Compare · v1.3.1 · as of 20 Aug 2026

OpsKnight vs Splunk On-Call

Formerly VictorOps. Vendor-hosted on-call with phone/SMS/push and Slack/Teams apps. No first-party customer status page. OpsKnight is a separate Apache-2.0 stack you run, not a Splunk add-on.

Side by side

CapabilityOpsKnightSplunk On-Call
How you run it

Deployment

OpsKnight: Compose/Helm. Others: vendor product model as of Aug 2026.

Self-hosted (your VPC)Vendor SaaS (Splunk Observability)

Software license

OpsKnight LICENSE Apache-2.0. Grafana OnCall OSS was AGPLv3; that repo is archived.

Apache-2.0Proprietary

User pricing model

Public list pages as of 20 Aug 2026.

$0 software; unlimited users in the productPublic starting SKU $5/user/mo annual, up to 10 seats; larger is sales

Incident data location

Your Postgres / VPCSplunk cloud

Product standing (Aug 2026)

Atlassian Opsgenie migration page; Grafana OnCall OSS docs archive date 24 Mar 2026.

Ships 1.3.1Actively sold
Incident response

Incident lifecycle

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

Open, ack, snooze, suppress, resolveTriggered, ack, snooze, reroute, resolve

On-call schedules

OpsKnight layers/overrides. Others: documented schedule products.

Layers, rotations, overrides, timezonesTeams, rotations, paging policies

Escalation policies

Steps: user, schedule, or team

Outbound paging channels

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

Email, SMS (Twilio or AWS SNS), push, Slack, WhatsApp (Twilio), webhook. No voicePush, SMS, phone, email; WhatsApp available in paging policy

Native voice / phone calls

OpsKnight has no VOICE channel. Others: notification/contact docs.

Yes — phone paging (ack/resolve via keypad)

Slack ChatOps war rooms

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

Channel per incident; ack/assign/resolve from SlackSlack app: cards to ack/reroute/resolve/snooze; channel mapping

Microsoft Teams ChatOps

OpsKnight: outgoing webhook formatter only. Others: published Teams apps.

Outgoing webhook payload only — no Teams appVictorOps Teams app: bi-directional ack/resolve/snooze; optional per-incident channels

Video bridge on incident

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

Jitsi; Zoom/Meet via URL templateWar-room automation (bring your conference tool)

Postmortems + action items

OpsKnight Postmortem + ActionItem models. Vendor PIR docs.

You write from the timeline; no model-generated reportPost-incident reviews in the product

Status page

OpsKnight: one page per install. PD Status Pages overview. incident.io status-pages docs. Atlassian Statuspage is a separate SKU.

Included: one public/private page, custom domain, subscribersNo first-party customer status page; use a third-party page

MTTA / MTTR / SLA

OpsKnight SLADefinition. PD Analytics API. Others: reporting products.

MTTA/MTTR and SLA definitions in-appMTTA/MTTR reports in product

Mobile

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

Installable PWA (push, biometrics). No App Store listingiOS and Android apps
Integrations & platform

Inbound monitoring webhooks

OpsKnight docs v1.3 catalog: 27 native parsers. Others: vendor directories — counts change; we do not copy a marketing number we did not count.

27 native parsers + generic JSONREST + third-party integrations

PagerDuty Events API v2 ingest

OpsKnight docs: POST /api/integrations/pagerduty/v2/enqueue. PD: events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue. Others ingest their own formats or run a migrator.

Yes — ingest adapter (routing_key payload). Not a PD cloneOwn REST / integrations — not Events API v2 ingest

Jira Cloud

OpsKnight v1.3 bi-directional sync. Vendor Jira integration guides.

Bi-directional issue syncJira Cloud / Server add-ons and webhooks

REST API keys

API ID + API key

SSO

OpsKnight v1.3: OIDC only, no SAML. Vendor SSO docs.

OIDC (Okta, Google, Microsoft, Auth0, generic). No SAMLSAML 2.0 and SCIM 2.0

RBAC + audit log

OpsKnight USER/ADMIN/RESPONDER + AuditLog. Others: documented admin controls.

Roles + audit logTeam admin roles + org SSO

As of 20 Aug 2026. OpsKnight column: v1.3.1 application and docs. Other columns: vendor documentation and public pricing pages listed below — not a contract, not every add-on SKU, and not list prices we invent. Confirm packaging on each vendor’s site before you buy.