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Rootly vs Splunk On-Call comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Rootly
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk On-Call
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Rootly is 2.8%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk On-Call is 4.2%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk On-Call4.2%
Rootly2.8%
Other93.0%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

MT
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
On-call workflows have become reliable and onboarding new engineers runs smoothly
The best feature that Rootly offers, which I really appreciated when we onboarded Rootly, is the shadowing feature. I evaluated quite a few tools but Rootly was the only one at the time that had this, and this allowed us to onboard new engineers into the on-call rota smoothly, which was a really cool feature. Regarding how the shadowing feature helped with onboarding new engineers, rather than manually tweaking schedules to try to hack a way to shadow existing engineers, Rootly gave us a shadow feature which allowed us to say person X, please shadow person Y, using these times and these days, very customizable, and it allowed us to onboard people in a much more graceful manner.
Ramani Happy - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Streamlined incident response has reduced downtime and improved on-call collaboration
A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak. If I want to deep dive into the on-call load, including MTTD and MTTR rates, I kind of have to export data and build my own dashboard, which is not as out-of-the-box as I would prefer. The UI has improved, but it still feels a little chunky in certain areas, particularly when managing schedules. When I have a lot of teams, it can get messy. Additionally, the pricing model is per user, which starts to get expensive as the team scales.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Rootly has positively impacted my organization by saving time with manually adding timelines, as they are already built in when timelines are added in Slack through integration."
"We were missing alerts due to our legacy tool that was unable to call out engineers effectively, but now we have achieved a 100% success rate of alert delivery, which is a massive step especially when trying to fix and identify these problems."
"Rootly has positively impacted our organization because, in comparison to ObsGenie, the tool we used before Rootly, it is much more user-friendly, including the user interface and the whole approach to alerting and routing these alerts."
"With the strategic approach of putting everyone in a Slack group to resolve incidents, we have reduced the percentage of incidents created in a month by thirty percent during the first three months of using Rootly."
"I would recommend VictorOps for global distributed support teams."
"The big benefit of using Splunk On-Call is that I know I have a high-performance team, but now I can really measure and prove it."
"Technical support is an A+ or a 10/10; if I could give an 11/10, I would, and it is what I love about them."
"It reduces the communication around CI/CD and production errors in about 90% of the cases and made our support tasks much easier."
"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."
"My VP of Operations is ecstatic about the VictorOps product."
"VictorOps has decreased the meantime to acknowledge an incident management process, our developers can be on-call faster when we are using this solution, and we can fix our incidents much quicker."
"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."
 

Cons

"There are a few areas where Rootly can be improved."
"Regarding Rootly's AI capabilities, we had one incident when we lost alerting generally because Rootly crashed, and we did not like it."
"The integration process could be easier, perhaps with the addition of AI to facilitate smoother integrations with other applications, especially since those who manage integrations often need technical knowledge about web services and single sign-on processes, which can be challenging for non-technical users."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
"A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
"User management has to be improved and more user types need to be added as there is currently only Admin or User."
"One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience."
"The only feature that we are currently waiting on right now is really kind of an annoyance factor: when we get on the timeline on the main dashboard, there’s an ACK All button."
 

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Performing Arts
26%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Retailer
17%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rootly?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was really easy. Rootly scheduled a call with us and was very quick to give us a POC license to trial out the full product. They were not pushy...
What needs improvement with Rootly?
The team at Rootly seems to always be adapting and looking at what the market is doing and adding new features, so for us, Rootly currently fits the bill. If there was something we needed, we could...
What is your primary use case for Rootly?
My main use case for Rootly is on-call alerts. In my use case for on-call alerts, we plug into various applications using Rootly's out of the box plugins. If an alert triggers, Rootly is then respo...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictorOps?
I would say it is very affordable. I have compared Splunk On-Call internally with our own homemade solution. I have also compared it with other vendors such as PagerDuty, and it is really affordable.
What needs improvement with VictorOps?
I would say a little bit of the user experience and the user interface of Splunk On-Call can be improved. I have already started to gather metrics from the tool and started to analyze that. I would...
What is your primary use case for VictorOps?
I am currently working with Splunk Cloud, but I could review Splunk Enterprise as well because it is fundamentally the same product but with hosting being on-premises instead. Splunk Enterprise, Sp...
 

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