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PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.8
PagerDuty Operations Cloud efficiently handles alerts, improves response times, reduces downtime, and enhances customer satisfaction and reliability.
Sentiment score
6.1
ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides quick ROI through enhanced visibility, workflow speed, and reduced staffing needs.
It reduced staffing needs from four full-time staff to fewer due to automation.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is highly rated for responsive, effective customer support, with most issues resolved swiftly under 24 hours.
Sentiment score
6.1
Customers value ServiceNow IT Operations Management for responsiveness and knowledge, but highlight support consistency and documentation as improvement areas.
For minor issues, the team takes a month's time to provide a fix.
Solve our issues effectively.
The response time of technical support could be improved.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
PagerDuty Operations Cloud excels in scalability, integration, and management, though licensing costs may pose scaling challenges for enterprises.
Sentiment score
7.5
ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers scalable architecture for medium to large entities, though complexity and cost may challenge smaller firms.
The product was highly scalable, with no limits on the number of applications or event routing rules.
ServiceNow ITOM scales very well to small and medium businesses.
It integrates with every single tool, even external tools.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is praised for stability and reliability, with quick resolutions for rare notification delays and effective support.
Sentiment score
7.7
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is stable and reliable, though performance may vary based on setup and network conditions.
It helps us create custom dashboards and provides excellent search functionality where we can search for any issues or errors that have occurred and take corrective action before it impacts the users.
Since it is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, I consider the stability to be very high, rating it ten out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

PagerDuty users seek better time zone handling, UI intuitiveness, integration, automation, and efficient incident management with enhanced analytics.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management needs simplified pricing, enhanced cloud integration, improved UI, streamlined licensing, and better scalability and automation.
It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.
The licensing is complex.
A more streamlined configuration process tailored to use cases and industry would be beneficial.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not very affordable for SMB customers.
 

Setup Cost

PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers flexible pricing, but costs can be high; users find it competitive and valuable.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers costly, feature-rich licensing options, seen as valuable but less competitive than other solutions.
It is definitely high-priced compared to other products available in the same domain in the market.
The pricing model offers scaling where not everything consumes a license equally, providing more value across different business areas.
ServiceNow's pricing is expensive.
 

Valuable Features

PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides seamless incident management with integrations, automation, and user-friendly features, enhancing alert routing and communication.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management enhances efficiency through automation, integration, and user-friendly tools, improving infrastructure management and reducing costs.
It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person.
The performance analytics of ServiceNow was especially beneficial for setting thresholds, aggregating, and correlating infrastructure data.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management influences ITSM processes by automating them and aiding in detecting and resolving IT issues to improve performance, reliability, and uptime.
They provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR.
 

Categories and Ranking

PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in AIOps
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (11th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in AIOps
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (10th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the AIOps category, the mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 8.2%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AIOps Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ServiceNow IT Operations Management8.2%
PagerDuty Operations Cloud2.0%
Other89.8%
AIOps
 

Featured Reviews

JeremyEmmett - PeerSpot reviewer
Centralized alert management with customizable routing and superior scheduling
Everything can always be better. Operations are somewhat limited by their integration package. For example, integrating with Jira was problematic until they updated to a better plug-in. The ability to build customized modules would be advantageous, allowing organizations to define their own integration modules. It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.
PriyankaBachu - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides templates which reduces duplications in rule configuration
Currently, we are integrating LogicMonitor with ServiceNow IT Operations Management to manage IT event management and auto-ticketing for alerts from the monitoring tool to ServiceNow The solution is saving time by providing templates, reducing duplication in rule configuration, and offering…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Performing Arts
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise26
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The solution was expensive, but if all its features were utilized, it was considered worth the cost. The tier-based pricing model was cumbersome, and there was a desire for a service-based catalog ...
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
Everything can always be better. Operations are somewhat limited by their integration package. For example, integrating with Jira was problematic until they updated to a better plug-in. The ability...
What do you like most about ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
From my perspective as an asset manager, the most valuable feature of the solution is the configuration management portion, where I can actively add something to the database.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
It is definitely high-priced compared to other products available in the same domain in the market.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
ServiceNow IT Operations Management has not been very popular in these regions for multiple reasons. One is that for SMB customers, ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not very affordable. It is...
 

Also Known As

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ServiceNow ITOM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast
servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec
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