Alternatives to ilert
A hosted alerting, on-call management and status page service for operations teams, made in Germany. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ilert
A hosted alerting, on-call management and status page service for operations teams, made in Germany.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ilert.
PagerDuty
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response.
PagerDuty brings more than 750 integrations and AI agents for incident work, but it has no German hosting emphasis and no mobile apps listed in the roster.
incident.io
Hosted reliability platform combining on-call paging, incident response, AI root cause analysis and status pages.
incident.io offers on-call, incident response and status pages with a free plan to start, adding AI root cause investigation, but no EU hosting is mentioned.
FireHydrant
Hosted incident management platform with on-call alerting, runbooks, status pages and post-incident retrospectives.
FireHydrant has a freemium tier and adds runbooks and a service catalog, and it includes a migration tool for PagerDuty and Opsgenie configurations.
Grafana Cloud IRM
A hosted incident response service combining on-call scheduling, alert routing and incident management in Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Cloud IRM has a freemium tier, mobile apps and billing only for active users, but it is tied to Grafana Cloud rather than hosted in Germany.
PagerTree
A hosted on-call scheduling and alert routing service for DevOps teams, with mobile apps.
PagerTree offers on-call escalation layers, push, SMS and voice alerts and mobile apps, but it lacks the status pages and German hosting that ilert provides.
SolarWinds Incident Response
A hosted incident response service, formerly Squadcast, for alert handling, on-call schedules and escalations.
Squadcast adds alert correlation and deduplication with on-call rotations, charged per user after a 14-day trial, and is now part of the SolarWinds product line.
Xurrent IMR
A hosted incident management and on-call alerting platform, formerly called Zenduty.
Xurrent IMR, formerly Zenduty, alerts by phone, SMS, push, email, Slack and Teams with playbooks, but no EU hosting or status pages are mentioned.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
OneUptime is open source under Apache-2.0 and can be self-hosted, so data stays on your servers, and it combines on-call, status pages and monitoring.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ilert as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
ilert is a paid, Germany-hosted service for on-call alerting, incident management and status pages, alerting by push, SMS, voice and messengers, but without log management.
Rootly
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that runs incident response inside Slack and other chat tools.
ilert is a paid German-hosted service with on-call, incident management and status pages, focused on GDPR compliance and alerting by voice and SMS.
Spike.sh
A hosted incident management and on-call service that alerts people by phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Slack.
ilert alerts via push, SMS, voice call and messengers, adds status pages and mobile apps, and is hosted in Germany with GDPR compliance.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Statuspage
Atlassian's hosted service for publishing status pages and notifying users about incidents and maintenance.
Prometheus Alertmanager
A server that deduplicates, groups and routes alerts from Prometheus to email, PagerDuty and other receivers.
Keep
A self-hostable, open-source alert management platform that deduplicates, correlates and routes alerts.
