marbot an alternative to OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and VictorOps
Andreas Wittig – 22 May 2019
We started working on marbot in 2016. Recently, I’ve been doing some research to compare our incident management solution with our competitors: OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and VictorOps. Find my biased comparison in the following.
What do all four incident management solutions have in common? All solutions help your team to keep your systems up and running. They shoulder incoming alarms among engineers. The escalation strategy makes sure you are not missing any alerts. The following table compares all four solutions.
| marbot | OpsGenie | PagerDuty | VictorOps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CloudWatch integration | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Other AWS integrations | Great | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 3rd party integrations | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Configures AWS monitoring | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Slack experience | Great | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| On-call shift planning | Not needed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Phone call and SMS | Slack only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing (per user per month) | USD 5 | USD 9 to 29 | USD 1.66 to 99 | USD 9 to 49 |
So what makes marbot special? What are our unique selling points?
- Slack app from the beginning. Therefore, marbot makes use of Slack features and integrations. For example, the online status of your team is taken into consideration when escalating alarms.
- AWS first. We focus on providing you the best experience for monitoring your systems running on AWS.
- Set up monitoring. It is a challenge to watch all your AWS resources. marbot helps you to set up monitoring based on blueprints.
In short: marbot fits best when you are …
- part of a self-organized and agile team
- running a critical workload on AWS
- using Slack for team collaboration.
Take your AWS monitoring to a new level! Chatbot for AWS Monitoring: Configure monitoring, escalate alerts, solve incidents.
Andreas Wittig
Consultant focusing on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Entrepreneur building marbot.io. Author of Amazon Web Services in Action, Rapid Docker on AWS, and cloudonaut.io.
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