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PROS

Opsgenie offers robust integration with various applications, allowing customizations without extensive coding, which facilitates seamless data transfer with tools like Jira.
The automatic ticket creation for support teams upon receiving alerts enhances incident response efficiency.
The on-call rotation and scheduling feature simplifies team management by automatically organizing schedules, with options to reschedule easily when necessary.
Opsgenie effectively manages on-call duties and alerts, supporting teamwork with features like the separation of queues and devices for cloud and on-premises environments.
Its integration with services like AWS CloudWatch provides timely alerts for anomalies, enabling swift action on incidents and performance issues.

CONS

Opsgenie should improve its cloud integrations, particularly with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Automation and orchestration features similar to ServiceNow are needed in Opsgenie.
The on-call rotation feature in Opsgenie is not user-friendly, especially when adding new users.
Opsgenie has issues handling a large number of alerts in a short period, suggesting room for improvement in its alert management capabilities.
The integration between Opsgenie and Jira has been scaled back, leading to reduced functionality in managing incidents and ticket transfers.
 

Opsgenie Pros review quotes

reviewer1156554 - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Developer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 12, 2020
OpsGenie has many features, such as email notification, SMS notification, roster, tracking of the tickets. Automation, like scripting, is also possible. There are also features for maintaining the history of the tickets and all the solutions related to how it was resolved previously. If there are similar kinds of tickets, we can look at how a person is working on that ticket. If he doesn't have any idea, you can look back at a similar ticket and solve it as the previous person did it.
SK
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 1, 2020
The integration feature is the most valuable. It provides a lot of customizations for the integrations we use.
Snir Gavriel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 6, 2022
One of the features my team found valuable in Opsgenie is the alert. There's also the option to install an app on your phone, so even if you don't have any mobile reception, but you're still connected to WiFi, you still get the alerts via the app, not just via phone call or SMS. The combination of both options was very useful because sometimes you have data and you don't have coverage by mobile, or vice versa. To have both options in terms of receiving alerts was very useful. Another valuable feature of Opsgenie is the on-call rotation with alerts. I belonged to a small team of three, then the team expanded into four members where everyone was on a weekly on-call basis, with each team member having a week of being on-call. At first, it was a bi-weekly on-call rotation, then it became once every three weeks, and after that, it was once every four weeks, so the on-call rotation with an alert feature was useful. My previous company had two separate environments, on the cloud and on-premises. My team was in charge of the on-premise environment, so there was a queue for my team with everything in Opsgenie, then the DevOps team had its queue on a group of infrastructure related to the cloud. Each team had its own devices organized in a group that was only managed per team. The on-call rotation was also separated between groups. Opsgenie is a very convenient solution for both teams in my previous company.
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VK
Sr software engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 16, 2022
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.
AbhishekSingh10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Lead at PureSoftware Ltd
Sep 16, 2022
Opsgenie integrates with Atlassian and other web monitoring and incident management tools.
SaurabhSingh2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Engineering Director at Ace Pointer
Sep 22, 2022
The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically create a ticket for the support team when there is an alert.
Syed Mohammad Arshad - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Operations and Client Services at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Oct 3, 2022
Opsgenie is easy to configure and use.
Felipe Lopes - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at Alice
Oct 4, 2022
The rotation and scheduling are beneficial.
reviewer1982583 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Oct 6, 2022
We can rely on the product to organize our schedules. We don't have to think about who will be next on-call. The system already gives us the answer. We don't have to waste time organizing how people are going to be covering each of their rotations. There's also an override option. So, it's easy to reschedule or reorganize our schedules when someone goes on vacation or when someone is on sick leave.
Anik Guha - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at Coforge Growth Agency
Dec 6, 2022
This is a scalable solution. I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability.
 

Opsgenie Cons review quotes

reviewer1156554 - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Developer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 12, 2020
It should have a lot of plugins. It should also come with cloud integrations, which are not that great with OpsGenie as of now. It should have AWS, Azure, and Google cloud integrations. It should also provide automation, that is, it should open somewhere, like orchestration. Something like the orchestration that ServiceNow is doing. That would be great. Orchestration is the main thing. If OpsGenie comes with stack down feature, not completely but some part of it, and orchestration is there, that would be beneficial.
SK
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 1, 2020
OpsGenie needs to keep up with its competitors in terms of new features and pricing.
Snir Gavriel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 6, 2022
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.
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VK
Sr software engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 16, 2022
The handshake with the monitoring tools can also be improved. 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 handshake issues were there.
AbhishekSingh10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Lead at PureSoftware Ltd
Sep 16, 2022
They could introduce many more features.
SaurabhSingh2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Engineering Director at Ace Pointer
Sep 22, 2022
The solution has room for improvement by providing bundle pricing with other products that are frequently used together from Atlassian.
Syed Mohammad Arshad - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Operations and Client Services at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Oct 3, 2022
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. There are lots of limitations in the cloud version The add-on or features that work with the Data Center versions are not compatible with the cloud version.
Felipe Lopes - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at Alice
Oct 4, 2022
The user interface could be improved.
reviewer1982583 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Oct 6, 2022
I would like to see a little bit more work in API key management in the Opsgenie UI. It's a bit difficult to manage sometimes. For example, in terms of management, you can either see all the keys or none of the keys. This is something for which I would like to have better granularity so that I could give some people access to some of the keys. It's something that I don't have today if I'm not mistaken.
Anik Guha - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at Coforge Growth Agency
Dec 6, 2022
In a future release, we would like to receive alerts when a specific threshold is reached and to escalate the reason for that alert.