Opsgenie alternative · end of life April 5, 2027
The Opsgenie alternative for small teams
Opsgenie is discontinued: new sales ended in June 2025 and the service shuts down on April 5, 2027. If your team is 2–25 people and what you actually need is "page the right person, escalate if they don't answer, prove it was handled," FlowAlert does that for a flat $29/month — set up in minutes, migrated in an afternoon, without a per-seat bill or an ITSM suite.
1,000 free events/month · No card required · Updated September 28, 2026
Why small teams are leaving Opsgenie.
Opsgenie is being sunset: Atlassian stopped selling it to new customers on June 4, 2025, and the apps and APIs shut down for good on April 5, 2027 — every team needs a new home for on-call before then.
The default migration path is Jira Service Management, an ITSM suite priced per agent and built around tickets, queues and approvals — a lot of product for a team that just needs to be paged.
Per-seat pricing punishes exactly the teams that should be on the rotation: adding the weekend person or the account manager adds another seat, so small teams under-staff their on-call to save money.
Most of the enterprise feature surface — incident command, stakeholder communications, postmortem workflows, hundreds of integrations — goes untouched by a 5-person team paying for it.
FlowAlert keeps the part that matters: on-call schedules, escalation chains, and acknowledged push notifications on real phones, plus heartbeats and uptime checks — free to start, flat pricing for the whole team, and a weekly drill that proves the pager still works.
1,000
Free events every month to start. No card required.
Opsgenie end of life: the dates that matter
Opsgenie isn't "changing" — it is being retired on a published schedule. Plan your migration against these dates, not against the moment it stops working.
Early 2025
Atlassian announces Opsgenie's end of life
Incident management is being consolidated into Jira Service Management and Compass. Opsgenie enters maintenance mode: bug fixes and security patches, no new capabilities.
June 4, 2025
New sales end
Opsgenie can no longer be purchased by new customers. Existing subscriptions continue to run and renew for now.
2025 – 2027
The migration window
Atlassian provides tooling to move Opsgenie configurations into Jira Service Management. This is also the window in which teams that don't want an ITSM suite move to a purpose-built alternative.
April 5, 2027
Opsgenie shuts down
The Opsgenie web app, mobile apps, and APIs stop working. Anything still routing alerts through Opsgenie on that day routes them nowhere. Export any history you want to keep before this date.
On-call migrations always take one quarter longer than planned. If April 2027 feels far away, that is precisely the moment to run the new pager in parallel — calmly, this quarter — instead of frantically next spring.
How it works
From event to acknowledged alert — the whole path, in order.
Point your monitoring at the FlowAlert REST API — Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana, UptimeRobot, CloudWatch, or any webhook — or install the WordPress plugin for one-click site alerts
Set who's on call and the order alerts escalate through
When an alert fires, the on-call person is paged on their phone via push notification — loud, on the lock screen, distinct per priority
They acknowledge in the app — the escalation timer stops and the response is logged
If they don't respond in time, FlowAlert escalates to the next person automatically, and keeps climbing until someone owns it
See it in action
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What you get
On-call schedules — recurring or one-off, per person
Escalation chains — silence is escalated, never lost
Acknowledged mobile push on iPhone & Android, with per-priority sounds
Heartbeat monitoring — get paged when a job stops checking in
Uptime checks — we probe your sites from the outside, three strikes and you're paged
A weekly test drill through your real routing rules, acknowledged on a real phone
Flat pricing — $29/mo for the whole team, no per-seat surprises
Free plan — 1,000 events/month to start, no card required
Quiet hours per person — routine alerts wait, urgent ones break through
Full audit trail of who was paged, when, and who acknowledged
Use cases
Solo & small dev teams
You don't need an enterprise incident platform — you need to be paged when prod breaks at 3am and to escalate if you sleep through it. FlowAlert does that for a flat fee.
Migrating off Opsgenie
Point your monitors at the FlowAlert REST API, rebuild your escalation chain, run both pagers in parallel for a few weeks, and cut over well before April 2027. The migration section below has the full sequence.
Cron & job monitoring
Heartbeat monitors page you when a nightly backup, sync, or renewal job goes silent — included on every plan, not gated behind a tier.
Agencies with client sites
Every client site reports into one workspace; alerts route per client to the right person, and the acknowledgement log is the proof you show at renewal.
SMB ops, not just dev
FlowAlert routes business events too — orders, bookings, form submissions, failed payments — so the same tool covers ops and on-call for a small company.
Mobile-first teams
No desktop console required — alerts land on the lock screen with sound, and acknowledgement happens right in the app. The weekly drill proves the phones still ring.
FlowAlert vs Opsgenie
Migrating from Opsgenie to FlowAlert
Most small teams finish this in an afternoon of setup plus a few weeks of running both pagers side by side. Nothing here is a big-bang cutover.
Inventory what actually fires
Export your Opsgenie teams, on-call schedules, escalation policies, and integrations. Most teams find a decade of cruft — migrate the 20% of rules that produced alerts in the last quarter and let the rest retire with Opsgenie.
Map every alert source
Anything that can send an HTTP request becomes a FlowAlert source: Alertmanager and Grafana webhooks, uptime tools, CloudWatch, cron jobs. WordPress and WooCommerce sites get the one-click plugin instead of a webhook.
Rebuild routing, escalation, and acknowledgement
Recreate the chain deliberately: who is paged first, how many minutes until it climbs, who is the final catch. Turn on acknowledgement for anything urgent so the team can see it was owned.
Move heartbeats and add uptime checks
Re-point Opsgenie heartbeats at FlowAlert check-in URLs, then enable uptime checks on the sites that matter — a direction Opsgenie never covered.
Run both pagers in parallel
Keep Opsgenie live for two to four weeks while FlowAlert receives the same alerts. Compare who got paged and how fast; fix routing gaps while the old pager still has your back.
Drill, then cut over
Enable the weekly test alert, let one go deliberately unacknowledged and watch it climb, then switch your sources over for good — and export your Opsgenie history before the April 2027 shutdown.
Send us your Opsgenie setup and we'll map it onto FlowAlert with you — routing rules, escalation, heartbeats — free, no obligation.
Get migration helpWhat Opsgenie did well — and the part small teams actually used
Opsgenie earned its reputation as the approachable incident tool: solid alerting, sane pricing for its era, and none of the ceremony of the enterprise suites. For a large operations org it offered a deep catalog — hundreds of monitoring integrations, incident timelines, stakeholder communications, postmortem workflows, service maps.
A five-person team used a fraction of that. Ask most small teams what their Opsgenie actually did, day to day, and the honest answer is short: it made the right phone ring when something broke, it escalated when nobody answered, it let someone acknowledge so the rest of the team could stand down, and a few heartbeat monitors watched the cron jobs. That fraction is not a lesser product. It is the product — and it is exactly the part FlowAlert is built around, without the surface area a small team pays for and never opens.
Where per-seat pricing breaks for a small team
Per-user pricing was designed for organizations where the on-call rotation is a defined group of engineers. In a small business the rotation is everyone: the owner, the two managers, the developer, the weekend person. Every seat you add to make the rotation honest adds to the bill — so teams quietly leave people off the pager to save money, which is the opposite of what an alerting tool is for.
The numbers make the shape obvious. PagerDuty's Professional tier lists at about $21 per user per month; put ten people on the rotation and that is roughly $2,520 a year for the ability to make phones ring. Jira Service Management, the default landing spot for Opsgenie customers, is priced per agent as well. FlowAlert is a flat $29 a month per workspace with up to 25 people included — $348 a year — and adding the Saturday person costs nothing, which is why the Saturday person actually ends up on the rotation.
- Flat per workspace: the whole team, one price, no seat arithmetic
- Up to 25 people on Pro — the account manager, the on-call dev, and the owner can all carry the pager
- A free plan that is genuinely free: 1,000 events and 100 notifications a month, forever
Jira Service Management: the default path, and who it fits
Atlassian's migration tooling moves Opsgenie configurations into Jira Service Management, and for organizations already living in Jira — engineering, IT, and support all working from the same queues — that may genuinely be the right answer. The alerting features have been landing steadily, and the migration is supported.
For everyone else, it is a category change. JSM is an ITSM suite: it thinks in tickets, SLAs, approvals, and agents, and its alerting is a feature inside a much larger product with a much larger surface to configure and pay for. A shop, a clinic, an agency, or a two-developer SaaS does not need a service desk to get paged. If the sentence "we're standing up an ITSM platform" makes your team wince, that is the signal to look at a purpose-built pager instead of migrating into a suite.
What you give up by choosing FlowAlert — honestly
FlowAlert is not an enterprise incident-management platform, and pretending otherwise would waste your migration. There is no incident command workflow, no stakeholder communication templates, no postmortem tooling, and no service catalog. The native integration list is about twenty-five WordPress and e-commerce plugins plus a REST API and webhooks, not a catalog of two hundred monitoring vendors — anything that can make an HTTP request connects in minutes, but you will wire it rather than pick it from a list.
If your team runs Kubernetes with a five-nines error budget and a rotation of SREs, choose PagerDuty or JSM, sincerely. If your on-call reality is "the site, the store, the forms, the cron jobs, and whoever is awake," you have been paying enterprise prices for the fraction of the product you use — and you now have a deadline that makes switching the calm option rather than the brave one.
Common questions
The things people ask before connecting this — the docs cover the rest.
Atlassian stopped selling Opsgenie to new customers on June 4, 2025, and it reaches end of life on April 5, 2027 — after which the Opsgenie web app, mobile apps, and APIs stop working. Until then it is in maintenance mode: security fixes, no new features. Any alert still routed through Opsgenie on April 5, 2027 goes nowhere.
Yes, Opsgenie is discontinued (Atlassian calls it end of life). It has not been available to new customers since June 4, 2025; existing customers can keep using it until the April 5, 2027 shutdown. Atlassian's recommended path is migrating into Jira Service Management, whose per-agent pricing and ITSM scope suit large organizations more than small teams.
Jira Service Management (with some capabilities in Compass). Alerting and on-call features have been folded into JSM, and Atlassian provides migration tooling from Opsgenie. It is a full IT service management suite priced per agent — the right destination for Jira-centric organizations, and a category change for a team that only needs paging.
Access ends with the service. Export what you want to keep — alert history, schedules, escalation policies, integration configurations — before April 5, 2027. FlowAlert can't import Opsgenie's historical incidents, but rebuilding the live configuration (schedules, escalation, routing) takes an afternoon, and our migration steps above walk through it.
For small teams, yes — it covers what you actually use: on-call schedules, escalation, acknowledged mobile alerts, heartbeat monitoring, plus uptime checks Opsgenie never had. It is not an enterprise incident-command platform with hundreds of native integrations and postmortem tooling. If you need that, you need an enterprise tool; if you need reliable paging without the overhead, FlowAlert is the better fit.
For a small one, often yes: Alertmanager, Grafana, CloudWatch, and any webhook-capable monitor connect over the REST API, and you get schedules, escalation, acknowledgement, and heartbeats. For a large SRE organization with incident command, service ownership maps, and a five-nines error budget, choose PagerDuty or JSM — we say so on this page on purpose.
Setup is an afternoon: connect sources, recreate schedules and the escalation chain, re-point heartbeats. Then run both pagers in parallel for two to four weeks so you can compare who got paged and fix gaps while Opsgenie still has your back. Most small teams are fully cut over within a month — leave the April 2027 deadline as slack, not as the plan.
FlowAlert's free plan is genuinely free, forever: 1,000 events and 100 notifications a month, iOS and Android push, routing rules, the REST API, and the WordPress plugin. Escalation policies and acknowledgement tracking are on Pro at a flat $29 a month for the whole team.
Anything that can send an HTTP request can trigger FlowAlert via the REST API — Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana, UptimeRobot, CloudWatch, your own scripts, or a cron job. You POST an event; FlowAlert routes and escalates it. WordPress and WooCommerce sites use the plugin instead: one toggle per alert type, no code.
Yes. You define an escalation chain; if the primary doesn't acknowledge within your time window, the alert automatically climbs to the next person, and keeps climbing until someone owns it. Every step is logged.
FlowAlert starts free with 1,000 events a month, and Pro is a flat $29 a month with up to 25 people included — no per-seat pricing. Opsgenie was priced per user per month, so the bill scaled with headcount; so does Jira Service Management's per-agent pricing. For a ten-person rotation the difference is roughly an order of magnitude a year.
Yes — push notifications via APNs on iOS and FCM on Android, on the lock screen with sound and vibration, even when the app is closed. Urgent alerts use a distinct sound and break through per-person quiet hours; routine ones wait politely for morning.
Stop missing what matters.
Set up FlowAlert in under two minutes: connect a source, define your first routing rule, and the right person’s phone knows from then on.
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