PagerDuty vs SolarWinds
No clear leader: PagerDuty (59.6) and SolarWinds (58.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for it management software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
PagerDuty
A cloud-based incident management and operational resilience platform that automates incident detection, alert routing, and team coordination. It captures incident data across multiple systems and tools, provides real-time analytics for incident response, and includes AI-assisted features for post-incident analysis and documentation.
SolarWinds
SolarWinds provides integrated monitoring and IT service management solutions for tracking system performance, managing assets, and coordinating incident response across cloud and on-premises environments. The platform includes AI-powered automation to streamline operational workflows and supports flexible self-hosted and SaaS deployment models.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
PagerDuty
Free tier available. Paid plans include Professional, Business, and Digital Operations.
- Professional-
- Business-
- Digital Operations-
SolarWinds
From $320/technician/year with automatic volume discounts. 14-day free trial.
- 1-5 Technicians$533/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 6-10 Technicians$524/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 11-20 Technicians$517/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 21-30 Technicians$507/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 31-40 Technicians$492/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 41-50 Technicians$473/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 51-75 Technicians$444/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 76-100 Technicians$417/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 101-250 Technicians$389/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 251-500 Technicians$357/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
- 501+ Technicians$320/technician/year
- Ticketing
- Asset discovery and lifecycle tracking
- Software license management
- Automation
- Unlimited end users
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- New Relic
- Slack
- Datadog
- ServiceNow
PagerDuty
- AWS
- Salesforce
- Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Cherwell
- Google Meet
SolarWinds
- Zoho Desk
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Chat
- Mattermost
- Zulip
- Twilio
- Public API
- Webhooks
- Terraform
- Jira Cloud
- Jira Server
- Freshservice
- Salesforce Cloud
- AWS CloudTrail via Cloudwatch
- AWS Lambda
- AWS SSO
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Active Directory SSO
- Google Cloud Operations
- Google SSO
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Dynatrace
- AppDynamics
- +23 more
PagerDuty or SolarWinds: which one depends on you
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