Alternatives to Rootly
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that runs incident response inside Slack and other chat tools. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Rootly
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that runs incident response inside Slack and other chat tools.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Rootly.
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 AI root cause analysis and a free plan, while Rootly is paid only.
PagerDuty
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response.
PagerDuty is a paid hosted on-call platform with over 750 integrations, incident handling from Slack or the IDE, and automation plus AI agents for routine incident work.
FireHydrant
Hosted incident management platform with on-call alerting, runbooks, status pages and post-incident retrospectives.
FireHydrant is a freemium hosted platform adding runbooks, a service catalog and status pages, with incident handling from Slack or Teams.
Grafana Cloud IRM
A hosted incident response service combining on-call scheduling, alert routing and incident management in Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Cloud IRM provides on-call scheduling and incident response with mobile apps, billed for active users, and is tied to Grafana Cloud.
Xurrent IMR
A hosted incident management and on-call alerting platform, formerly called Zenduty.
Xurrent IMR, formerly Zenduty, is a paid hosted platform paging by phone, SMS, push, email, Slack and Teams, with on-call schedules and playbooks.
ilert
A hosted alerting, on-call management and status page service for operations teams, made in Germany.
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.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
OneUptime is an open-source Apache-2.0 platform with on-call alerting, incidents and status pages that can be self-hosted, unlike the hosted-only Rootly.
SolarWinds Incident Response
A hosted incident response service, formerly Squadcast, for alert handling, on-call schedules and escalations.
SolarWinds Incident Response, formerly Squadcast, is a paid cloud service with alert deduplication, on-call rotations and escalation paths, priced per user after the trial.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Rootly as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Keep
A self-hostable, open-source alert management platform that deduplicates, correlates and routes alerts.
Rootly runs incident response and on-call inside Slack, Teams or Google Chat as a paid hosted service, rather than a self-hosted alert management interface.
Spike.sh
A hosted incident management and on-call service that alerts people by phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Slack.
Rootly centres incident response in Slack, Microsoft Teams or Google Chat with on-call scheduling and retrospectives, and offers migration help for Opsgenie users.
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.
Sentry
An error tracking and application performance monitoring service for developers, hosted or self-hosted.
PagerTree
A hosted on-call scheduling and alert routing service for DevOps teams, with mobile apps.
