PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs xMatters comparison

PagerDuty and Everbridge are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. PagerDuty is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5, while Everbridge is ranked #11. PagerDuty holds a 11.0% mindshare in IMS, compared to Everbridge’s 5.5% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of PagerDuty users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Everbridge users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

PagerDuty Operations Cloud and xMatters are prominent in the incident management sector, offering competitive solutions focused on notification and escalation. PagerDuty seems to have an edge with its automatic incident escalation and versatile notification methods, while xMatters is favored for its seamless ITSM integration, reducing incident resolution times.

Features: PagerDuty offers automatic incident escalation, detailed alert customization, and diverse notification methods, which users value for reliability and flexibility across various platforms. The system's high-level notification capabilities are appreciated for ensuring critical alerts are never missed. xMatters is integrated with ITSM solutions, offering fine-tuned on-call schedule management and automation that enhance incident response efficiency. These features significantly improve communication workflows and reduce manual intervention, benefiting large-scale operations.

Room for Improvement: PagerDuty users desire better noise suppression and more extensive integrations with standard tools like Jira and Confluence. The complex interface for managing escalation policies is also a noted concern. xMatters needs a more flexible pricing model, and users report challenges with integrating custom attributes and dynamic teams. Both products could enhance reporting and logging capabilities to provide more insightful data analysis.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PagerDuty supports diverse hosting options and is praised for smooth deployment and responsive support, covering public and private clouds, as well as on-prem solutions. xMatters, often deployed in private or hybrid clouds, also enjoys high ratings for customer service, with minimal direct support needed due to efficient internal procedures. Both platforms have reputations for delivering high-quality technical support.

Pricing and ROI: PagerDuty's structured licensing and flexible pricing offer good ROI, though the cost is seen as steep by some due to limited tiers. In contrast, xMatters provides scalable licensing, enabling cost alignment with real service needs despite being considered pricey. Both solutions contribute to measurable ROI through efficient incident management and enhanced operational continuity, depending on how their pricing models meet organizational requirements.

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Categories and Ranking

PagerDuty Operations Cloud

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (5th), AIOps (6th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)

xMatters

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

11th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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 PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 11.0%, down from 20.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of xMatters is 5.5%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud	11.0%
xMatters	5.5%
Other	83.5%

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Nambi Srinivasan

Senior SRE at IBM

Automated incident workflows have transformed on-call operations and improved response times

Since I host our internal services, I want more customization relating to our specific use case. The needed improvements include the configuration process, as new team members face a steep learning curve to understand the platform. With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users. Additionally, I feel the web interface requires improvements. I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows. The primary reasons for rating it an eight include the complex configuration which makes it challenging for new users, as well as their difficulty in setting up advanced runbook workflows and managing complex on-call setups. The web user interface also requires improvement. Although I receive alerts via the mobile app, which is beneficial for handling schedule maintenance, the same features should be added to the web interface. Customization issues persist, such as the inability to clone entire schedules as part of the workflows, and I want to keep incidents open for a specified duration, neither of which I can currently customize. Thus, I raised a ticket with PagerDuty Operations Cloud to address these concerns. Furthermore, the cost is high, making it one of the more expensive incident management solutions.

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reviewer1855452

Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps in ensuring that everyone gets notified when needed, and provides the flexibility to integrate it and build what we want on top of it

They recently released an incident module that allows users, or at least teams, to track major incidents and other things, and you can send out communication via that one webpage. You can engage on-call teams and communicate to stakeholders as well, but one thing that is missing there is a group chat. If there is a group chat on the same webpage that all of the support teams could use, it would be a one-stop shop that all of the major incident managers would use as their product to manage a major incident. Without that, at the moment, they are mainly referring to teams and then adding data into xMatters as and when they can. Some of the workflow development work that we do for the in-house piece can be quite complicated if you don't have experience using the tool. You have to have to go through the documentation, but I suppose that's an expectation. When users first log on and they're configuring the rotas, it does take them a bit of time to get their heads around how to configure the shifts. Some of them do need guidance. We have got a support document, and xMatters also has a support page where they can go and read through the details. Our roles and access for each user are locked down, as opposed to just letting them access the xMatters portal because it can add more confusion because the support portal explains that they can do X, Y, and Z. So, we're removing that ability, but once the users get their head around how to configure the rotas, the overall intuitiveness of the UI is pretty good. It is simple and clean, and they don't have to do that many steps. There are probably one or two group supervisors that configure the rotas, and the rest of them log on. We've already pre-populated the contact details from our directory, so usually, they'll just go and add a personal device, if they do want to get called on a personal device, or they want to set up the app, which is pretty easy using the QR codes. The product looks nice and clean. The only thing is that it takes a little bit of work to get your head around the rotas, but once you do, it's pretty darn simple.

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Pros

"The best thing that we've had is that we get alerted before things happen rather than after the customer's having a problem or notices the problem."

"The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls."

"The most valuable thing I appreciate about PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the escalation process, where it automatically escalates incidents."

"The product easily integrates with other solutions."

"Now, we don't have to think about it; we can simply set it up in PagerDuty and it works, with the escalation and everything still functioning reliably based on the configuration we set up six months to one year ago."

"I'd rate the solution ten out of ten."

"The best features that PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers are that it is user-friendly, the design is scalable, and it is quite easy to use for a newbie as well."

"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."

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"For our major incident management, it has expanded what we can do in terms of the format of the communication. People can subscribe, and they can receive delivery on multiple platforms, whether it's a voice message, email, or mobile app message. It enables us to deliver the right communication to the right people in the format they want."

"Being able to split the week however we want is definitely most valuable. We can create shifts and also see other teams' schedules. It is a very easy search to do these things."

"The most valuable feature is the automation because it reduces the demand on resources."

"The most valuable feature is getting alerts out to my user base. xMatters is the only solution that I know that has robust scheduling, calendaring for groups, and that provides very good delineation of who gets alerted and on which devices they receive their alerts."

"Since we implemented xMatters, getting someone working on the call has gone from 30 to 35 minutes to about five minutes, which has made a massive impact on our organization."

"We use xMatters for alarming infrastructure outages and failures of batch jobs (post-processing)."

"It has reduced the time to engage engineers, which leads to improved ticket resolution and ultimately to improved service provision for our clients, with our systems down for less time because the engineers are engaged much faster."

"Since I've been here, problems get resolved faster because of xMatters' automated notifications and the ease of use, people can send out notifications and get together faster to solve problems."

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Cons

"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."

"They need to sort out the date / time function when the time zones switch over from Normal to Daylight savings, and vise versa."

"PagerDuty Operations Cloud needs improvement in several areas, including the high price for small teams and companies."

"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."

"They could include incident merging and alert grouping features in the product."

"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."

"One suggestion for improving PagerDuty Operations Cloud is to provide more insights about incidents, such as root cause analysis or additional information, which could assist SRE teams in reducing remediation time and incident detection before jumping on a call."

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"One of the main reasons why we don't use xMatters for monitoring and alerting is that it doesn't use the rota to call the person who's on-call. It doesn't look up the rota to find out who's on-call and then contacts that person directly. I am not sure if this has changed now, but the last time we checked, this functionality wasn't there. This is one of the main improvements. We're happy with the rest of it."

"We cannot go back in time to check out the previous schedules that we had. We can only see them moving forward. I wish we were able to go back and see the previous schedules that we had. That's the biggest thing."

"Some of the workflow development work that we do for the in-house piece can be quite complicated if you don't have experience using the tool."

"What I would like it to do is tell me anytime there is a P1 incident, except when the ticket is assigned to this team or when this word is in the summary, but there is no exclusion option."

"The REST API is still missing some important functionality, which we require."

"I would like some minor UI changes."

"We would like to see the integration between our ITSM solution and xMatters."

"However, they could be clearer with the actual throughput and the costs. The throughput that we signed up for was a lot lower than what we needed, and we had to pay a lot more to get the throughput that we needed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."

"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."

"The cost is based on the package you select."

"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."

"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."

"The price is very high."

"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."

"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."

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"The pricing is too high... we procured 150 licenses and we have almost 1,500 users in IT. We had to come up with a few ideas for determining which users get a license and which users don't need one. Due to the limitation of the number of licenses, we were unable to integrate the user profiles with Active Directory."

"xMatters shortens the time to resolution, so the amount saved in potential lost revenue and productivity has justified the cost for our organization."

"I would definitely say it's worth the value. I wouldn't say it's expensive, but most people who pick xMatters are not going to select xMatters based on price. There are other lower-priced competitors that are out there. But I would say for what we're getting, it's worth the money."

"Licensing varies widely, depending on usage. It can be cheap or quite expensive, depending on volume and features."

"If the licensing were cheaper, our customer might buy more."

"I'm not really involved with the cost standpoint. I've only heard rumors of how much it costs, and if it costs what I think it costs, its cost is very high as compared to a lot of other tools that we're using here. It seems on the higher end from a cost standpoint."

"It is worth the cost. You need to know the number of users that are going to use it, which is usually pretty easy to calculate. It's on a per-user license."

"If you are willing to pay for the licensing of it, it is able to scale out."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Performing Arts

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Performing Arts

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	42

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?

The setup cost and pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud are very cost-effective, but I have a suggestion: if PagerDuty could provide a trial version for individual users, rather than just corpora...

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What needs improvement with PagerDuty?

I do not have anything that I dislike about PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Sometimes it hangs and occasionally I am unable to open PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which occurs due to an outage or similar ...

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What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?

The major part of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is for communication and pinging people and engaging them and pulling them into the call.

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Overview

PagerDuty Operations Cloud specializes in incident management and alert automation, with integration to 700+ platforms, reducing resolution time and manual workloads through AI-driven features and automated alerts.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a robust tool for automated incident management, integrating seamlessly with platforms like ServiceNow, Datadog, New Relic, and AWS. It provides AI-driven alert grouping, customizable escalation policies, and multiple notification methods, including SMS and mobile apps. Despite its intricate interface and cost concerns, it significantly enhances reliability and response times. Users utilize it for shift scheduling and automated responses via webhooks, optimizing operational management and improving reaction to high-severity alerts.

What are the key features of PagerDuty Operations Cloud?

Incident Management: Streamlines the handling of incidents to reduce resolution time.
Alert Automation: Automates alerts across 700+ platforms to enhance efficiency.
AI-Driven Alert Grouping: Uses AI to group alerts, reducing noise.
Customizable Escalation Policies: Allows users to define their own escalation processes.
Multiple Notification Methods: Supports alert notifications via SMS, calls, and apps.
Integration: Works with tools like ServiceNow, Datadog, New Relic, and AWS.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Reduced Manual Workloads: Automates tasks to save time.
Improved Response Times: Alerts and automations facilitate quicker responses.
Enhanced Reliability: Ensures systems are more dependable through effective management.
Operational Efficiency: AI capabilities lead to better workload optimization.

Organizations, especially in IT and DevOps, find PagerDuty Operations Cloud beneficial for automated incident management. Integrating with platforms such as Slack and cloud providers, it aids in efficient incident handling. Teams use it for monitoring and resolving critical issues effectively, leveraging webhooks and notifications to maintain operational efficiency.

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xMatters provides robust automated notifications and incident management, enhancing alerting and critical IT incident handling with seamless integrations, ensuring timely communications.

xMatters is designed for efficient incident management and streamlined IT alerting. It offers flexibility through integrations with ServiceNow, Slack, and others, enhancing communication and workflow management during critical events. Users highlight the SaaS model, customizable on-call scheduling, and effective communication tools. These features reduce incident response times, enhance message delivery, and support team collaboration across platforms.

What features make xMatters stand out?

REST API Automation: Facilitates seamless integration and automation.
Intuitive UI: Simplifies the user experience for managing workflows.
Workflow Builder: Enhances customization for incident processes.
Integration Flexibility: Supports various tools like ServiceNow and Slack.
Customizable Scheduling: Offers tailored on-call schedules and escalation paths.
Automated Notifications: Streamlines incident response times.
Robust Logging: Ensures reliability in tracking system activities.
Device Management: Offers comprehensive control over notification devices.
Self-Service Capabilities: Empowers users in managing their alerts and settings.
Conference Bridging: Facilitates communication during incident resolution.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Enhanced by seamless integrations.
Improved Incident Response: Driven by automated notification and escalation pathways.
User Empowerment: Through self-service and device management features.
Accessibility: Enabled by a SaaS-based infrastructure.
Collaboration: Boosted through messaging and conference features.

xMatters supports industries in managing IT incidents and emergency notifications. Teams prioritize alerts, maintain on-call schedules, and automate response workflows, particularly integrating with tools like ServiceNow for critical event handling. Its application in infrastructure monitoring and proactive engagement is notable across sectors.

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Sample Customers

40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast

Over 2.7 million users trust xMatters daily at successful startups and global giants including athenahealth, BMC Software, Box, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, Experian, NVIDIA, ViaSat and Vodafone. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, California and has offices worldwide. Visit our website to see how business like yours found solutions with xMatters.

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