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IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (4th)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
100
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (3rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (4th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and PagerDuty Operations Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is designed for Event Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 7.4%, down 9.2% compared to last year.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 7.6% mindshare, down 22.2% since last year.
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus7.4%
SCOM9.3%
OpenText AI Operations Management8.3%
Other75.0%
Event Monitoring
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud7.6%
Opsgenie5.8%
Everbridge IT Alerting4.9%
Other81.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmed Salman - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company
Aids in network performance monitoring and management
I am working as a customer, mainly using IntelliQ and another product, IBM NetCool, Watson AI. These products are used for monitoring network performance and management.  The primary use case involves network performance monitoring, and it is compatible only with IBM DB2 IBM Tivoli NetCool…
reviewer2879727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Unified incident response has reduced alert noise and improves on-call focus and coordination
PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its noise reduction by making deduplication and suppression more automated instead of manually tuned, and the service dependency graph could be more intuitive with cleaner visuals and easier-to-understand root cause tracing during major incidents. Automation could go further with smarter runbook triggers and AI-driven suggestions to help find root causes, which could save a lot of time for engineers who are struggling to understand what is actually happening. These AI capabilities could lower the time by maybe 50–60%. Analytics and reporting could be more flexible, allowing custom dashboards and filters and team-level MTTA and MTTR breakdowns, so that it is segregated based on teams and it is much easier to have custom dashboards for the teams to understand more. Alert storms were a recurring frustration for the on-call team, and escalation overrides and service dependency graphs can get a bit confusing in larger environments. More customizable analytics and smarter automation would make the platform even easier, more flexible and more powerful for the team to understand. PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its analytics flexibility with customized dashboards and AI capabilities to be more trained and more reliable. Service dependency mapping can also feel cluttered in big environments, making it harder to trace upstream and downstream impacts during bigger incidents. We implemented PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI to help with alert grouping and early incident insights, but accuracy was not consistent enough to rely on during critical events. It occasionally grouped unrelated alerts or missed correlations, which limited the operational efficiency gains we expected. The on-call team still depended heavily on manual triage because AI suggestions were not always aligned with the real root cause. Overall, AI added some value but it has not yet reached the reliability needed to significantly improve the incident response efficiency. It needs more training or more work.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Overall, this is a great tool and one that I recommend but it depends on the cost."
"It's good for managed systems. The end query on the user interface is good. You can view lots of charts and graphs."
"This is an amazing product and you will fall in love with it."
"The most valuable feature is the event management capability."
"It is customer-centric; customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event, with no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment."
"OMNIbus is valuable for its compatibility and performance, as I haven't encountered any performance issues."
"The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus supports legacy protocols like CORBA, Huawei, and other telecom protocols, which I find beneficial."
"My advice to others looking into using PagerDuty Operations Cloud is that it is one of the best tools in the market for production support and SRE engineers."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud delivers very high performance when notifying users, especially in high-frequency trading environments where even a second of delay can result in billion or trillion dollar transaction losses."
"PagerDuty is of central importance to the continued smooth function of my company and its IT-related infrastructure and applications."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted my organization by enabling faster issue response, which helped reduce downtime, saved revenue by avoiding long outages, improved team accountability during incidents, reduced manual effort in handling alerts, and helped maintain a better customer experience."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted my organization by providing effectiveness and efficiency in the way we work, with less alert fatigue, meaning alerts are rarely missed."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted our organization by ensuring that our banking applications, which operate 24/7, remain functional and efficient, contributing to better service availability."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has improved our incident management process by ensuring that the right set of people are notified within time."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the flexibility of the schedule. The mobile app is quite also good for what we do: for receiving alerts, acknowledging, assigning, adding new responders. It has rich features for our needs."
 

Cons

"There should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which complicates licensing."
"IBM support is a bust; Zenoss support is good."
"Its technical support team takes longer to reply."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
"The solution has limitations in database integration as it cannot integrate with databases other than IBM DB2."
"Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI."
"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"Its integration could be better. They should provide an easier integration for all the monitoring stuff, and it will make things easier for us. Currently, there is a complexity in integrating it with a vendor application, and we have to use another tool to integrate it with a vendor application. To integrate some applications with NetCool, I need to install an IBM tool on top of it. It would be good if they can provide an API or any kind of interface that we can leverage while developing a new protocol interface or application. We should be able to use an API or interface with NetCool. Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI. Whenever we do anything on the GUI, it takes time. They need to focus on the GUI part, especially the dashboard. They should focus on how users can effectively drill down from one box to another. The visual appeal of the dashboard is as important as the data and functionality."
"The learning curve for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a bit steep, with its complicated rules and schedules, and we have to dedicate a proper team to use that tool."
"Some of the UX needs some help for better flow of actions - however I can understand the reasoning behind how some of the UI is laid and how you need to go an extra step to trigger actions."
"Even though PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a strong platform, many things can be improved."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"I can evaluate the effectiveness of PagerDuty Operations Cloud in providing insights for decision-making, and I rate it around seven out of ten."
"The solution's analytics are okay. I don't think the features, at this point, give you a lot of insights."
"The product can be improved by including out-of-the-box integration with other standard tools used in our fields such as Confluence, and Jira."
"The main thing is that sometimes we receive some alerts continuously, which may be noisy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its license cost is a little bit more than other solutions. Our customers expect a standard market price that is comparative to other products. For each and every NetCool OMNIbus component, we have to purchase a separate license. These components are not free with the product."
"You have to have the right level of budget to afford this solution."
"It is a costly solution."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
"The price is very high."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Performing Arts
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise79
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
I would rate the pricing for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus as three, where one is a high price and ten is a low price.
What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
Based on my experience and my colleagues' feedback, IBM can improve IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus in automation with respect to using AI, as it lacks considerably compared to other tools. The integrat...
What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
My current use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is for monitoring the networks.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
I am not current on what the current pricing is for PagerDuty Operations Cloud, but I assume it is per seat and per responder.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
The users would complain that they always had a hard time maintaining their schedules, their escalations, and installing the app. I got a lot of complaints from the people that responded to pages r...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
The usual use cases for PagerDuty Operations Cloud include incident management. I ran the infrastructure teams and SRE, so the primary use case was incident management and spinning up RCAs, trackin...
 

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Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
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