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Everbridge IT Alerting vs Opsgenie comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Everbridge IT Alerting
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Opsgenie
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Everbridge IT Alerting is 5.5%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Opsgenie is 7.5%, down from 14.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Opsgenie7.5%
Everbridge IT Alerting5.5%
Other87.0%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2405115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Business Continuity & Resilience at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Provides good detection and escalation features to reduce downtime
We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any tool, you need to adapt it to the organization to be suitable for managing specific situations. When we did the analysis, Everbridge IT Alerting was one of the main products in the markets adapted to our organization's expectations. Currently, we are using it for a different aspect. Overall, the solution gives a better understanding of the incident response aspect. It helps manage that kind of situation. The solution's detection and escalation features are crucial in reducing downtime. The solution's automation capabilities help quickly identify the right members and skills. Everbridge IT Alerting is deployed on the cloud in our organization. We tried to make the solution more independent. However, we tried one or two integrations, and they went well. You need to have the right skills to integrate the solution with other tools. I would recommend the solution to other users based on their industry and business requirements. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Pramodh M - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Offers different levels of notification options, including WhatsApp integration
Opsgenie has been most valuable in managing our incident response. We use Opsgenie for on-call management of AWS services, and its integration with CloudWatch has been particularly beneficial. Opsgenie alerts us to anomalies in cloud services, not just incidents but also performance issues like delayed response times or execution errors. So, we will quickly know about the issue, and it allows us to take swift action. It has been very helpful to us. Opsgenie's strength lies in its configurable alerting levels, from first responders to escalation managers. It offers different levels of notification options, including WhatsApp integration, ensuring timely alerts to the relevant team members. We also use the on-call scheduling feature. It is easy to use. The on-call scheduling feature is user-friendly and easily integrates with our existing systems, streamlining schedule management without added complexity.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has proved very useful, particularly because we have a GSOC that's not technically 24/7, and if something happens, they can easily send Everbridge a notification to activate the team off hours."
"It's a lot easier to create and manage schedules, especially in comparison to the on-call scheduling creation in ServiceNow. That has always been something of a bear to operate. We've found it's a lot simpler in Everbridge."
"Everbridge has managed to actually reduce that to under three minutes, and even in my new company our engagement time is sitting right around three minutes to engage personnel to a critical outage."
"Email Ingestion - Having the ability for ticket generation to auto-generate an incident through Everbridge has saved my team hundreds of man-hours it would have taken to manually create them."
"Valuable features include incident management and ease of integrations."
"Everbridge IT Alerting accelerated the time to engage with our IT support staff."
"Our mean time to restore, or mean time to repair, has diminished by a couple of percentage points, saving the company upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year."
"The response time is real-time alerting. It is very helpful, because it makes things a lot easier. All we have to do is put a circle around a geo-fence and shoot off a message."
"The solution has helped us stay alert on incidents and improved our response times."
"The integration feature is the most valuable. It provides a lot of customizations for the integrations we use."
"Regarding advice, it is a good tool, and the integration is seamless."
"Opsgenie integrates with Atlassian and other web monitoring and incident management tools."
"One of the reasons for implementing OpsGenie was to have a completely automated system where there is no need to monitor and call someone if something breaks down."
"This is a scalable solution. I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability."
"The product is integrated into almost all services, including Grafana, AWS, and others."
"We can rely on the product to organize our schedules. We don't have to think about who will be next on-call. The system already gives us the answer. We don't have to waste time organizing how people are going to be covering each of their rotations. There's also an override option. So, it's easy to reschedule or reorganize our schedules when someone goes on vacation or when someone is on sick leave."
 

Cons

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"The integration with other solutions needs improvement... Due to issues with the libraries provided by Everbridge, we have not been able to integrate IT Alerting with our incident management tool."
"The ability to not have to worry about the IT alerting and calendar resources. I would like it to be simpler in the sense of a different cost structure."
"The incident templates can get complex and hard to troubleshoot, so it helps to focus on keeping it simple."
"The GUI is a little tough to navigate. It's not very straightforward when someone is trying to change schedules."
"With their templates, you can only have a maximum of three phases: new, updated, and resolved. It's not always that easy when we open up a call, that we identify who we need, page out, and we're good. A lot of time it requires multiple page-outs. Being restricted to those three phases, there's no way to say, "I want this variable to be persistent, and this one to not be." ...I would like to see a bit more flexibility and tighter control over the templates and the variables you can create."
"It does have a pretty steep learning curve, especially if you're trying to parse information, instead of just sending it raw."
"It is definitely scalable. It just gets expensive."
"OpsGenie needs to keep up with its competitors in terms of new features and pricing."
"In a future release, we would like to receive alerts when a specific threshold is reached and to escalate the reason for that alert."
"I would like to see improvements in reporting capabilities that could provide additional value."
"The solution has room for improvement by providing bundle pricing with other products that are frequently used together from Atlassian."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see a little bit more work in API key management in the Opsgenie UI. It's a bit difficult to manage sometimes. For example, in terms of management, you can either see all the keys or none of the keys. This is something for which I would like to have better granularity so that I could give some people access to some of the keys. It's something that I don't have today if I'm not mistaken."
"They could introduce many more features, which we believe is on their roadmap."
"Typically, the alerts are vague at times, and when the automated callers begin reading that alert, it does not make sense to us."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For us, the pricing is a good value. I can't say whether or not their list pricing looks favorable to everyone who's checking, but I can say that the process of sourcing and procurement with them was very professional, comfortable, and friendly. The negotiations were done well on both sides, and in the end, I'd say the price was very effective... I think that people will find that Everbridge is a great listener and is willing to meet in the middle."
"We thought the base product was pretty reasonable. It can pricey once you start adding stuff on."
"The annual cost is $125,000 USD. That is for everything. It includes the 11,000 mass notifications. Technically, we have 500 licenses for IT Alerting."
"Their pricing is a good value and very reasonable. They are very upfront about their pricing. There is nothing confusing about it."
"Everbridge IT Alerting is a cost-efficient solution."
"As far as I'm aware, there are no costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing was under $25 a month per user. We had about 1,000 defined users."
"Their call structure is based on how many people are IT alert people and who is on the calendar, and the cost will be driven by those numbers versus if you are using it for the non-IT alert. As you look at the competition and other vendors, make sure you truly understand your cost structure with them."
"The pricing is fine. I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with one being high price and ten being low price."
"Integration with other solutions is one of the most valuable features of Opsgenie."
"In the company I'm working for, currently, we are using the standard edition of Opsgenie. We're paying around $3,000 a month. It's a bit expensive compared to the other tools we use for different purposes. We find it a bit expensive because although Opsgenie is a complete tool for monitoring, it does not provide us with everything."
"From the pricing perspective, they are on the higher side as compared to other competitors."
"I'm not the person who dealt with Opsgenie in terms of pricing, and I don't know how the solution compares to other solutions in the market, price-wise. I won't be able to say if it gives you the best value for money or not, but if Opsgenie gives good value for money, then I don't see a reason why you shouldn't use it."
"The pricing is on the lower side; I would rate it a six out of ten, with ten being low price, which indicates good affordability."
"We have opted for a yearly subscription. The initial quote given was about $29, but I don't know the actual price. There might be some negotiations during renewal."
"The cost of the solution depends on the package you select and is per user."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Performing Arts
13%
Transportation Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise22
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Everbridge IT Alerting?
The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced.
What advice do you have for others considering Everbridge IT Alerting?
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