What is our primary use case?
I started as a user working in an operations team where we handled the AWS infrastructure deployed for a particular company. Whenever any issue occurred, we received pages using PagerDuty Operations Cloud. I gradually learned about PagerDuty Operations Cloud and started integrating it into different workflows. I began integrating it to make Slack bots, and right now I am using PagerDuty Operations Cloud API endpoints to make AI agents as well. I can think of myself as an integration engineer who works extensively with integrating different services, one of which is PagerDuty Operations Cloud.
I also use xMatters alongside PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Speaking from an integrations engineer's perspective, I have not integrated xMatters heavily, but I have been a user of xMatters more lately. The major difference I observed was the workflow management. xMatters has better workflow management than PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Let me explain what I mean by workflow management. If you have a company with ten teams working on a particular product, every member of those teams may or may not receive a page. Every member should have an orchestrator where they can define custom rules such as a service should be paged directly to X team, or if a page comes from ABC issue, it should directly go to Y team without having me to manually put the team name or team details regarding where to page. This capability is lacking in PagerDuty Operations Cloud while in xMatters, it is flawlessly integrated where you can add custom rules and custom rule sets. In PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we have to create separate pages for that functionality. However, when I talk about integration, the xMatters API toolkit is confusing and disorganized. The tree structure is not present in xMatters, but I appreciate that about PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Integration-wise, PagerDuty Operations Cloud is flawless. I love PagerDuty Operations Cloud from an integration perspective, but it makes my life difficult if someone wants me to integrate xMatters.
What is most valuable?
I appreciate the overall API toolkit very much. It is one of the simplest API toolkits I have seen that lets me do literally anything via API calls, which I can essentially do via the browser. I do not even need to log into my browser to do anything if I have a CLI or any tools integrated with it.
I have built an AI agent which detects if any page comes into PagerDuty Operations Cloud. PagerDuty Operations Cloud has webhooks, which is great. If anything comes into PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I basically poll every detail of that page, perform some incident resolution, and do something on the infrastructure according to whatever page I receive. I add comments in the pages via PagerDuty Operations Cloud API and then do the whole incident life cycle using all the APIs. There is also a very good Python library called PDPYRAS, which I use extensively, which uses PagerDuty Operations Cloud APIs to build SDK. I have developed my own CLI toolkit using PagerDuty Operations Cloud APIs itself, which is on my GitHub.
The UI is good and looks good, but sometimes when pages come very frequently, such as receiving ten to fifteen pages per five to ten seconds, it works flawlessly. However, when you tie your PagerDuty Operations Cloud instance to very large-scale infrastructure where you have millions of instances and get at least five to ten pages per second, the UI starts to hang. The API works flawlessly even then, but if someone does not know how to use all the integrations that PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides, they have only one choice but to log into the UI and check for the pages. Then they will have to face the lag in the UI.
Integration is very easy. I have completed entire integrations, deployments, and testing within six hours. It is just so easy.
One person can do everything end to end on their own. I have done it multiple times, and I have seen other people doing it multiple times as well. Everything is very seamless. I should also appreciate the official documentation that you have. Usually official documentation is not that good, but yours feels like someone has taken time to write those documents. The commands which you have written for back-end integration are straightforward. I literally have to just copy and paste after setting environment variables.
What needs improvement?
I believe you really need to work on your UI. The UI is good and looks good, but when pages come very frequently, such as receiving ten to fifteen pages per five to ten seconds, it works flawlessly. However, when you tie your PagerDuty Operations Cloud instance to very large-scale infrastructure where you have millions of instances and get at least five to ten pages per second, the UI starts to hang. The API works flawlessly even then, but if someone does not know how to use all the integrations that PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides, they have only one choice but to log into the UI and check for the pages. Then they will have to face the lag in the UI. This is the area where I feel improvements are needed.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud does require a fair amount of maintenance. Many incidents go into triage and need to be regularly cleaned up. If an incident comes for which we have not set rules to auto acknowledge and close, it basically stays in the triage and we have to manually clean it up. I think an auto-detection mechanism can be implemented out of the box. Because it is not there currently, we have to develop modules around that. An alternative would be webhooks that you can come up with which we can utilize to implement this out of the box.
The only lag I have experienced is the UI lag that I have already described.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using PagerDuty Operations Cloud for more than five years now.
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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is scalable. I have not faced any issues with scalability. It is pretty good when it comes to scalability.
How are customer service and support?
I have contacted support multiple times.
There are ticket levels which we can create. I have not called the support team on the phone, but I have mailed and raised tickets with them. There have been instances where I had to integrate a very old server, AIX server framework to PagerDuty Operations Cloud for which the modules were not present in PagerDuty Operations Cloud. I am not blaming them for this; I am blaming the company who are using AIX servers. However, they did not have the module, so I had to raise a ticket. It was around Severity 3. The response was not super fast, which is expected. However, as soon as it escalated to Severity 2, I received an immediate email from PagerDuty Operations Cloud team. I think the support is fine. I have faced just one time some inconvenience. I do not know what was the reason, but there was one time where I did not receive any response for two days. Thank goodness it was not a Severity 1 incident for us, but two days was unacceptable at that point. Hence we started looking at other products including xMatters. There has been just one instance, but the company which I work with, even one instance sometimes causes a lot of friction. People start looking at other options. However, there has been just once.
How was the initial setup?
Integration is very easy. I have completed entire integrations, deployments, and testing within six hours. It is just so easy.
What about the implementation team?
One person can do everything end to end on their own. I have done it multiple times, and I have seen other people doing it multiple times as well. Everything is very seamless. I should also appreciate the official documentation that you have. Usually official documentation is not that good, but yours feels like someone has taken time to write those documents. The commands which you have written for back-end integration are straightforward. I literally have to just copy and paste after setting environment variables. Everything is very easy.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I use xMatters alongside PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Speaking from an integrations engineer's perspective, I have not integrated xMatters heavily, but I have been a user of xMatters more lately. The major difference I observed was the workflow management. The workflow management in xMatters is better than PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Let me explain what I mean by workflow management. If you have a company with ten teams working on a particular product, every member of those teams may or may not receive a page. Every member should have an orchestrator where they can define custom rules such as a service should be paged directly to X team, or if a page comes from ABC issue, it should directly go to Y team without having me to manually put the team name or team details regarding where to page. This capability is lacking in PagerDuty Operations Cloud while in xMatters, it is flawlessly integrated where you can add custom rules and custom rule sets. In PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we have to create separate pages for that functionality. However, when I talk about integration, the xMatters API toolkit is confusing and disorganized. The tree structure is not present in xMatters, but I appreciate that about PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Integration-wise, PagerDuty Operations Cloud is flawless. I love PagerDuty Operations Cloud from an integration perspective, but it makes my life difficult if someone wants me to integrate xMatters.
What other advice do I have?
Regarding pricing, I do not remember the current prices, but I used the first tier about two years back for one of the startup failures which I was working on. That startup did not work out, but I integrated PagerDuty Operations Cloud with a lot of things there.
For the enterprise and for large-scale enterprises, the pricing is good. I will not even say it is fine; it is good for large-scale enterprises. However, for small-scale startups and small businesses, because they already are in a very nascent stage, the pricing is a little on the higher side. There is no custom module which I can just add to my cart which gets me custom pricing. It is just one bucket. For small-scale operations, I think the pricing is a bit pricey.
I do not use PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI assistant, but I integrate the back-end to create agents. I do not use their default ones. I have never used it, and I do not know how good or bad that is. I am integrating PagerDuty Operations Cloud modules, APIs, and SDKs to develop AI agents, not using anything which comes out of the box.
My overall review rating for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.