{"slug": "found-better-pagerduty-alternative", "title": "Found Better Pagerduty Alternative", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Part of the [FluidifyAI](https://fluidify.ai) open-source suite\n\nUnlimited alert noise reduction and incidents, unlimited on-call schedules, and unlimited AI postmortems and handoff digests with 1-click Import from Grafana Oncall/Pagerduty\n\n### - AI incident summaries, Post-mortem, Handoffs Summaries with Slack/Teams synch (BYO key — OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama)\n\n| Category | Tools |\n|---|---|\nAlert ingestion |\nPrometheus Alertmanager · Grafana · AWS CloudWatch · Generic webhook |\nChat |\nSlack · Microsoft Teams · Telegram |\nAI |\nOpenAI · Anthropic · Ollama (BYO key — local or cloud) |\nAuth |\nSAML 2.0 — Okta · Azure AD · Google Workspace · any compliant IdP |\nMigration |\nGrafana OnCall · PagerDuty |\nDeploy |\nDocker Compose · Kubernetes Helm · bare metal |\n\n| Regen | PagerDuty | incident.io | Grafana OnCall | |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Price | Free | $21–50/user/mo | $30+/user/mo | Archived |\n| Self-hosted | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (archived) |\n| Open source | AGPLv3 | ❌ | ❌ | Apache 2.0 |\n| SSO | ✅ Free | 💰 Paid | 💰 Paid | ✅ Free |\n| BYO AI | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |\n| Agent-native | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |\n| Alert + incident + on-call in one | ✅ | 💰💰💰 Paid | 💰💰💰 Paid | 💰💰💰 Paid |\n| 1-Click imports | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |\n\n[PagerDuty](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/docs/migrations/pagerduty.md)— schedules, escalation policies, EU region supported[Grafana OnCall](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/docs/migrations/grafana-oncall.md)— drop-in replacement for the archived OSS project\n\n**Quickest start — Docker Compose:**\n\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/FluidifyAI/Regen.git\ncd Regen\ncp .env.example .env   # add your Slack token, AI key, etc.\nmake start\n```\n\nOpen ** http://localhost:8080** — create your admin account on first load.\n\nFor detailed guides, see:\n\n[Full installation guide](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/docs/getting-started/installation.md)— prerequisites, env vars, health checks[Docker Compose self-hosting](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/docs/self-hosting/docker-compose.md)— production setup[Kubernetes / Helm](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/docs/self-hosting/kubernetes.md)— HA deploy with Helm chart[Environment variables](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/docs/self-hosting/environment-variables.md)— all config options\n\nDon't wanna host and manage yourself?\n\n[Get in touch]and we'd do it for you.\n\n| Scenario | Result |\n|---|---|\n| Webhook ingestion p99 | < 10 ms (target: < 200 ms) |\n| Webhook sustained p50 / p95 | 1.55 ms / 2.82 ms |\n| API reads p95 (list / detail) | 4.42 ms / 2.83 ms |\n| Peak throughput (burst test) | 3,917 RPS — 0 × 5xx |\n| PostgreSQL failover RTO | 11 s (Patroni + HAProxy, target: < 60 s) |\n| Redis failover RTO | 5 s (Sentinel 3-node quorum) |\n| In-flight requests lost on rolling deploy | 0 |\n\nProduction numbers will be higher — these were captured on a single-machine local HA stack. Reproduce yourself:\n\n`make load-test`\n\nand`make chaos-db`\n\n. Full methodology in[docs/RELIABILITY.md].\n\n**Zero-downtime deploys**— rolling restarts drain in-flight requests before pod shutdown (SIGTERM → 30 s drain → exit)** PostgreSQL HA**— 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 Sentinel**— 3-node quorum detects primary loss; workers reconnect to new master automatically** Kubernetes-native**— HPA, health-gated rolling deploys, resource limits out of the box** Webhook flood protection**— rate limiter returns 429 before the DB sees load spikes; validated at 3,917 RPS with zero OOM events** Full observability**—`/metrics`\n\n(Prometheus) + pre-built Grafana dashboard in`deploy/grafana/`\n\n```\ncurl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/webhooks/prometheus \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"receiver\": \"fluidify-regen\",\n    \"status\": \"firing\",\n    \"alerts\": [{\n      \"status\": \"firing\",\n      \"labels\": {\"alertname\": \"TestAlert\", \"severity\": \"critical\"},\n      \"annotations\": {\"summary\": \"Test alert from curl\"},\n      \"startsAt\": \"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z\"\n    }]\n  }'\n```\n\nAn incident is created automatically. If Slack is configured, a dedicated channel appears within seconds.\n\nConnecting Slack:Regen uses Slack's HTTP Events API (signed`POST`\n\nto`/api/v1/slack/{events,interactions,commands}`\n\n) — 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].\n\n**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 — 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 — 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 via`CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS`\n\n; dev-only fallback to localhost**Frontend**: no`dangerouslySetInnerHTML`\n\n, no secrets in bundle, session token never accessible to JavaScript\n\nReview the ** Production Security Checklist** — TLS, PostgreSQL password, Redis auth, and CORS origins for prerequisiste checklist.\n\nFull security architecture: [SECURITY.md](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/SECURITY.md)\n\nDon't wanna manage uptime and security?\n\n[Get in touch]and we'd do it for you.\n\nWe love contributions big and small. This is how you join us:\n\n```\n# Start backend + dependencies\ndocker-compose up -d db redis\n\n# Run backend with hot reload\ncd backend && go run ./cmd/regen/... serve\n\n# Run frontend with hot reload\ncd frontend && npm install && npm run dev\n```\n\nRead for raising a PR:\n\n- Read the setup & workflow in\n[CONTRIBUTING.md](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) - Discover all developer commands with\n`make help`\n\n- Have a big idea?\n[Let’s discuss it first](https://github.com/FluidifyAI/Regen/discussions)\n\nIf you find Regen useful, consider supporting us by:\n\n- Star this repo - It helps others discover Regen\n[Guide us](https://github.com/FluidifyAI/Regen/issues/new)- Every issue you raise goes into building\n\n[AGPLv3](/FluidifyAI/Regen/blob/main/LICENSE) — free forever, including SSO.\n\nBuilt by [FluidifyAI](https://fluidify.ai) · your incident data belongs to you", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/found-better-pagerduty-alternative", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/FluidifyAI/Regen", "published_at": "2026-07-13 00:49:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 01:05:28.901715+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["FluidifyAI", "PagerDuty", "Grafana OnCall", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Ollama", "Slack", "Microsoft Teams"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/found-better-pagerduty-alternative", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/found-better-pagerduty-alternative.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/found-better-pagerduty-alternative.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/found-better-pagerduty-alternative.jsonld"}}