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OneUptime vs PagerDuty

PagerDuty focuses only on on-call and incident response, whereas OneUptime includes monitoring, status pages and observability.

Which to pick

Pick OneUptime if you want…

  • All-in-one open-source SRE stack
  • Open-source code (OneUptime/oneuptime on GitHub)
  • Integrations with GitHub, GitLab or OpenTelemetry (on OneUptime's list, not PagerDuty's)

Pick PagerDuty if you want…

  • AI-driven incident response and automation
  • On-call management
  • Integrations with Datadog, ServiceNow or Jira (on PagerDuty's list, not OneUptime's)

Side by side

What it is
OneUptime:Open-source platform that combines monitoring, status pages, on-call alerts and AI-driven incident resolution.
PagerDuty:PagerDuty is an AI-first incident management platform that detects, triages, resolves and learns from incidents across your tech stack.
Best for
OneUptime:All-in-one open-source SRE stack
PagerDuty:AI-driven incident response and automation
Who it’s for
OneUptime:DevOps, SRE and engineering teams that need unified observability and incident management.
PagerDuty:SREs, DevOps engineers, technical leaders managing on-call and incident response
Pricing
OneUptime:Freemium
PagerDuty:Freemium
Plans
OneUptime:Free $0 · Growth $20 per user per month (yearly) · Scale $84 per user per month (yearly)
PagerDuty:Free $0 · Professional $21 per user per month · Starter $2,800 per year · Essential $12,000 per year
Open source
OneUptime:Yes, 7,711 GitHub stars
PagerDuty:—
Works with
OneUptime:GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpenTelemetry, Twilio, WhatsApp, SMS
PagerDuty:Slack, Microsoft Teams, Datadog, ServiceNow, Jira, AWS

OneUptime features

  • Uptime Monitoring. Synthetic and real-user checks every 10 seconds with global probes and alerting.
  • Status Pages. Branded, self-hosted pages with unlimited subscribers on paid plans.
  • On-Call & Alerts. Phone, SMS, email and push alerts with automatic escalation and rotation.
  • Incident Management. Timeline-driven incidents that auto-update status pages and generate postmortems.
  • Logs, Metrics & Traces. OpenTelemetry-native ingestion, searchable logs and distributed tracing in one view.
  • AI Reliability Agent. Analyzes incidents, suggests root causes and opens fix pull requests in GitHub/GitLab.
  • Workflows & Integrations. 5000+ integrations, webhooks and drag-and-drop workflows for automation.
  • Access Controls. SSO, team permissions and advanced access control on Scale/Enterprise plans.

PagerDuty features

  • AI Agents. SRE, Scribe, Shift and Insights agents automate detection, diagnosis, remediation, documentation and trend analysis.
  • Smart Alerting. Machine-learning reduces alert noise by up to 91% and routes alerts dynamically based on severity and history.
  • Unified Response. Manage incidents directly from Slack, Microsoft Teams, mobile or web with full context and collaboration tools.
  • Post-Incident Reviews. AI-generated summaries, action items and templates streamline learning and continuous improvement.
  • 750+ Integrations. Out-of-the-box connectors for tools like Datadog, ServiceNow, Jira, AWS, and many more.
  • Custom Workflows. No-code/low-code builder lets you create conditional incident workflows and automate remediation actions.

OneUptime vs PagerDuty FAQ

Is OneUptime or PagerDuty free?+

OneUptime has a free plan and paid plans. PagerDuty has a free plan; paid plans start at $21/month per user (Professional).

Is OneUptime or PagerDuty open source?+

OneUptime is open source (OneUptime/oneuptime on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for PagerDuty.

Do OneUptime and PagerDuty integrate with the same tools?+

Partly. Both list Slack and Microsoft Teams. OneUptime also lists GitHub, GitLab, OpenTelemetry, Twilio and 4 more; PagerDuty also lists Datadog, ServiceNow, Jira and AWS.

On DevHunt

Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.