SolarWinds Incident Response vs xMatters comparison

SolarWinds and Everbridge are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. SolarWinds is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.5, while Everbridge is ranked #13. SolarWinds holds a 1.1% mindshare in IMS, compared to Everbridge’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of SolarWinds users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Everbridge users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2026

xMatters and SolarWinds Incident Response compete in the incident management sector. xMatters has the upper hand in customization and flexibility, whereas SolarWinds is praised for its user-friendly reporting and cost-effectiveness.

Features: xMatters excels in workflow building, custom REST API integrations, and notification management. It is noted for its high flexibility and built-in integrations that streamline processes and incident management. Users can extensively customize notifications and designed workflows, which improves efficiency in managing incidents. SolarWinds Incident Response is recognized for its reliable alerts, vast integration options, and user-friendly reporting, making it a suitable choice for more straightforward incident management needs.

Room for Improvement: xMatters users call for better integration flexibility, enhanced reporting features, and improvements to API and license management. Some highlight a need for more intuitive dynamic list and template management. SolarWinds Incident Response may benefit from a more intuitive UI and stricter alert resolution controls. There are user-driven enhancement opportunities for both products to meet evolving needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: xMatters offers multiple deployment options, including private, public, and hybrid cloud configurations, with a commendable support team known for quick assistance and high responsiveness. SolarWinds also supports varied cloud setups and has a solid support framework, although xMatters is perceived to excel in customer engagement and response times.

Pricing and ROI: xMatters is characterized by a higher price due to its comprehensive features, which may yield substantial ROI through enhanced incident management efficiency despite its costly licensing model. In contrast, SolarWinds Incident Response is viewed as cost-effective with affordable user pricing, appealing to organizations prioritizing budget. The decision between these products should consider the balance of costs and organizational needs, with xMatters offering advanced features for a higher expenditure.

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Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Incident Response

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

xMatters

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

13th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of SolarWinds Incident Response is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of xMatters is 4.4%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SolarWinds Incident Response	1.1%
xMatters	4.4%
Other	94.5%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

Featured Reviews

HemantKumar7

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Proactive alert routing has improved uptime and now reduces incident impact across teams

Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts. Alerts can only be resolved via proper signals from Alertmanager. Users should not be able to resolve incidents without manual intervention. This is a major requirement because team members sometimes resolve alerts manually, risking the resolution of critical alerts. Additionally, with multiple production environments and services, we receive multiple alerts for issues such as the same disk alert several times. To reduce this noise, we utilize suppression and need deduplication rules. Having a feature to set deduplication rules in one service applicable to other services would be a great help. Other improvements needed for Squadcast include observations I have made over the last four years, and I will convey any updates regarding improvements in the future.

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Dean-Robinson

Sr. Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

A versatile solution with excellent logging capabilities that reduced our time to resolve

The reporting functionality could be improved, though I know that's something xMatters, inc. is working on. For example, sometimes I need to go into the platform and find users who aren't in groups that have been created recently, haven't logged in and so on. Previously, this was hard work, but they added loads of filters, making it more accessible. Still, the ability to create custom-designated reports that I could run and schedule would be fantastic for me. It would be good if they keep improving the reporting functionality, as it can be somewhat restrictive sometimes. There are a couple of improvements that xMatters could make to the incident hub, where we can manage high-priority incidents. More sharing capability between collaborating incident managers would be good to see, including the ability to whiteboard. That would allow them to share and sketch out ideas while looking for a solution. Those two features are essential, and that's why we want to use the solution in conjunction with Everbridge because xMatters doesn't have them.

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Pros

"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization by providing timely acknowledgment of alerts, which improves our handling of production issues."

"Squadcast notifications have helped me resolve issues faster because they notify me as soon as an issue happens, and then I go and fix it before it gets escalated to further sections."

"Squadcast has impacted our organization positively by reducing more time and by making sure our solution runs faster."

"When we receive alerts in a timely manner, we can proactively monitor our systems without downtime, maintaining system health with proper alerts, and within the time frame, we can take the necessary action to resolve those alerts, helping to delay major incidents and achieving uptime above 99.9% and 99.2%."

"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization because we are timely getting alerts, and based on those alerts, we can take the required actions, so if there is any burning security alert, we can timely act to avoid production downtime, which results in a return on investment, and there are many transactional costs involved in it, so by reducing the downtime of the system, we are able to save revenue loss from the client side."

"Squadcast has positively impacted my organization by significantly limiting production incidents compared to before; after using Squadcast, we are much more aware of particular incidents happening with the production server."

"Squadcast helped us build a better product by improving both response time and reliability."

"Squadcast has positively impacted our organization because we are confident that we will not miss any alert or system outage, as Squadcast ensures the alert reaches the person even if the SRE person is not available."

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"After implementing the solution and updating the groups/on-call list we have seen a huge volume of increase in the Time of React, which helps us to alert the right resources within a fraction of seconds (after the alert is generated) and allows for quick notification and a faster restoration process."

"We have reduced the time it takes to resolve major incidents through xMatters’s conference bridge management solution."

"Having this automated has led to a significant improvement in incident resolution time (resolution can now occur quicker than the time to previously contact the correct person)."

"The two-way integration between ServiceNow and xMatters allows us to assign tickets to support personnel faster and respond to incidents faster."

"By adding the ServiceNow integration, we have been able to page support groups for critical incidents and move scheduling from ServiceNow into xMatters, offering more control to our support groups."

"It has reduced the time to engage engineers, which leads to improved ticket resolution and ultimately to improved service provision for our clients, with our systems down for less time because the engineers are engaged much faster."

"One of the things that really attracted me is in workflows, you can write your own custom steps in JavaScript. You are not restricted to the steps that they provide. If you can write it in JavaScript, you can pretty much do anything. It gives me flexibility in ways that other platforms don't. For example, the online dashboard system we use is not a widely used one, but they have an API. So, I'm able to write the JavaScript steps to do things like check if a system's in the maintenance window or create an instant on the dashboard or change the status of an instant. I'm not dependent on the dashboard provider or xMatters creating steps for me."

"We definitely saved money because of time to react and minimized downtime."

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Cons

"Squadcast could be improved if the pricing could be reduced per user."

"I remember when we were working on the integration, the documentation was not great, and we found it difficult to understand what the document was saying in some parts."

"Squadcast could be improved because when multiple alerts trigger, the team currently performs manual resolution of those alerts."

"Squadcast user interface is poor, especially when you are on a smaller screen, as it makes the navigation experience very bad."

"Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts."

"A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed."

"Squadcast could enhance the UI to be more user-friendly."

"Sometimes, while updating the escalation policies tab, Squadcast takes a lot of time, which could be improved."

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"They could make the product more customizable."

"A lot of the issues that we've had have already been addressed. However, they could be clearer with the actual throughput and the costs. The throughput that we signed up for was a lot lower than what we needed, and we had to pay a lot more to get the throughput that we needed."

"They recently released an incident module that allows users, or at least teams, to track major incidents and other things, and you can send out communication via that one webpage. You can engage on-call teams and communicate to stakeholders as well, but one thing that is missing there is a group chat. If there is a group chat on the same webpage that all of the support teams could use, it would be a one-stop shop that all of the major incident managers would use as their product to manage a major incident. Without that, at the moment, they are mainly referring to teams and then adding data into xMatters as and when they can."

"One of the shortcomings or room for improvement is that their mobile application seems subpar. They could really revamp it and make it function a lot better."

"On-call management scheduling is difficult."

"I would like some minor UI changes. I believe I filed some enhancement requests with xMatters. For example, in one area, they have some way for you to look at a particular functionality with different sets of reporting UI. However, that same reporting UI is not yet available with some other functionalities. Essentially, in their existing functionality, the xMatters application does an excellent job, but in other functionalities within their UI, they don't have that. On the back-end, they are related. Instead of one click where you can see everything, right now you need to go to different areas to access similar information. It would be nice to have everything in one place. While they have an excellent element A, I am hoping that they could just simply make that feature also available in their element B."

"We would like to see a greater variety of integrations with ServiceNow. It works fine as it is, but an enhancement would be the ability to interact with the major incident module in ServiceNow... The way our major incident process works, when an incident is elevated from a P1 to a major incident, that is an extra flag in ServiceNow. It would be awesome to have xMatters get notification when something goes from a P1 to a major and then have it go through a different workflow, rather than our regular P1."

"While they do have an extensive library of integrations, sometimes those integrations or custom integrations, require a more technical level of expertise in products outside of xMatters, such as Java."

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"The cost depends very much on the company's size and usage. We're a very high use case compared to many companies, so we had to consider licensing costs carefully. If we added all our users, that would be 30,000, and that's no good; we wouldn't have been able to afford it. For example, we had to put in customization to sync across on-call users. For the license per user, the price is very reasonable and comparable to ServiceNow when factoring in everything that needs to get up and running."

"Cost is probably my biggest concern. I know the solution was recently acquired by Everbridge, and Everbridge was one of the competitors that was included in our RFP five years ago. Everbridge's costs were astronomical compared to where every other solution was, not just xMatters."

"This is a subscription-based, SaaS solution."

"I'm not really involved with the cost standpoint. I've only heard rumors of how much it costs, and if it costs what I think it costs, its cost is very high as compared to a lot of other tools that we're using here. It seems on the higher end from a cost standpoint."

"It is worth the cost. You need to know the number of users that are going to use it, which is usually pretty easy to calculate. It's on a per-user license."

"I do not think it is worth the value."

"Then, in pricing, you are limited on your number of SMS messages that you can send a month and the licensing cost annually."

"You pay for the user, not the number of alerts. Therefore, xMatters provides a better ROI, if you can leverage it for notifications based on alerts from other monitoring tools. "

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

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Construction Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

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Construction Company

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Midsize Enterprise	8

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squadcast?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very awesome because pricing is affordable. They charge a very affordable pricing compared to features. The setup cost was more attractive.

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What needs improvement with Squadcast?

A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed.

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What is your primary use case for Squadcast?

My main use case for Squadcast is in two different ways. I use it for on-call management, whereby I'm able to schedule calls and do the escalations, as well as live call routing to agents. That is ...

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Overview

Squadcast enhances incident management by providing centralized notifications and alert escalation. Its integration capabilities and user-friendly design improve response times, impacting MTTR and MTTA positively. Organizations use Squadcast to streamline incident responses and maintain system thresholds efficiently.

Squadcast is an effective platform for incident management, offering features like multiple notifications via phone, email, and SMS for quick alert responses. Escalation policies and maintenance window suppression help reduce alert noise. Its integration capabilities with Prometheus and AWS improve service management, ensuring alerts are timely acknowledged and routed to the appropriate teams. Users find Squadcast's interface support for incident management and reporting beneficial. Suggestions for improvement include simplifying the interface, enhancing alert handling, and clarifying documentation.

What are the standout features of Squadcast?

Notifications: Receive alerts via phone, email, and SMS for fast response.
Escalation Policies: Customize how alerts escalate for efficient handling.
Integration: Seamless integration with Prometheus, AWS, and other tools.
Routing: Direct alerts to relevant teams with tagging for focused responses.
Maintenance Window: Suppress alerts during maintenance to reduce noise.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Improved Response Times: Faster alert acknowledgment impacts MTTR positively.
Team Efficiency: Enhances incident routing and management.
Service Management: Integrations with monitoring tools streamline operations.
Alert Reduction: Maintenance suppression lowers alert noise.

In the tech sector, organizations rely on Squadcast for monitoring and threshold breaches. Integrating with Prometheus and Alertmanager, it serves as a central alert system. Notifications trigger via various channels to ensure rapid incident response. This setup helps tech teams maintain performance metrics effectively.

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xMatters provides robust automated notifications and incident management, enhancing alerting and critical IT incident handling with seamless integrations, ensuring timely communications.

xMatters is designed for efficient incident management and streamlined IT alerting. It offers flexibility through integrations with ServiceNow, Slack, and others, enhancing communication and workflow management during critical events. Users highlight the SaaS model, customizable on-call scheduling, and effective communication tools. These features reduce incident response times, enhance message delivery, and support team collaboration across platforms.

What features make xMatters stand out?

REST API Automation: Facilitates seamless integration and automation.
Intuitive UI: Simplifies the user experience for managing workflows.
Workflow Builder: Enhances customization for incident processes.
Integration Flexibility: Supports various tools like ServiceNow and Slack.
Customizable Scheduling: Offers tailored on-call schedules and escalation paths.
Automated Notifications: Streamlines incident response times.
Robust Logging: Ensures reliability in tracking system activities.
Device Management: Offers comprehensive control over notification devices.
Self-Service Capabilities: Empowers users in managing their alerts and settings.
Conference Bridging: Facilitates communication during incident resolution.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Enhanced by seamless integrations.
Improved Incident Response: Driven by automated notification and escalation pathways.
User Empowerment: Through self-service and device management features.
Accessibility: Enabled by a SaaS-based infrastructure.
Collaboration: Boosted through messaging and conference features.

xMatters supports industries in managing IT incidents and emergency notifications. Teams prioritize alerts, maintain on-call schedules, and automate response workflows, particularly integrating with tools like ServiceNow for critical event handling. Its application in infrastructure monitoring and proactive engagement is notable across sectors.

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Over 2.7 million users trust xMatters daily at successful startups and global giants including athenahealth, BMC Software, Box, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, Experian, NVIDIA, ViaSat and Vodafone. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, California and has offices worldwide. Visit our website to see how business like yours found solutions with xMatters.

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