# 10 Best Splunk On-Call (VictorOps) Alternatives

![Splunk dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/e25099e3-8621-4210-e027-8d4ad5da5600/public =760x500)

VictorOps is dead - long live Splunk On-Call. Splunk
[acquired](https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/splunk-acquires-victorops--55421200)
VictorOps in 2018 and has developed it ever since. VictorOps changed, got a new
name, new features, and became On-Call.

On-Call is a comprehensive, innovative, and feature-rich [incident management
solution](https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/incident-management-tools/). Splunk is a significant player in the
market and offers solutions for a wide range of functions. However, all this
comes for a price.

Splunk's enterprise focus takes a toll on free or lower-tier plans that lack
essential functions, which means that even for the basics, you need to subscribe
to a higher-tier plan. It's, for example, the limitation on e-mail and push
notifications alerts even in paid plans or the absence of smart incident
merging.

## Top Splunk On-Call Alternatives in 2026

Considering that [incident management](https://betterstack.com/community/guides/incident-management/what-is-incident-management/) is essential
from the start, we've decided to compile this list of top 10 Splunk On-Call
alternatives.

## 1. Better Stack

![Better Stack Uptime Dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/ebbf66b5-64ad-4388-caee-cd7b765a3700/md2x =960x600)

[Better Stack](https://betterstack.com/uptime) is a modern and
innovative Incident Management platform. It's an
[Uptime monitoring](https://betterstack.com/uptime) solution with
[Incident management](https://betterstack.com/uptime) built-in and
a [status pages](https://betterstack.com/status-page) manager.

Thanks to second-by-second incident timelines with screenshots, smart incident
merging, and postmortems, you can significantly reduce MTTRs. On-call calendar &
scheduling, advanced incident escalation rules, and manually triggered incidents
ensure that you will be the first one to know if anything goes south.

Better Stack covers the monitoring of critical aspects such as heartbeat, SSL
certificates, or Ping and Ports. Thanks to the integration with Better Stack Logs, a log
management and analysis tool also made by Better Stack, you can get your hands
on a powerful incident management and monitoring solution for a fraction of the
price.

Basic Better Stack package is available for free, with 90 seconds checking
period, 10 monitors, free e-mail alerts, and integration into Slack and MS
Teams. Paid subscriptions start with the Freelancer package for $24/month,
offering Push notifications for iOS and Android, Postmortems, Uptime monitoring
tools, and a 30-second check frequency. The Small Team solution, starting at
$64/month, includes 100 monitors, on-call scheduling, and more than 200+
integrations, alongside enhanced uptime monitoring and incident management
tools. If you are looking for a solution for multiple teams, reach out for the
Business package or book a demo with one of the engineers and ask for a custom
quote.

### Main benefits of Better Stack:

- Incident management and uptime monitoring all-in-one platform with Public
  Status Pages manager built-in
- 30 seconds checking interval
- advanced incident management features available in the higher tiers
- Possible to integrate with [Better Stack Logs](https://betterstack.com/logs) for
  logs-related incident management

## 2. New Relic

![New Relic one dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/b8814359-2ab8-4728-f268-3b82fa874400/public =864x492) New Relic offers a solution to
Incident Management and faster incident response. It uses AI in many of its
processes, and it gets smarter over time. That ensures an effective Alert Noise
Reduction. With every incident occurring, applied intelligence evaluates if the
incidents should be correlated with other incidents.

New Relic gives you access to visualized insights of various metrics, such as
total incidents and correlated issues, and helps you understand what they have
in common. That allows group-related alerts. Instead of dozens of notifications,
you get one singular report with context, including automatic root cause
analysis.

But their progressive and intelligent architecture comes with a price, and most
of the communication side, such as on-call scheduling and alerting, are handled
externally by platforms such as Opsgenie or Pagerduty.

You can get New Relic for free. Then you pay for what you use, meaning that
everything that exceeds the limit of a free subscription comes for a certain
fee, depending on your subscription model.

### Main benefits of New Relic:

- Full-stack observability in one place
- A plethora of integrations

## 3. Opsgenie

![opsgenie homepage](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/b5dc9a42-facd-4bc1-7030-ce4466702800/public =1000x423) Opsgenie comes from Atlassian
and offers a strong alternative to On-Call. Thanks to its modern architecture
and functionality, it is easy to use and provides a good user experience.

When it comes to on-call scheduling, Opsgenie has an easy-to-use calendar and
works well, even for larger teams. There are plenty of advanced alerting
workflows that can be utilized to cover even corner case scenarios. Those
include enriched alerts, custom actions, or smart incident merging.

The main benefit of Opsgenie is that they offer a nice incident investigation
tool, which helps teams to correlate the latest deployments with incidents. This
can be of great help when solving downtime in many cases.

Opsgenie is available for free and offers a solution for Basic Alerting and
On-Call Management for smaller teams. Pricing then depends on the number of
users and the scale of your project.

### Main benefits of Opsgenie

- Modern dashboards
- Opsgenie for BlackBerry Dynamics

## 4. OnPage

![onpage dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/39b98f95-73f2-4c87-03c8-23c9caa2ba00/public =1366x658) OnPage is a SaaS incident alert management
system hosted in SSAE-16-compliant hosting facilities across the US. OnPage
allows you to get a complete solution for web management, receive mobile alerts,
get instant visibility and feedback on incident status. OnPage also makes it
easy to escalate alerts and stresses the importance of IT automation. It offers
more than 200 integrations, making it suitable for almost any existing
infrastructure.

OnPage allows real-time, cross-team collaboration for faster incident
resolution, with insights into your team's work. You can use this data to
improve your incident management strategies and your team's performance.

OnPage offers solutions for IT, Healthcare, the MSP sector, Business Continuity
Planning (BCP), and others.

### Main Benefits of Onpage:

- Elaborate Alerting system, including persistent notifications and
  Alert-Until-Read-Notifications
- Standard SLA

## 5. AlertOps

![alertops homepage](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/7427327b-3231-4b38-5b8a-10fdaa340c00/public =1000x423) AlertOps is an incident and
IT service management tool, offering all of the most frequently used features
comparable to tools such as Opsgenie or Splunk On-call. However, Alertops goes
over the top and provides a heartbeat monitoring solution in their higher-tier
plans. This comes in handy for anyone looking for a simple solution to monitor
scheduled tasks (e.g., database backup, invoice generator, etc.)

Regular Uptime or RUM features are not available, but AlertOps wants to "go
beyond managing incidents" with IT automation. This automation for AlertOps
offers dynamic alert routing depending on the time of the day, problem type, or
a specific case scenario.

AlertOps offers a free Starter Pack for up to 5 users suitable for easy on-call
scheduling, API monitoring, and alerting. The rest of the pricing depends on the
chosen subscription package and the number of team members.

### Main Benefits of AlertOps:

- White-Glove Onboarding
- End-to-End Automation

## 6. FireHydrant

![FireHydrant dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/8b820ede-cba0-45ac-65d9-c7ba04684000/public =1140x768) FireHydrant is a reliable platform
focusing on Incident Management and Analytics from the moment an incident occurs
to its resolution.

FireHydrant functions like most of the players on the market - it offers
incident management, automation, analytics, and key integrations. What stands
out is the service catalog allows you to understand the roles of your team
members in a documentation-ish way. FireHydrant also tracks deployments,
creating a timeline of every change made and how it affected your system.

Fully automatized and customizable, either public or authenticated status pages
keep stakeholders and users in the loop.

Maybe the biggest downside is the pricing model, which offers quite limited
features to the low-level tiers.

### Main Benefits of FireHydrant

- an innovative approach to incident management
- Status pages

## 7. PagerDuty

![pagerduty homepage](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/914d4928-da3d-440f-e903-978b6a855700/public =960x413) PagerDuty offers on-call
management capabilities such as live call routing or automated escalation
policies. These features allow you to distribute responsibility evenly and
benefit even more from your incident management.

Using adaptive learning, PagerDuty learns how to treat incidents automatically.
Runbooks use machine learning to decide which incidents need a response,
correlate data, and identify similar incidents to inform those responsible for
resolutions.

Using pre-built queries, you can overview incident activity and its impact on
your business. The analytics dashboard provides you with information about team
and service performance and health.

By using best practices, PagerDuty can help you to reduce noise and prevent
alert fatigue. PagerDuty is great at what it does, but it lacks essential
features, and any extras cost a lot of money, meaning that getting a solution
covering all your project's needs can easily lead to overspending your budget.

### Main Benefits of PagerDuty:

- Analytics Dashboard
- Noise and alert fatigue prevention

## 8. Resolver

![resolver dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/3bc0fa12-b0de-45c2-0be2-0545f33ea100/public =1366x659) Resolver focuses on the security and
reliability of big corporate players such as Toyota, Starbucks, or T-Mobile.
Their incident management software offers a complete roadmap to a sustainable
incident management solution.

Using Resolver's hotlines and incident portal, you can avoid incidents from
going unreported by creating easy-to-use and accessible incident-reporting
channels. AI-Enabled Intelligent Triage automatically tags your incident to
speed up the process, improve reporting consistency and identify correlations
and trends across incidents.

Resolver emphasizes the need to understand your team's workflow and adapt to it.
Its features and customizability allow for custom-tailoring the product
according to your needs. You can also build your own analytics and reports to
deliver essential information, including the root cause analysis, data
warehouse, analytics, reporting, and more.

However, Resolver is best suitable for big enterprise players, and the scale of
"incidents" handled by this tool is far beyond the need of an ordinary client.

### Main benefits of Resolver:

- Emphasis on security and reliability
- A portfolio of successful clients

## 9. Datadog Incident Management

![datadog dash](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/edd4f4b5-971c-4c7f-cc3d-b844e9718900/public =1024x576) Datadog's incident
response tool was deployed in 2020. It offers an end-to-end, automated incident
management solution fully integrated into the Datadog ecosystem.

It allows you to manage incidents from the moment of detection using Datadog's
web and mobile applications. Datadog Post Mortem Notebooks automatically
generate postmortem with data about an incident or export said data into a tool
of your choice.

Datadog offers you hundreds of built-in integrations, which gives it an upper
hand over PagerDuty by removing a lot of intermediaries. But Slack integration
is still in the beta phase.

Datadog's incident UI allows you to view all active and resolved incidents and
filter them by key metadata. Each selected incident brings up a timeline with a
chronological list of updates, which can be edited by your team members and help
for better information flow across your project.

Datadog Incident Response also covers post-incident reviews. Datadog Notebooks
enable synchronized collaborative editing, so your team can work on the analysis
and resolution.

### Main benefits of Datadog's Incident Response:

- Integration into the Datadog ecosystem
- Collaborative Datadog notebooks
- Incident UI

## 10. xMatters

![xmatters homepage](https://imagedelivery.net/xZXo0QFi-1_4Zimer-T0XQ/3500787c-e43c-4882-701d-968737fa4a00/public =1000x423) xMatters helps you deliver
faster and reliable services without interruptions and with minimal bottlenecks.
With xMatters, you get access to a powerful DevOps and SRE platform. With
easy-to-use on-call scheduling, team management, and incident timelines,
xMatters offers a reliable incident management tool. Advanced team management
tools such as permission management are also covered.

The main reason xMatters made this list is their generous free plan, offering a
solution for any freelancer or a small team that is just starting out but is
willing to invest in damage control and prevention.

The main difference with the paid plans is that they offer better analytics,
data retention, and dedicated support. Furthermore, xMatters offers over 200
pre-built integrations, so plugging in your stack shouldn't be a problem.

The main downside to consider with xMatters is that their phone call
notifications are only available on the paid plans and are limited depending on
your tier. To get unlimited phone calls, you need to switch to their custom
pricing, which obviously comes with a very high price tag.

However, the free tier is a great way for smaller teams to start implementing
on-call management in your team.

### Main benefits of xMatters:

- Free plan with loads of different features

## Conclusion

In this article, we evaluated Splunk’s On-Call role on the market, its
advantages, and mainly, disadvantages. We also went through a list of the ten
best alternatives, each compensating for something else. If you'd like to dig
deeper into incident management's do’s and don’ts, consider consulting our
knowledge base.