PagerDuty

PagerDuty is an operations platform for coordinating response to incidents and other mission-critical work. Its Operations Cloud combines incident management, on-call schedules, escalation policies, AIOps, automation, status pages, customer service operations, and generative/agentic AI through PagerDuty Advance. The platform connects monitoring, chat, ticketing, cloud, and business tools through more than 700 integrations, helping teams detect issues, notify responders, coordinate work, automate repeatable remediation, and review incidents after recovery. This is an enterprise operations product, not a general-purpose AI agent.

✨ Key Features

• Incident management — Orchestrate incidents from notification and triage through resolution and post-incident review.
• On-call schedules — Define rotations and ensure the right responder is notified for each service.
• Escalation policies — Route alerts through users and schedules with configurable escalation levels.
• AIOps — Correlate events, reduce alert noise, add incident context, and accelerate triage with machine learning.
• Automation and runbooks — Trigger event-driven diagnostics and remediation workflows across services and networks.
• PagerDuty Advance — Use generative and agentic AI for status updates, incident context, automation jobs, and operational work; AI actions consume plan-specific allowances or add-ons.
• Status pages — Publish internal, public, or audience-specific service status and incident communications.
• Customer Service Ops — Bridge support and engineering workflows through integrations with Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud, and ServiceNow CSM.
• Integrations and developer platform — Connect 700+ tools and extend the platform through APIs, events, and developer capabilities.
• Analytics and post-incident learning — Review operational performance, incident history, and post-incident reports to improve resilience.

💳 Pricing

• Incident Management Free — Up to five users, one schedule and one escalation policy; limited notifications, including 100 SMS/phone notifications/month.
• Incident Management Professional — US$25/user/month monthly or US$21/user/month annually. Separately purchased add-ons include AIOps, Advance, Runbook Automation, status pages and live call routing.
• PD Reliability Platform Starter — US$2,800/year platform fee, ten seats and 5,000 Signal Intelligence events.
• Essential / Plus — US$12,000/year with twenty seats and 40,000 events; US$48,000/year with forty seats and 150,000 events.
• Ultimate — Custom platform pricing; reviewed table includes 500 seats and two million events.
• Platform usage — Platform plans bundle seeded AI actions; credit packs cover additional seats, events and actions. Trial and contract terms depend on the selected product; platform fees differ from Incident Management per-user pricing.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Production outage response: Notify the correct on-call engineer, escalate when needed, and coordinate resolution.
• Alert-noise reduction: Correlate monitoring events and prioritize actionable incidents with AIOps.
• Automated remediation: Run approved diagnostics or repeatable fixes from incidents and runbooks.
• Customer-impact communication: Publish status updates and bridge support cases with engineering incidents.
• Major incident management: Coordinate responders, stakeholders, timelines, roles, and post-incident reviews.
• Cloud and infrastructure operations: Connect observability, cloud, ticketing, chat, and automation systems into one response flow.
• Security and compliance operations: Route security incidents, preserve response records, and coordinate follow-up work.
• Remote operations: Monitor and automate service issues across distributed physical locations.

PagerDuty processes operational alerts, service metadata, responder information, and potentially customer-impacting incident data. Review integration permissions, notification recipients, retention, data residency, and AI data handling before connecting production systems. Automated remediation should be limited to well-understood, reversible actions.