| This Opsgenie announcement has certainly sparked some interesting discussions. Reading through the HN thread, it's fascinating to see how many teams are in similar situations - either just migrated to Opsgenie (ouch!) or trying to figure out what their next move should be. The confusion around what's actually happening is understandable. While services will continue until 2027, end-of-sale in 2025 means many teams are already evaluating alternatives rather than waiting for the last minute. Something that really resonated with me from gregdoesit's comment was that reminder of the 2022 outage where OpsGenie was down for two weeks for some customers. That incident highlighted something we think about constantly at Zenduty: paging services are mission-critical infrastructure. When your alerting system goes down, you're essentially flying blind. I've been working with teams dealing with exactly these transitions, and the migration challenges are real - it's never just "update a webhook URL" as someone mentioned. Your alert routing rules, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and integrations are complex systems that need careful migration. What I'm curious about: for those of you considering alternatives, what features matter most to you? Is it reliability? Pricing? Integration flexibility? The ability to reduce alert fatigue? Feel free to drop your thoughts here or DM me. Always happy to chat about these challenges even if you're not looking at Zenduty specifically. These transitions are stressful, and having been through them myself, I know how disruptive they can be to engineering teams who just want to focus on building their products. Here's a detailed comparison of all the opsgenie features and what you need to know before you decide to migrate to a different tool - http://zenduty.com/zenduty-the-best-opsgenie-alternative-com... |
Another one that's surprisingly important to my employer: select the country of origin of phone calls.
The company I work for offers (among other things) datacenter colocation in Germany, and one of the selling points to compete against AWS is German ownership, no foreign control. Yes, some of our customers are very conservative. A few of our customers get direct notifications from our alerting tool, and if those phone calls arrive from a US-based number, it leaves a really bad impression.
OpsGenie has instances hosted in EU for that.