PagerDuty
Get paged the moment something breaks, and stay covered on-call for up to 5 users at zero cost.
Overview
PagerDuty gets you paged the moment something breaks in production, with on-call scheduling, escalation policies, and over 700 monitoring integrations, and its free plan supports up to 5 users at no cost. Alerts route by email, push, SMS, or phone based on your on-call schedule, and if the first person doesn't respond, the escalation policy automatically pages the next. PagerDuty Advance adds AI-assisted incident actions to speed up triage, and post-incident review templates help you turn every outage into a documented lesson instead of a one-off scramble. For a solo operator running their own infrastructure, it's the difference between finding out about downtime from a customer versus finding out from a page.
Key Features
- On-call scheduling and escalation policies
- 700+ monitoring and chat integrations
- Unlimited API calls on every tier
- AI-assisted incident actions (PagerDuty Advance)
- Post-incident review templates
- • Genuinely usable free tier for small teams up to 5 people
- • Integrates with almost any monitoring stack
- • Scales cleanly into paid tiers as the team grows
- • SMS and phone notifications are capped on the free plan
- • Per-seat pricing adds up past 5 users
- • Advanced automation and analytics are paid-only