Alternatives to PagerTree
A hosted on-call scheduling and alert routing service for DevOps teams, with mobile apps. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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PagerTree
A hosted on-call scheduling and alert routing service for DevOps teams, with mobile apps.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as PagerTree.
PagerDuty
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response.
PagerDuty adds more than 750 integrations and AI agents for incident automation, but no mobile apps are listed and its AI emphasis may exceed small teams' needs.
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 active-user billing plus incident management, but it is tied to Grafana Cloud.
ilert
A hosted alerting, on-call management and status page service for operations teams, made in Germany.
ilert offers on-call with push, SMS and voice alerts, mobile apps, and adds status pages and incident management, hosted in Germany with GDPR compliance.
Spike.sh
A hosted incident management and on-call service that alerts people by phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Slack.
Spike.sh adds WhatsApp alerts and rule-based routing on title, severity and payload priority, but it has no mobile apps mentioned and is paid after the trial.
Squadcast
Hosted incident response service that gathers alerts, runs on-call schedules and escalates incidents for engineering teams.
Squadcast adds alert correlation and deduplication to on-call rotations and escalation, charged per user after a 14-day trial, as 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 and adds playbooks for incident coordination.
FireHydrant
Hosted incident management platform with on-call alerting, runbooks, status pages and post-incident retrospectives.
FireHydrant combines on-call with runbooks, a service catalog and incident response, has a freemium tier, and offers migration tools for PagerDuty and Opsgenie.
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 self-hostable, adding monitoring and status pages to on-call paging, though it takes effort to run yourself.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Prometheus Alertmanager
A server that deduplicates, groups and routes alerts from Prometheus to email, PagerDuty and other receivers.
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
Keep
A self-hostable, open-source alert management platform that deduplicates, correlates and routes alerts.
Alerta
A self-hosted system that collects, deduplicates and displays alerts from many monitoring tools.
