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See what an agent can do with PagerDuty before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; commands tagged live-capable can re-run against the real endpoint from our edge, right now (▶ run live — the exact same request, live and recorded lines always labeled); the live MCP handshake runs real requests from our edge, right now — including, where the server allows it, one real read-only tool call (bring your own key for auth-gated servers); sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$curl -si -X POST https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' # live endpoint answers with a structured validation errorrecorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-07 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted · pure-HTTP probe — ▶ run live re-runs it from our edge

Verified integrations

Connections to other tracked products — hover a chip for the verbatim evidence quote behind it.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

44.6/100

Ai incident — stories about ai incident in this arenaAi incidentevidence →

Stories about ai incident in this arena

51.0/100

Alerting escalation — stories about alerting escalation in this arenaAlerting escalationevidence →

Stories about alerting escalation in this arena

73.2/100

Analytics reliability — stories about analytics reliability in this arenaAnalytics reliabilityevidence →

Stories about analytics reliability in this arena

24.0/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

37.5/100

Automation runbooks — stories about automation runbooks in this arenaAutomation runbooksevidence →

Stories about automation runbooks in this arena

56.0/100

Incident response — stories about incident response in this arenaIncident responseevidence →

Stories about incident response in this arena

24.9/100

Integrations observability — stories about integrations observability in this arenaIntegrations observabilityevidence →

Stories about integrations observability in this arena

12.0/100

Mobile experience — stories about mobile experience in this arenaMobile experienceevidence →

Stories about mobile experience in this arena

36.0/100

On call scheduling — stories about on call scheduling in this arenaOn call schedulingevidence →

Stories about on call scheduling in this arena

18.0/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

31.2/100

Postmortems learning — stories about postmortems learning in this arenaPostmortems learningevidence →

Stories about postmortems learning in this arena

30.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

0.0/100

Status communication — stories about status communication in this arenaStatus communicationevidence →

Stories about status communication in this arena

20.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 54/54 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full9/10T

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full9/10T

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3partial6/10C

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3none0/10

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full7/10T

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full7/10T

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial7/10X

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full7/10T

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10C

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial5/10X

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10T

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1noneuntestednone yet

Alerts from my monitoring tools are ingested through documented sources and routed to the right team by conditions I define C

Routing

sreAlerting escalation — stories about alerting escalation in this arenaAlerting escalation3full8/10T

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3full8/10T

Escalation policies walk unacknowledged pages through multiple steps — delays, fallback responders, and repeat rounds — until someone acknowledges C

Escalation

sreAlerting escalation — stories about alerting escalation in this arenaAlerting escalation3full8/10X

My agent can acknowledge, escalate, and resolve incidents end to end through a documented API or MCP connection — no dashboard in the loop C

Agent ops

ai-native userAi incident — stories about ai incident in this arenaAi incident3full8/10T

AI writes the incident as it happens — live summaries, drafted updates, and scribed call notes — so responders respond instead of typing C

Ai summaries

ai-native userAi incident — stories about ai incident in this arenaAi incident3partial7/10C

Postmortems follow a real workflow — templates, drafting from the timeline, review, and publication G

Postmortems

engineering leaderPostmortems learning — stories about postmortems learning in this arenaPostmortems learning3partial5/10C

Build on-call schedules with rotations, layers, time zones, and round-robin coverage that match how my teams actually work C

Schedules

sreOn call scheduling — stories about on call scheduling in this arenaOn call scheduling3partial4/10X

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3partial4/10C

Declare and run an incident from chat — Slack or Teams — with channels, roles, and updates created for me C

Declaration

on-call engineerIncident response — stories about incident response in this arenaIncident response3partial3/10C

First-party integrations cover my observability stack — Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Sentry — with documented setup C

Alert sources

sreIntegrations observability — stories about integrations observability in this arenaIntegrations observability3none0/10

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3noneuntestednone yet

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3n/auntestednone yet

Duplicate and related alerts are deduplicated and grouped so one incident pages one human, not fifty C

Noise reduction

sreAlerting escalation — stories about alerting escalation in this arenaAlerting escalation2full9/10T

A condition-based workflow engine automates the toil — updates, reminders, field changes — triggered by incident events C

Workflows

sreAutomation runbooks — stories about automation runbooks in this arenaAutomation runbooks2full7/10C

AI drafts the postmortem from the incident record — timeline, contributing factors, follow-ups — ready for human review G

Ai summaries

ai-native userAi incident — stories about ai incident in this arenaAi incident2partial7/10C

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial7/10T

Runbooks attach to incidents and their steps can trigger automatically — creating channels, assigning tasks, running diagnostics C

Runbooks

sreAutomation runbooks — stories about automation runbooks in this arenaAutomation runbooks2partial7/10C

A full mobile app lets me acknowledge, escalate, and resolve from my phone at 3am C

Mobile

on-call engineerMobile experience — stories about mobile experience in this arenaMobile experience2partial6/10X

Pages reach me over the channels I choose — push, SMS, phone call, and email — with per-channel notification rules C

Paging

on-call engineerAlerting escalation — stories about alerting escalation in this arenaAlerting escalation2partial6/10X

An AI investigator digs into the probable cause — correlating changes, telemetry, and similar past incidents — before a human even asks C

Ai investigation

ai-native userAi incident — stories about ai incident in this arenaAi incident2partial5/10C

Follow-up actions from incidents are tracked to completion and sync to our issue tracker C

Follow ups

engineering leaderPostmortems learning — stories about postmortems learning in this arenaPostmortems learning2partial5/10C

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2partial5/10T

Publish a hosted public status page — custom domain, subscriber notifications — driven from incident state G

Status pages

engineering leaderStatus communication — stories about status communication in this arenaStatus communication2partial5/10C

The incident timeline is captured automatically — alerts, actions, and chat decisions — and I can edit or annotate it afterwards C

Timeline

sreIncident response — stories about incident response in this arenaIncident response2partial5/10C

The platform integrates with the tools around the incident — Jira, Slack, Teams, Zoom, GitHub — so state flows both ways C

Workflow tools

sreIntegrations observability — stories about integrations observability in this arenaIntegrations observability2partial5/10C

I get reliability analytics — MTTA/MTTR trends, incident load, on-call health — to see whether we are actually improving C

Metrics

engineering leaderAnalytics reliability — stories about analytics reliability in this arenaAnalytics reliability2partial4/10C

Take an override, swap a shift, or request coverage without an admin rebuilding the schedule C

Schedules

on-call engineerOn call scheduling — stories about on call scheduling in this arenaOn call scheduling2partial3/10X

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2none0/10

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2n/auntestednone yet

Internal stakeholders get structured incident updates they can subscribe to, without joining the war room C

Communications

engineering leaderIncident response — stories about incident response in this arenaIncident response1partial6/10C

Incidents carry defined roles (commander, comms lead) and task checklists so response stays coordinated under pressure C

Coordination

engineering leaderIncident response — stories about incident response in this arenaIncident response1partial4/10C

My shifts sync to my personal calendar via a feed so I always know when I'm on the hook C

Quality of life

on-call engineerOn call scheduling — stories about on call scheduling in this arenaOn call scheduling1none0/10

Run private or internal status pages with access control for customer-specific or employee-only audiences G

Status pages

engineering leaderStatus communication — stories about status communication in this arenaStatus communication1none0/10

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1noneuntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 39 stories with headroom

What would move PagerDuty’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productPlug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 45

    All MCP-related evidence describes PagerDuty publishing its own MCP server (server role) so external AI clients can call PagerDuty's tools (pagerduty-docs-1, pagerduty-docs-14, pagerduty-docs-34, pagerduty-probe-2, pagerduty-probe-rt-1) — there is no evidence that PagerDuty itself, or its agentic features like PagerDuty Advance/SRE Agent, can act as an MCP client and plug in external MCP servers to use their tools.

  2. Integrations observability — stories about integrations observability in this arenaFirst-party integrations cover my observability stack — Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Sentry — with documented setup

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    The evidence pack documents generic integration mechanisms (Events API v2, REST API, webhooks, service integrations) but never names or links documented setup guides for the specific tools cited in the story—Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or Sentry—so there is no evidence of first-party, per-tool documented integrations for this observability stack.

  3. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence pack item addresses AI training data usage, opt-out controls, or any privacy policy statement about model training on customer data; PagerDuty Advance and MCP references describe AI features, not data-training privacy controls.

  4. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The evidence pack documents PagerDuty's REST API, Events API, webhooks, and an official MCP server, but no official CLI tool for AI-native workflows is mentioned anywhere in the docs or community sources.

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productExplore an interactive API reference with runnable examples

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    Evidence shows PagerDuty publishes REST/Events API overviews and developer docs (e.g.

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDownload a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    Missing: explicit OpenAPI/Swagger spec file or reference, developer portal spec download link, schema versioning info.

  7. Incident response — stories about incident response in this arenaDeclare and run an incident from chat — Slack or Teams — with channels, roles, and updates created for me

    partialq3/10moves PA Scoreimpact 21

    Missing: explicit ChatOps slash-command/incident-declaration workflow docs, Teams support, evidence of auto-created channels and role assignment from chat, and any independent confirmation of this specific flow.

  8. Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedSchedule recurring jobs or workflows

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    PagerDuty's automation features (Incident Workflows, escalation policies) are event-triggered by incident conditions, not time-based recurring job/workflow scheduling; the on-call 'Schedules' evidence (pagerduty-docs-12) covers staff rotation, not scheduled automation jobs.

Showing the top 8 of 39 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map8 surfaces · 38 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Main docs28 stories

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$curl -si -X POST https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' # live endpoint answers with a structured validation errorreproduced
$ curl -si -X POST https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'  # live endpoint answers with a structured validation error
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

{"message":"Event object is invalid","status":"invalid event","errors":["'routing_[redacted]' cannot be blank","'event_action' is missing or blank"]}
$curl -si -X POST https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'reproduced
$ curl -si -X POST https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

Server: nginx

Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:11:54 GMT

Content-Type: application/json

Content-Length: 112

Connection: keep-alive

www-authenticate: Bearer error="invalid_[redacted]", error_description="Authentication required: the [redacted] is invalid or has expired.", resource_metadata="https://mcp.pagerduty.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp"

x-request-id: 99dfa4929937316f3d43fc0f217f60f5

{"error": "invalid_[redacted]", "error_description": "Authentication required: the [redacted] is invalid or has expired."}

Business model

free-tiersubscription-per-seatenterprise-custom

Free plan for up to 5 users, then per-user Professional and Business tiers (Business ~$41-49/user/month) with add-ons like AIOps and automation priced separately; Enterprise is custom.

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Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Scoretracked since Sep 7 '26 — no movement recorded yet
Agent-readytracked since Sep 7 '26 — no movement recorded yet

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Recorded agent sessions — and a live MCP handshake where the vendor ships one.

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Data

⚿ auth1 auth-gated probe

Agent surface uptime MCP 100% · llms.txt 100% (30d, checked every 6h since Sep 8 '26)