Alternatives to Spike.sh
A hosted incident management and on-call service that alerts people by phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Slack. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Spike.sh
A hosted incident management and on-call service that alerts people by phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Slack.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Spike.sh.
PagerDuty
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that routes alerts to responders and automates response.
PagerDuty offers more than 750 integrations and AI agents for routine incident work, but it lacks the WhatsApp alerts that Spike.sh provides.
PagerTree
A hosted on-call scheduling and alert routing service for DevOps teams, with mobile apps.
PagerTree provides on-call escalation layers, push, SMS, voice and chat notifications and Android and iPhone apps, plus maintenance windows to pause alerts.
ilert
A hosted alerting, on-call management and status page service for operations teams, made in Germany.
ilert alerts via push, SMS, voice call and messengers, adds status pages and mobile apps, and is hosted in Germany with GDPR compliance.
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 paths, charged per user after a 14-day trial.
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, but no WhatsApp alerts are mentioned.
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, but it is tied to Grafana Cloud and suits Grafana stack users.
FireHydrant
Hosted incident management platform with on-call alerting, runbooks, status pages and post-incident retrospectives.
FireHydrant adds runbooks, a service catalog and full incident response to on-call alerting, with a freemium tier instead of Spike.sh's trial.
Rootly
A hosted incident management and on-call platform that runs incident response inside Slack and other chat tools.
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.
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
Prometheus Alertmanager
A server that deduplicates, groups and routes alerts from Prometheus to email, PagerDuty and other receivers.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
Keep
A self-hostable, open-source alert management platform that deduplicates, correlates and routes alerts.
