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PagerDuty vs SEC (Simple Event Correlator)
Both stand on alert management software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+5
PagerDuty brings incident response, on-call coordination, integrations, and workflow automation together. The free plan is limited in user and schedule counts; paid plans start at $21 per user per month with annual billing.
Visit PagerDuty Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindows
SEC offers configurable event correlation and several ways to trigger actions, with no plan charge. Windows users should account for the disabled Unix-native functionality.
Visit SEC (Simple Event Correlator)The facts
| PagerDuty | SEC (Simple Event Correlator) | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | Not published |
| Runs on | Android, API, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Web, Windows | Linux, Self-hosted, Windows |
| Lowest paid plan | Professional annual: $21 per user a month | Free or on request |
| Plans published | 9 | 1 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | pagerduty.com | simple-evcorr.github.io |
| On alert management software | #8 of 36 | #12 of 36 |
PagerDuty: what it does well
- Free plan supports up to five users
- More than 750 listed integrations
- Mobile apps support incident response and schedules
- Includes escalation policies and post-incident reviews
What to know first
- Free plan has one on-call schedule
- Mobile app requires a PagerDuty account
- Standard email and chat support is not included in Free
SEC (Simple Event Correlator): what it does well
- Free software distributed under GPL-2.0.
- Rules support threshold and suppression conditions.
- Can send data to TCP or UDP servers.
- Runs as a daemon, pipeline process, or terminal program.
What to know first
- Windows disables some Unix-native functionality.
- Perl 5.8 or newer is recommended.
- Usage questions are directed to the users mailing list.
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