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 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."

"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."

"It is stable, it is rapidly growing, and all the features are being built in a stable way for the users to work with."

"PagerDuty has replaced that ability to contact somebody in case of emergency without fail."

"While using PagerDuty hasn't resulted in a decrease in issues, it has allowed us, in combination with the monitoring systems, to know about issues before customers are alerting us."

"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted our organization by reducing our downtime significantly, increasing revenue with a high percentage of growth, strengthening and stabilizing our relationship with clients, making clients happy and ready to extend our contracts, and reducing the workload and stress on teams."

"The product easily integrates with other solutions."

"With the multiple methods of notification and the escalation policies, we can always be certain that someone will get the message."

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"The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the entire alert notification configuration, having an external system to trigger events that will process the alert to the supporting team. If a system is down, then you need to get it attention. Sometimes, it cannot wait until the next day. Therefore, how xMatters provides this type of integration is critical."

"By adding the ServiceNow integration, we have been able to page support groups for critical incidents and move scheduling from ServiceNow into xMatters, offering more control to our support groups."

"The automated callouts, without a doubt, are most valuable. They have been a huge gain for our company. Previous to xMatters, there was no real management of the on-call resources or rotas. So, having that centralized and automated has been a huge gain."

"That automation is the critical aspect of xMatters. Without those workflows, then we would have a system that maintains an on-call schedule in Excel. So xMatters provides the notification workflow and ensures you're notifying the right person at the right time."

"One of the things that really attracted me is in workflows, you can write your own custom steps in JavaScript. You are not restricted to the steps that they provide. If you can write it in JavaScript, you can pretty much do anything. It gives me flexibility in ways that other platforms don't. For example, the online dashboard system we use is not a widely used one, but they have an API. So, I'm able to write the JavaScript steps to do things like check if a system's in the maintenance window or create an instant on the dashboard or change the status of an instant. I'm not dependent on the dashboard provider or xMatters creating steps for me."

"The customer service is quite responsive. They are quick to answer your calls or emails."

"It has been a good journey over the last three years, getting more details about, and insights into, the product."

"Having this automated has led to a significant improvement in incident resolution time (resolution can now occur quicker than the time to previously contact the correct person)."

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Cons

"Something that needs to be improved is adding multilingual support."

"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."

"PagerDuty's webhooks need some improvement."

"To improve PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I can mention that we can improve the escalation policies. Nowadays, many people miss the alerts."

"I would like the UI to be more intuitive."

"There has been some downtime, but it did not impact the business."

"Open alerts should properly respond to SMS resolution beyond the initial alert."

"It is a very non-customizable product, so you cannot add things like root cause analysis or the classification of incidents based on the area where you are getting more incidents. For example, if you're getting a lot of database issues, that may be an are you want to probe."

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"Every customer would like a free ride, of course, and being a customer, I definitely feel the pricing is too high."

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

"As an agent, as someone who is on call, I can mark an absence time and I can optionally put somebody in my place, but once you've done that, you can't edit it."

"The only thing that has caught us out a little bit is that on certain screens, you don't have the same admin options. There should be more consistency with the admin options because not all screens provide you with the same options. As an administrator, it feels like they should always be there. For example, on some screens, there is an Export button that provides fantastic, detail-rich exports, which obviously are very handy because then you can, as an administrator, do your administration, and extract what has been done to share with or prove to others. However, the Export button is not always present, and on the screens where it isn't, you miss it. You're like, "Oh, where's the Export button?", which can be quite problematic. There should be more consistency in the UI in terms of available options for anything that is referenced data or configurable. If you can put it in, there should be a way to run an export function to essentially pull it out. That's the only improvement that I can really think of."

"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."

"We have had outages with the product. We have experienced functionality (defects), such as conference bridges can only be opened for four hours at a time and people get kicked out."

"I would like xMatters to provide users with the capability of administering it on their own. I do a lot of hand-holding with them."

"Unfortunately, we have no way to prevent people from choosing not to receive that level of notification."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."

"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."

"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."

"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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"There's a significant difference between a full license, which allows people to respond to and acknowledge receipt of messages, and a more scaled-down license, which just allows people to see the notification. So we need to evaluate what license they need when onboarding new users because the full license is significantly more expensive."

"The cost depends very much on the company's size and usage. We're a very high use case compared to many companies, so we had to consider licensing costs carefully. If we added all our users, that would be 30,000, and that's no good; we wouldn't have been able to afford it. For example, we had to put in customization to sync across on-call users. For the license per user, the price is very reasonable and comparable to ServiceNow when factoring in everything that needs to get up and running."

"Then, in pricing, you are limited on your number of SMS messages that you can send a month and the licensing cost annually."

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

"It feels like good value in the sense that the service is excellent. The people above me who look at such things have renewed it a couple of times, and I think they would have thought whether it was good value, whether it was wildly overpriced, or whether there were better and cheaper alternatives. So, from that perspective, the pricing is fair and proper."

"I do not think it is worth the value."

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

"I don't make the decisions on the cost aspect. We haven't had any complaints. I think it has a reasonable price."

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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

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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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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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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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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