Alternatives to PagerDuty

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Rootly

82/100freemiumexplicit relation

Rootly is an AI-native incident management platform that runs entirely within Slack and Microsoft Teams, automating incident workflows from detection through postmortem. It reduces manual incident overhead with AI-generated summaries, automated role assignments, escalation paths, and postmortem drafts, holding SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance certifications for enterprise use.

Slack and Microsoft Teams-native incident management and on-call platform. Offers a Free / Startup tier ($0/mo for small teams with basic incident response and Slack bot) and 14-day free trial. Essentials/Pro tier starts around $20-$39/user/month including automated workflows, on-call scheduling, status pages, and 50+ DevOps integrations (Jira, Datadog, PagerDuty). Enterprise tier provides custom pricing with SAML SSO, advanced audit logs, custom data retention, Terraform provider support, and dedicated SLA.Review →

Incident.io

84/100freemiumexplicit relation

Incident.io is a Slack- and Microsoft Teams-native incident management platform with AI SRE investigation, on-call scheduling, status pages, and post-incident learning in one product. Vendor case studies cite Buffer reducing critical incidents by 70% and Favor reducing MTTR by 37%. It integrates with PagerDuty, Datadog, GitHub, Jira, and 100+ tools for incident response and operational workflows.

Modern ChatOps incident response & on-call platform for Slack and MS Teams. Free Basic tier ($0/mo up to 5 users). Team plan is $15-$19/responder/mo (+$10-$12 for On-Call). Pro plan is $25/responder/mo (+$20 for On-Call, totaling ~$45/mo) with AI post-mortems and custom workflows. Standalone On-Call is $20/user/mo. Viewers are 100% free and unlimited. Enterprise plans provide custom pricing with SAML SSO, SCIM, Slack Enterprise Grid, and 99.99% SLA.Review →

Tracecat

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Tracecat is a YC S24-backed open-source SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) platform that lets security teams build AI-powered playbooks for automated incident response. It provides visual workflow builders for creating response procedures, integrates with common security tools, and handles alert triage, enrichment, and remediation — positioned as an open-source alternative to Tines and Splunk SOAR.

Freemium open-source AI-native SOAR platform. Self-hosting the core engine (via Docker Compose, Kubernetes Helm, or AWS Fargate) is 100% free under open-source licensing with no per-seat or event-ingestion fees. Tracecat Enterprise provides dedicated security engineering support, SCIM provisioning, advanced agent skill registries, and enterprise-grade human-in-the-loop governance controls.

Open-source PagerDuty alternatives

Tracecat — see all open-source developer tools.

Free PagerDuty alternatives

Rootly, Incident.io, Tracecat offer a free plan or free tier.

More AI Monitoring & Observability tools

same category, not editor-selected alternatives — see how PagerDuty compares →

OpenLITOpenLIT is an open-source AI engineering platform that provides OpenTelemetry-native observability for LLM applications. It combines distributed tracing, evaluation, prompt management, a secrets vault, and GPU telemetry in a single self-hostable stack. With 50+ integrations across LLM providers and frameworks, it lets teams monitor AI applications using their existing observability backends like Grafana, Datadog, or Jaeger.GrafanaGrafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability visualization. It connects to virtually any data source — Prometheus, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, Datadog, and 150+ others — to create beautiful, interactive dashboards. Used by millions of users at companies like Bloomberg, JPMorgan, eBay, and PayPal. Grafana Cloud offers a fully managed experience with generous free tier. The CNCF ecosystem standard for metrics visualization.LatitudeLatitude is an agent observability platform for teams that need to inspect LLM traces, conversations, issues, and evaluation feedback in one workflow. Its public repo and docs position it as a Sentry-style monitor for AI agents, with semantic search, issue detection, annotations, MCP-assisted fixes, and cloud or self-hosted deployment paths for production debugging.JudgevalJudgeval is the open-source post-building layer for AI agents from Judgment Labs, providing OpenTelemetry-based tracing, hosted and custom evaluation scorers, and online behavior monitoring for LLM-powered applications. Instrument any function with a single decorator, score live production traffic against faithfulness and instruction-adherence checks, and feed real-world failures back into reinforcement learning or supervised fine-tuning loops.SentrialSentrial is a YC W26-backed monitoring platform for AI agent reliability in production. It semantically detects loops, hallucinations, tool misuse, and user frustration in real-time, then diagnoses root causes and recommends fixes. The platform claims 70% MTTR reduction via automated remediation including rollback, model retraining triggers, and webhooks. Sentrial positions itself as the Datadog for teams deploying autonomous AI agents at scale.DatadogDatadog is a cloud observability and security platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, RUM, synthetics, APM, and security signals. Current pricing pages list 1,000+ integrations for Infrastructure Monitoring, with Pro from $15/host/month and Enterprise from $23/host/month when billed annually.PostHogPostHog is an open-source product and data tools platform for analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, error tracking, web analytics, data warehouse, CDP and LLM observability workflows. It suits developer-led teams that want one integrated product OS instead of many separate tools.Arize PhoenixPhoenix by Arize is an open-source AI observability platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLM applications. It captures prompt-response pairs, retrieval context, agent tool calls, and latency data through OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation. Provides experiment tracking, dataset management, and evaluation frameworks for systematically improving AI application quality. 10K+ GitHub stars.LangfuseLangfuse is an open-source LLM engineering platform with 29K+ GitHub stars for tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI applications. Acquired by ClickHouse, it provides detailed traces of LLM calls, prompt management with versioning, dataset-based evaluation, user feedback collection, and cost tracking. Framework-agnostic with native integrations for LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, and Vercel AI SDK. Offers both self-hosted deployment and a managed cloud service.

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FAQ

Which PagerDuty alternative is listed first?

Rootly is first in the editor-selected list of 3 PagerDuty alternatives and carries an editorial review score of 82/100. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source PagerDuty alternatives?

Yes — Tracecat are open source.

Are there free PagerDuty alternatives?

Yes — Rootly, Incident.io, Tracecat offer a free plan or free tier.