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The Bottom Line

Entry price

Free plan available, paid tiers above

Biggest pro

Open source on-call

Biggest con

Newer product

TL;DR - Grafana OnCall

  • Grafana OnCall is an open-source on-call management and alerting system
  • It routes alerts, manages schedules, and escalates incidents integrated with Grafana
  • Free and open-source, cloud version included in Grafana Cloud
Pricing: Free plan available
Best for: Growing teams
4.5/5 across review platforms

What is Grafana OnCall?

Editorial review
Grafana OnCall provides on-call management integrated with Grafana alerting. Schedules, escalations, and routing-incident response that connects to your monitoring. The integration with Grafana is native. Slack and phone routing work smoothly. The setup is straightforward. Teams using Grafana add OnCall for incident management that works with their existing alerting.

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Open source on-call
  • Grafana integration
  • Good alerting
  • Self-hostable
  • PagerDuty alternative

Cons

  • Newer product
  • Less features than PagerDuty
  • Documentation improving
  • Setup complexity
  • Enterprise features limited

Ratings Across the Web

4.5(222 reviews)

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Key Features

On-call managementGrafana integrationSchedulesEscalationsChatOpsOpen source

Pricing Plans

Free

Free

Get started

  • 3 IRM users
  • 14-day retention
  • Community support
  • Part of Grafana Cloud

Pro

$20/per user/month

Growing teams

  • 8x5 email support
  • Extended retention
  • 99.5% uptime SLA
  • Part of $19/mo base

Enterprise

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Large scale

  • Premium support
  • Custom retention
  • Observability Architect access
  • Volume discounts

How Grafana OnCall's pricing compares

At $20/mo, Grafana OnCall is mid-range of its 3 direct competitors ($5 to $21/mo across the set).

Grafana OnCall
$20

Entry paid plan, monthly.

Reviews

4.5/5

Across 222 verified user reviews on G2, Capterra

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Grafana OnCall FAQ

Is Grafana OnCall free?

Open source version is free. Grafana Cloud OnCall free tier available. Pro features in Grafana Cloud.

What is Grafana OnCall?

Grafana OnCall is on-call management. Schedule on-call rotations, route alerts, manage escalations. Part of Grafana stack.

Grafana OnCall vs PagerDuty?

PagerDuty has more features. Grafana OnCall is simpler and integrates with Grafana. OnCall if already using Grafana.

Can I self-host Grafana OnCall?

Yes, OnCall is open source. Self-host for free with full features. Also available as Grafana Cloud service.

Source: grafana.com

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