PagerDuty alternative
Best PagerDuty alternatives in 2026
PagerDuty is really three things bolted together: it receives alerts, it decides who to wake, and (as a paid add-on) it shows customers a status page. What it never does is generate the alerts -- something else has to be watching your systems. So the right replacement depends on whether you are leaving for the on-call half or the alerting-plus-status half.
- Native checks
- Built-in monitoringPagerDuty: None -- integrations only
- Flat monthly
- PricingPagerDuty: $21-49 / user / mo
- Escalation policies
- On-call depthPagerDuty: Full rotas + AIOps
Best for: Teams who want the monitor, the alert and the status page in one tool
Not in PagerDuty
- Website / HTTP uptime
- API checks with assertions
- Ping & port
- Cron / heartbeat monitoring
Does the monitoring PagerDuty never did -- uptime, API, database and server checks -- then routes the alerts through escalation policies and publishes a branded status page from the same checks.
Start freeFlat monthly by monitor count. Free plan covers 10 monitors.
6 PagerDuty alternatives, compared
Our pick
NoDisrupt
OursBest for: Teams who want the monitor, the alert and the status page in one tool
Does the monitoring PagerDuty never did -- uptime, API, database and server checks -- then routes the alerts through escalation policies and publishes a branded status page from the same checks.
Not in PagerDuty
- Website / HTTP uptime
- API checks with assertions
- Ping & port
incident.io
Best for: Teams who run incidents in Slack and want on-call plus response together
On-call scheduling, escalation and full incident response built around Slack, with status pages included -- the closest modern like-for-like for PagerDuty's job.
Watch out: Priced per responder and aimed up-market; it does no monitoring of its own either, so you still bring a checker.
Per seat / responder, tiered.
Opsgenie
Best for: Atlassian shops already on it -- but only until the 2027 shutdown
Flexible on-call scheduling and routing rules, long its draw, with deep Jira integration.
Watch out: Atlassian is sunsetting Opsgenie: no new sales since June 2025 and full shutdown on 5 April 2027. Not a destination to migrate to now; its features are moving into Jira Service Management.
Frozen; folding into Jira Service Management.
Better Stack
Best for: Small teams wanting uptime, on-call and status pages together
Uptime checks, on-call and a branded status page in one tool, so the monitoring and the alerting live in the same place.
Watch out: On-call scheduling is lighter than PagerDuty's, and the deeper you go the more the telemetry pricing adds up.
Flat tiers; telemetry billed on top.
Squadcast
Best for: Teams who want PagerDuty-style on-call at a lower price
On-call rotas, escalation and SRE workflows positioned directly as a cheaper PagerDuty.
Watch out: Smaller integration catalogue and ecosystem, and still a pure response tool with no monitoring of its own.
Per user, below PagerDuty.
Grafana IRM
Best for: Teams already on Grafana Cloud
On-call scheduling and escalation folded into Grafana Cloud alongside metrics, logs and synthetics.
Watch out: Only really makes sense inside the Grafana stack; on its own it is a platform to assemble rather than a product.
Bundled into Grafana Cloud tiers.
Side by side, on the things that decide it
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| Capability | NoDisrupt | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| What each tool monitors | ||
| Website / HTTP uptimePagerDuty receives alerts from a monitor; it runs no checks itself. | ✓Yes | —No |
| API checks with assertions | ✓Yes | —No |
| Ping & port | ✓Yes | —No |
| Cron / heartbeat monitoring | ✓Yes | —No |
| Database monitoring | Postgres, MySQL & Redis | —No |
| Server / host metrics | ✓Yes | —No |
| Known vulnerabilities in detected servicesReads the version each service reports and matches it against published advisories daily. | Pro | —No |
| When something breaks | ||
| Receive & route alerts | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Escalation policies | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| On-call scheduling & rotasPagerDuty's core strength: calendar rotations, overrides and coverage-gap detection. NoDisrupt routes through escalation policies, not a rota calendar. | —No | ✓Yes |
| AI incident summariesPagerDuty's generative-AI features (PagerDuty Advance) are a paid add-on. | ✓Yes | Add-on |
| AIOps / event intelligenceAlert de-duplication and correlation across sources is a separately priced PagerDuty product. | —No | Add-on |
| Keeping customers informed | ||
| Branded public status pagesPagerDuty Status Pages is a separately priced product. | ✓Yes | Paid add-on |
| What it costs | ||
| Pricing model | Flat monthly by monitor count | Per user per month |
| Free plan | 10 monitors | Up to 5 users |
Where PagerDuty is the better pick
We'd rather you choose the right tool than the wrong one. PagerDuty wins if:
- Full on-call scheduling: calendar rotations, overrides, coverage-gap detection and follow-the-sun handoffs. NoDisrupt has escalation policies but not a rota calendar.
- AIOps and event intelligence that de-duplicate and correlate alerts across hundreds of sources to cut noise.
- The largest integration catalogue in the category -- hundreds of tools feed it, so it sits downstream of almost any monitoring you already run.
- Mature incident-response tooling: runbook automation, stakeholder comms, postmortems and on-call analytics at enterprise scale.
Check-for-check
What happens to the checks you already run
Every PagerDuty check type you are likely to have, and its equivalent here. The last two rows have no equivalent, which is the honest answer rather than a reason not to list them.
5 of 6 PagerDuty check types have a direct equivalent.
Switching from PagerDuty
- 01
Point your monitoring at NoDisrupt
Recreate the uptime, API, database and server checks that were feeding PagerDuty, so the alerts start at source instead of being pushed in.
- 02
Rebuild your escalation
Translate PagerDuty escalation policies into NoDisrupt's: who gets paged, in what order, after how long. Note that rota calendars don't carry over -- escalation policies do.
- 03
Publish a status page
Turn the same monitors into a branded public status page, replacing the PagerDuty Status Pages add-on.
- 04
Keep PagerDuty for on-call if you need the rota
NoDisrupt's outbound webhooks can feed PagerDuty's Events API, so you can run NoDisrupt for monitoring and keep PagerDuty purely for scheduling.
Questions
Make the switch in an afternoon
10 monitors free, no card. Recreate your PagerDuty checks and keep your customers informed in the same sitting. Website / HTTP uptime starts on the paid tiers.
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