The comparison that matters

They tell you
what broke.
We fix it.

PagerDuty, Datadog, and incident.io all stop at the human. ShiftStack closes the loop.

Feature comparison
ShiftStack PagerDuty Datadog incident.io
Detects anomalies ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Pages a human optional required required required
Diagnoses root cause ✓ partial ✓ partial
Executes fix without human approval ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Closes the incident autonomously ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Pricing model flat $99/mo
founding 		per-seat per-host
+ seats		 per-responder
seat
Structural incentive resolve faster keep humans paged sell more hosts & seats sell more responders
⚡ The two rows above are the entire difference. Every other tool is built around keeping humans in the loop — that's their business model. ShiftStack is built around making humans optional.
What actually happens at 3am
💾 Disk fills at 3am — prod-node-7 at 92%
What others do
  • 1 Alert fires, pages on-call engineer
  • 2 Engineer wakes up, logs in, SSHs to server
  • 3 Runs df -h, confirms 92%
  • 4 Manually finds and clears old logs
  • 5 Manually runs docker prune
  • 6 Verifies disk <85%, closes incident
☕ Wake-up call · ~20–40 min mean time to resolve · Human in the loop the whole time
What ShiftStack does
  • ✓ Detects 92% → 92% threshold match
  • ✓ Rotates logs >7d (gzip + delete)
  • ✓ Clears /tmp >3d old
  • ✓ Docker system prune -f
  • ✓ Re-scans: 92% → 61% · 4.1GB freed
  • ✓ Dispatches Slack webhook · auto-resolves
🔇 No page · 12 seconds · 0 humans paged · incident closed
🔒 SSL cert expires Sunday morning
What others do
  • 1 7-day alert fires, engineer schedules renewal
  • 2 Weekend renewal window slips to Monday
  • 3 Cert expires Sunday morning
  • 4 Users see browser warnings
  • 5 Engineer woken up for emergency renewal
  • 6 Emergency cert install under pressure
🚨 Browser warnings · degraded trust · emergency on-call · rushed fix
What ShiftStack does
  • ✓ Detects cert expires in <3 days
  • ✓ Checks certbot config + webroot
  • ✓ Triggers Let's Encrypt renewal
  • ✓ DNS challenge verified · cert regenerated
  • ✓ Reloads nginx gracefully (0 downtime)
  • ✓ Verifies via openssl s_client · 90-day expiry
🔇 No alert · cert renewed automatically · the 3am page that never happened
☸️ Pod stuck in CrashLoopBackOff — api-server-5f9b8d4c7-xk9p2
What others do
  • 1 Alert fires, pages on-call engineer
  • 2 Engineer kubectl-debugs, reads last exit code
  • 3 Identifies OOM — pod keeps restarting
  • 4 Manually adjusts memory limit in deployment
  • 5 kubectl rollout restart manually
  • 6 Monitors pod to confirm Ready=1/1
☕ Wake-up call · ~25 min · engineer doing kubectl manually
What ShiftStack does
  • ✓ Detects CrashLoopBackOff · 5 restarts in 5 min
  • ✓ Fetches last 100 log lines via kubectl
  • ✓ Describes pod → identifies OOMKilled
  • ✓ Classifies failure: OOMKilled → memory patch
  • ✓ Patches deployment memory +50% · rollout restart
  • ✓ Verifies Ready=1/1 stable · auto-resolves
🔇 No page · 23 seconds · classified OOMKilled · memory patched +50% · pod recovered
Live terminal — watch it happen
Disk Full auto-remediation in real time
Open full demo →
shiftstack — disk_full ● RUNNING
Ready
resolved in 0s · 0 humans paged
Founding partner pricing

$99/mo — locked in forever

14 founding partner seats remaining. Your $99/mo rate never changes when we launch at $199/mo.

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No seat minimum · No per-incident fees · Cancel anytime
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