What is Rootly used for?

Rootly is a Slack-based incident management and on-call platform for engineering teams that need to coordinate outage response. It is a good fit for coordinating outage response in Slack and managing on-call rotations.

How much does Rootly cost?

Paid plans for Rootly start at $20 per seat per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.

Is Rootly open source?

No. Rootly is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Rootly include Keep, OneUptime and LinkedIn Oncall.

What are some alternatives to Rootly?

Rootly competes with incident.io and FireHydrant. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Rootly alternatives.

Rootly: features, pricing and alternatives

About Rootly

Rootly is a commercial incident management and on-call platform that is built around Slack. Teams use it to declare incidents, coordinate who does what and keep a record of what happened, directly from the chat tool where they already communicate.

Rootly is a proprietary, vendor-hosted service with no self-hosted edition. Detailed features, integrations and plans are described on the vendor's own site, and it suits engineering and SRE teams that want incident handling to happen in their chat workflow.

Key features

Incident management inside Slack
On-call scheduling and alerting
Incident timelines and records
Designed for engineering and SRE teams

Good fit for

→Coordinating outage response in Slack
→Managing on-call rotations

Tags: incident-management; on-call; slack; sre; alerting; saas

Rootly: questions and answers

What is Rootly used for?: Rootly is a Slack-based incident management and on-call platform for engineering teams that need to coordinate outage response. It is a good fit for coordinating outage response in Slack and managing on-call rotations.
How much does Rootly cost?: Paid plans for Rootly start at $20 per seat per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
Is Rootly open source?: No. Rootly is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Rootly include Keep, OneUptime and LinkedIn Oncall.
What are some alternatives to Rootly?: Rootly competes with incident.io and FireHydrant. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Rootly alternatives.