Compare · v2.0.0 · as of 2 Oct 2026

OpsKnight vs incident.io

Vendor-hosted response that runs in Slack or Microsoft Teams, with status pages and commercial responder/on-call packaging. OpsKnight v2.0.0 is self-hosted with native Slack and Teams war rooms under AGPL-3.0-only.

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CapabilityOpsKnightincident.io
How you run it

Deployment

OpsKnight: Compose, Swarm, Helm, Kustomize. Others: vendor product model as of Oct 2026.

Self-hosted: Compose, Swarm, Helm, Kustomize (your VPC)Vendor SaaS (GCP)

Software license

OpsKnight v2.0.0: AGPL-3.0-only. Published v1.4.0 and earlier retain the licenses shipped with those artifacts, including Apache-2.0 where applicable. Grafana OnCall OSS was AGPLv3; that repo is archived.

AGPL-3.0-only (v2.0.0)Proprietary

Commercial model

OpsKnight Community and commercial offerings have separate licensing boundaries. Vendor pricing references should be confirmed on vendor sites.

Self-hosted Community; Enterprise/hosted capabilities may be packaged separatelyPer-seat responder/on-call plans; packaging varies by tier

Incident data location

Your Postgres / VPC for Community self-hostingVendor cloud

Product standing (Oct 2026)

OpsKnight v2.0.0 is the active stable release (AGPL-3.0-only); v1.4.0 remains historical Apache-era stable. Atlassian Opsgenie and Grafana status from their public migration/archive pages.

v2.0.0 stable; v1.4.0 historical Apache releaseActively sold
Incident response

Incident lifecycle

OpsKnight Prisma IncidentStatus. Others: core incident/alert products.

Open, ack, snooze, suppress, resolveDeclare → roles, updates, resolve (Slack/Teams-native)

On-call schedules

OpsKnight layers/overrides. Others: documented schedule products.

Layers, rotations, overrides, timezonesSchedules, cover, holidays, shadows

Escalation policies

Steps: user, schedule, or team

Outbound paging channels

OpsKnight NotificationChannel enum + docs. Vendor contact-method docs.

Email, SMS (Twilio/SNS), push, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, voice paging (Twilio), webhook (v2.0.0)Mobile app, phone, SMS, Slack, email, WhatsApp (WhatsApp not on Basic)

Native voice / phone calls

OpsKnight v2.0.0 adds Twilio VOICE channel for triggered-incident paging with responder ack input. Others: notification/contact docs.

Twilio voice paging on incident trigger with responder ack input (v2.0.0)Yes — phone escalations; live call routing on Pro/Enterprise

Slack ChatOps war rooms

OpsKnight Slack OAuth war rooms from v1.2. Vendor Slack apps.

Channel per incident; ack/assign/resolve from SlackCore product: /inc, auto channel, timeline in Slack

Microsoft Teams ChatOps

OpsKnight v2.0.0: native Teams app via Entra + Azure Bot — war rooms, Adaptive Cards, ack/resolve from channel, identity linking, meeting collaboration. Others: published Teams apps.

Native Teams app: war rooms, Adaptive Cards, ack/resolve, identity linking (v2.0.0)Native Teams app (Pro/Enterprise): dedicated channel, lifecycle in Teams

Video bridge on incident

OpsKnight: Jitsi generator + Zoom/Meet URL templates. Vendor collaboration docs.

Jitsi; Zoom/Meet via URL templateWorkflows can create Zoom; call transcription in product

Postmortems + action items

OpsKnight Postmortem + ActionItem models. Vendor PIR docs.

Timeline-based postmortems and action itemsPost-incident process + AI draft from timeline (plan-dependent)

Status page

OpsKnight published Community baseline: one page per install. Other vendors: status-page product docs.

Community baseline: one public/private page with custom domain and subscribersPublic, internal, customer pages (counts by plan); custom domain

MTTA / MTTR / SLA

OpsKnight SLA definitions/analytics. Other vendors: reporting products.

MTTA/MTTR and SLA definitions in-appInsights / trends in the product

Mobile

OpsKnight: installable PWA. Vendor App Store / Play apps.

Installable PWA with push; no App Store listingiOS and Android apps
Integrations & platform

Inbound monitoring webhooks

OpsKnight published docs catalog: 28 native parsers. Other vendors: integration directories.

28 native parsers + generic JSONAlert sources catalog

PagerDuty Events API v2 ingest

OpsKnight docs: POST /api/integrations/pagerduty/v2/enqueue. PagerDuty: events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue.

Yes — ingest adapter (routing_key payload). Not a PagerDuty cloneNo direct Events API v2 ingest adapter

Jira Cloud

OpsKnight published integration and vendor Jira integration guides.

Bi-directional issue syncFollow-ups export + incident/Jira workflows

REST API keys

API tokens

SSO

OpsKnight v2.0.0: OIDC with PKCE, JIT provisioning, claim-to-role mapping, and SCIM 2.0 user provisioning. Vendor SSO docs for other products.

OIDC (PKCE, JIT, claim-to-role) + SCIM 2.0 provisioning (v2.0.0)Slack SSO; SAML/SCIM on applicable plans

RBAC + audit log

OpsKnight roles + AuditLog. Other vendors: documented admin controls.

Roles + audit log; advanced governance can be packaged separatelyRoles; custom RBAC + audit logs on Enterprise

As of 2 Oct 2026. OpsKnight feature cells reflect the v2.0.0 stable release (AGPL-3.0-only); v1.4.0 and earlier artifacts retain their historical Apache-2.0 terms. Vendor columns summarize public documentation and packaging, not a contract. Confirm current vendor pricing before making a purchasing decision.