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PagerDuty is an enterprise incident management platform for on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalation policies, and incident response orchestration. It integrates with 750+ monitoring, ticketing, cloud, and collaboration tools, including Datadog, Slack, Jira, AWS, and Microsoft Teams. Current pricing lists a Free tier for up to 5 users, Professional from $21/user/mo annually ($25 monthly), Business from $41/user/mo annually ($49 monthly), and Enterprise custom.

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PagerDuty has been the industry standard for incident management since 2009, routing alerts from monitoring tools to the right on-call engineer through phone, SMS, push notifications, and email. The platform's core strength is its flexible routing engine: event rules filter and transform raw alerts, escalation policies ensure someone always responds, and schedule management handles complex rotation patterns across global teams following the sun.

The incident response workflow integrates tightly with Slack and Microsoft Teams for war room coordination, with automated status pages for stakeholder communication and post-incident review features for organizational learning. AIOps capabilities use machine learning to correlate related alerts, reduce noise, and surface probable root causes. PagerDuty Advance adds generative AI for automated diagnostics and runbook execution.

Pricing is the most common criticism: the current Incident Management page lists Professional at $25 monthly or $21 annual per user and Business at $49 monthly or $41 annual per user, while AIOps, Status Pages, Live Call Routing, PagerDuty Advance, and stakeholder licensing appear as add-ons or plan-dependent purchases. That packaging can escalate quickly for larger teams, which is why modern alternatives like incident.io, Rootly, and Spike are worth comparing when a team does not need PagerDuty's full enterprise feature set.

Pricing

Free (5 users); Professional $25/mo or $21 annual; Business $49/mo or $41 annual; Enterprise custom

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Web, iOS, Android, Slack/Teams integration, 750+ integrations

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