We performed a comparison between PagerDuty Operations Cloud and Serviceaide ChangeGear based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about PagerDuty, Atlassian, Everbridge and others in IT Alerting and Incident Management."The most valuable features of PagerDuty are customization, access, policies, and different rules regarding the path of escalation. Additionally, it's easy to use and create overrides. For example, if you all are on a call for one week each, but somebody wants to go on PTO, the team needs to swap shifts in PagerDuty. This is easy to do by creating overrides to switch up the set schedules. It's very user-friendly in that aspect. It works well for monitoring and alerting."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"PagerDuty's best features are the dedicated application that allows me to reach my engineers immediately and the ability to directly assign specific tasks to individuals and have them report back."
"It reduces the amount of white noise. If something comes through, then it will alert somebody. However, if it's a bit of white noise that comes through at night, then it gets dealt with the next day. Everything is visible to everybody. It's not just a single person getting an SMS, then going, "Oh, I'm not going to worry about that." The visibility to everybody on the team is one of the great things about it because it reduces the white noise."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable."
"The product has valuable on-call scheduling, escalation, and incident workflow management features."
"The solution is a highly mature product. Because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
"Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave (or something), you can't just go in and reassign/take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in. You have to go into each of the rosters and take them out. There might be a roster for business hours, after hours rotation, and monitoring deployments. Each time we need to take an engineer out of the pool, e.g., if they're sick or on leave, then we have to go and touch all of those rosters, updating and replacing them. Whereas, if we could just take the person out and have it automatically fill in the rostering, then that would make life a lot easier for managing it."
"This solution works best in conjunction with a proper logging system, which can be an additional cost to organizations."
"They could include incident merging and alert grouping features in the product."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"I am not a direct end user of PagerDuty. It's hard to consider its shortcomings in that sense."
"The solution's analytics are okay. I don't think the features, at this point, give you a lot of insights. We have actually been trying to get insights from it but it hasn't really given us a lot of extra points to explore. We were looking at the number of alerts to see where many of the alerts were coming from. We never managed to get many insights on this."
"I would like the UI to be more intuitive. I would like to be able to group or color-code the discoveries. When you create a system, you have a listing of all the different configurations. You can list them by teams, but some additional color coding would be helpful. I would break it down by incident controls. In other words, it should be broken down it into response teams and engineering divisions."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
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PagerDuty Operations Cloud is ranked 1st in IT Alerting and Incident Management with 35 reviews while Serviceaide ChangeGear is ranked 31st in IT Service Management (ITSM). PagerDuty Operations Cloud is rated 8.8, while Serviceaide ChangeGear is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of PagerDuty Operations Cloud writes "Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Serviceaide ChangeGear writes "Reduced the Service Desk effectiveness compared to the product we were using". PagerDuty Operations Cloud is most compared with Opsgenie, ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Splunk On-Call and Everbridge IT Alerting, whereas Serviceaide ChangeGear is most compared with ServiceNow and Zoho Desk.
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