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Found Better Pagerduty Alternative

FluidifyAI released Regen, an open-source alternative to PagerDuty and Grafana OnCall, offering unlimited alert noise reduction, on-call schedules, and AI-powered incident summaries with self-hosting options. The tool supports BYO AI keys, 1-click imports from competitors, and claims sub-10ms webhook ingestion with zero-downtime deploys.

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Found Better Pagerduty Alternative
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Part of the FluidifyAI open-source suite

Unlimited alert noise reduction and incidents, unlimited on-call schedules, and unlimited AI postmortems and handoff digests with 1-click Import from Grafana Oncall/Pagerduty

- AI incident summaries, Post-mortem, Handoffs Summaries with Slack/Teams synch (BYO key β€” OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama)

Category Tools
Alert ingestion
Prometheus Alertmanager Β· Grafana Β· AWS CloudWatch Β· Generic webhook
Chat
Slack Β· Microsoft Teams Β· Telegram
AI
OpenAI Β· Anthropic Β· Ollama (BYO key β€” local or cloud)
Auth
SAML 2.0 β€” Okta Β· Azure AD Β· Google Workspace Β· any compliant IdP
Migration
Grafana OnCall Β· PagerDuty
Deploy
Docker Compose Β· Kubernetes Helm Β· bare metal
Regen PagerDuty incident.io Grafana OnCall
Price Free $21–50/user/mo $30+/user/mo Archived
Self-hosted βœ… ❌ ❌ βœ… (archived)
Open source AGPLv3 ❌ ❌ Apache 2.0
SSO βœ… Free πŸ’° Paid πŸ’° Paid βœ… Free
BYO AI βœ… ❌ ❌ ❌
Agent-native βœ… ❌ ❌ ❌
Alert + incident + on-call in one βœ… πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’° Paid πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’° Paid πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’° Paid
1-Click imports βœ… ❌ ❌ ❌

PagerDutyβ€” schedules, escalation policies, EU region supportedGrafana OnCallβ€” drop-in replacement for the archived OSS project

Quickest start β€” Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/FluidifyAI/Regen.git
cd Regen
cp .env.example .env   # add your Slack token, AI key, etc.
make start

Open ** http://localhost:8080** β€” create your admin account on first load.

For detailed guides, see:

Full installation guideβ€” prerequisites, env vars, health checksDocker Compose self-hostingβ€” production setupKubernetes / Helmβ€” HA deploy with Helm chartEnvironment variablesβ€” all config options

Don't wanna host and manage yourself?

[Get in touch]and we'd do it for you.

Scenario Result
Webhook ingestion p99 < 10 ms (target: < 200 ms)
Webhook sustained p50 / p95 1.55 ms / 2.82 ms
API reads p95 (list / detail) 4.42 ms / 2.83 ms
Peak throughput (burst test) 3,917 RPS β€” 0 Γ— 5xx
PostgreSQL failover RTO 11 s (Patroni + HAProxy, target: < 60 s)
Redis failover RTO 5 s (Sentinel 3-node quorum)
In-flight requests lost on rolling deploy 0

Production numbers will be higher β€” these were captured on a single-machine local HA stack. Reproduce yourself:

make load-test

andmake chaos-db

. Full methodology in[docs/RELIABILITY.md].

Zero-downtime deploysβ€” rolling restarts drain in-flight requests before pod shutdown (SIGTERM β†’ 30 s drain β†’ exit)** PostgreSQL HA**β€” Patroni manages automatic primary election; HAProxy re-routes to the new primary within one health-check interval (3 s). No app restart, no config change.Redis Sentinelβ€” 3-node quorum detects primary loss; workers reconnect to new master automatically** Kubernetes-native**β€” HPA, health-gated rolling deploys, resource limits out of the box** Webhook flood protection**β€” rate limiter returns 429 before the DB sees load spikes; validated at 3,917 RPS with zero OOM events** Full observability**β€”/metrics

(Prometheus) + pre-built Grafana dashboard indeploy/grafana/

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/webhooks/prometheus \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "receiver": "fluidify-regen",
    "status": "firing",
    "alerts": [{
      "status": "firing",
      "labels": {"alertname": "TestAlert", "severity": "critical"},
      "annotations": {"summary": "Test alert from curl"},
      "startsAt": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    }]
  }'

An incident is created automatically. If Slack is configured, a dedicated channel appears within seconds.

Connecting Slack:Regen uses Slack's HTTP Events API (signedPOST

to/api/v1/slack/{events,interactions,commands}

) β€” not Socket Mode. Local dev needs a public tunnel (ngrok). Full setup, including the three Request URLs and troubleshooting, is in[docs/getting-started/connecting-slack.md].

Authentication: bcrypt (cost 12), timing-safe comparison, 5-attempt account lockout, HTTP-only SameSite=Strict session cookies** No SQL injection surface**: All database access uses GORM parameterized queries β€” no raw string interpolation** Webhook verification**: Slack (HMAC-SHA256 + replay protection), Teams (RSA/OIDC), CloudWatch (RSA + SSRF-safe cert validation)** Rate limiting**: Redis Lua script enforcing three tiers β€” 10/min on auth endpoints, 120/min unauthenticated, 600/min authenticated** Security headers**: CSP, HSTS (2 years), X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Permissions-Policy on every response** Container hardening**: non-root UID 1001, read-only filesystem, all Linux capabilities dropped** CORS**: explicit allowlist viaCORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS

; dev-only fallback to localhostFrontend: nodangerouslySetInnerHTML

, no secrets in bundle, session token never accessible to JavaScript

Review the ** Production Security Checklist** β€” TLS, PostgreSQL password, Redis auth, and CORS origins for prerequisiste checklist.

Full security architecture: SECURITY.md

Don't wanna manage uptime and security?

[Get in touch]and we'd do it for you.

We love contributions big and small. This is how you join us:

docker-compose up -d db redis

cd backend && go run ./cmd/regen/... serve

cd frontend && npm install && npm run dev

Read for raising a PR:

If you find Regen useful, consider supporting us by:

  • Star this repo - It helps others discover Regen Guide us- Every issue you raise goes into building

AGPLv3 β€” free forever, including SSO.

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