thousand in a minute, OpsGenie wasn't able to handle everything properly."
"The installation of other applications is difficult in Opsgenie. I would like to see more flexible reporting methodologies. Scalability and pricing also need to be improved."
"I can only suggest cosmetic improvements to the recorded voice when responding to a page. It should be less angry."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"There has been some downtime, but it did not impact the business."
"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."
"I have observed that MTTR is very slow, and wrong escalation sometimes routes alerts to the wrong team rather than the proper team."
"Open alerts should properly respond to SMS resolution beyond the initial alert."
"If I can avoid the 2 AM phone calls that would be perfect but I know that's not possible."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They are one of the cheapest solutions on the market. We looked at all of the major competitors in the space. Everbridge was one of the most affordable for what they are offering."
"It's a seven out of ten for us in terms of pricing. We've just gone through a process of looking at other solutions."
"As far as I'm aware, there are no costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"I do not know about the licensing costs, but I know they're in groups, and there are permission caps. For example, you can have five admin accounts, and anyone can receive a notification. There's a mobile component too, which I find particularly useful, but it has to be a part of the contract."
"We thought the base product was pretty reasonable. It can pricey once you start adding stuff on."
"Everbridge IT Alerting is a cost-efficient solution."
"When we did our contract, we did a three year contract with fixed pricing. We locked in the pricing for three years. As we have grown, we locked in pricing for additional units of employees."
"The annual cost is $125,000 USD. That is for everything. It includes the 11,000 mass notifications. Technically, we have 500 licenses for IT Alerting."
"We have opted for a yearly subscription. The initial quote given was about $29, but I don't know the actual price. There might be some negotiations during renewal."
"The cost of the solution depends on the package you select and is per user."
"In the company I'm working for, currently, we are using the standard edition of Opsgenie. We're paying around $3,000 a month. It's a bit expensive compared to the other tools we use for different purposes. We find it a bit expensive because although Opsgenie is a complete tool for monitoring, it does not provide us with everything."
"Integration with other solutions is one of the most valuable features of Opsgenie."
"From the pricing perspective, they are on the higher side as compared to other competitors."
"The pricing is on the lower side; I would rate it a six out of ten, with ten being low price, which indicates good affordability."
"I'm not the person who dealt with Opsgenie in terms of pricing, and I don't know how the solution compares to other solutions in the market, price-wise. I won't be able to say if it gives you the best value for money or not, but if Opsgenie gives good value for money, then I don't see a reason why you shouldn't use it."
"I rate Opsgenie eight out of 10 for affordability. Opsgenie is on the cheaper side, and it fits our budget. I estimate the license costs around $400 to 500 annually for 15 users. The price is available on the internet. It's a standard, straightforward price."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The cost is based on the package you select."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"The price is very high."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Everbridge IT Alerting?
The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced.
What advice do you have for others considering Everbridge IT Alerting?
We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any ...
What do you like most about Opsgenie?
That clarity, visibility, scheduling, and the management of on-call schedules, as well as tracking SLA breaches and w...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Opsgenie?
The pricing is on the lower side; I would rate it a six out of ten, with ten being low price, which indicates good af...
What needs improvement with Opsgenie?
Initially, Opsgenie had bidirectional integration with Jira Service Management, but that functionality has been scale...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
Regarding pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I am currently a software engineer and a senior software engineer, ...
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved by adding more features. Whatever manual work is there could be automated ...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is used to understand whether there are false positives or false alerts because it is inte...
 

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