AI Index / Self-hosted incident management tools

Best Self-hosted incident management tools

What AI assistants actually recommend when buyers ask about self-hosted incident management tools — measured weekly across 5 engines, published as open data.

Updated 2026-08-04 · 52 sampled answers · rolling 4-week window · methodology

Rankings are measured from sampled AI answers — never editorial, never paid. Orbator builds AI-visibility tooling; when Orbator itself appears in any category, it is measured by the same rules as everyone else.

Updated weekly52 samples5 enginesmethodology

Sample: 52 AI answers · Window: Jul 7, 2026Aug 4, 2026 (4-week rolling) · trend vs prior 4 weeks (42 answers)

What is the best self-hosted incident management tools?

Across 52 sampled AI answers from 5 engines, OneUptime is recommended most often — appearing in 57.7% of recommendations, followed by GoAlert (50%) and OnCall (48.1%).

This is a measurement of share of voice across 5 AI engines — not an editorial pick. See the full ranking below.

#ProductShareTrendEngines
1
OneUptime

oneuptime.com

Best for: AI recommends OneUptime most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (90.9% of those answers)

57.7%

95% CI 44.270.1%

30 mentions · avg pos 4.9

first pick 26.7%

GROK 100%GEMINI 55.6%CHATGPT 60%CLAUDE 28.6%PERPLEXITY 61.1%
Claim
2
GoAlert

goalert.me

Best for: AI recommends GoAlert most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (90.9% of those answers)

50%

95% CI 36.963.1%

26 mentions · avg pos 6.9

first pick 23.1%

GROK 100%GEMINI 33.3%CHATGPT 60%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 66.7%
Claim
3
OnCall

Best for: AI recommends OnCall most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (90.9% of those answers)

48.1%

95% CI 35.161.3%

25 mentions · avg pos 9.1

first pick 20%

GROK 100%GEMINI 50%CHATGPT 60%CLAUDE 28.6%PERPLEXITY 38.9%
Claim
4
Prometheus

prometheus.io

Best for: AI recommends Prometheus most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (100% of those answers)

44.2%

95% CI 31.657.7%

23 mentions · avg pos 9.2

first pick 13%

GROK 100%GEMINI 38.9%CHATGPT 100%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 33.3%
Claim
5
Alertmanager

Best for: AI recommends Alertmanager most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (81.8% of those answers)

42.3%

95% CI 29.955.8%

22 mentions · avg pos 10.8

first pick 9.1%

GROK 75%GEMINI 27.8%CHATGPT 100%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 44.4%
Claim
6
Slack

slack.com

Best for: AI recommends Slack most when buyers ask best self-hosted incident management platform for a DevOps team handling on-call rotations (81.8% of those answers)

36.5%

95% CI 24.850.1%

19 mentions · avg pos 5.1

first pick 15.8%

GROK 100%GEMINI 27.8%CHATGPT 80%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 27.8%
Claim
7
Kubernetes

kubernetes.io

Best for: AI recommends Kubernetes most when buyers ask best self-hosted incident management platform for a DevOps team handling on-call rotations (72.7% of those answers)

36.5%

95% CI 24.850.1%

19 mentions · avg pos 6.7

first pick 26.3%

GROK 75%GEMINI 22.2%CHATGPT 40%PERPLEXITY 55.6%
Claim
8
Incidents

Best for: AI recommends Incidents most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (72.7% of those answers)

36.5%

95% CI 24.850.1%

19 mentions · avg pos 11.5

first pick 5.3%

GROK 75%GEMINI 61.1%CHATGPT 20%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
9
IRIS

Best for: AI recommends IRIS most when buyers ask best open-source incident response tool for coordinating outage resolution without cloud dependencies (60% of those answers)

32.7%

95% CI 21.546.2%

17 mentions · avg pos 6.6

first pick 11.8%

GROK 100%GEMINI 50%PERPLEXITY 22.2%
Claim
10
Docker

docker.com

Best for: AI recommends Docker most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (72.7% of those answers)

30.8%

95% CI 19.944.3%

16 mentions · avg pos 4.4

first pick 31.3%

GROK 100%GEMINI 22.2%CHATGPT 20%PERPLEXITY 38.9%
Claim
11
TheHive

Best for: AI recommends TheHive most when buyers ask best open-source incident response tool for coordinating outage resolution without cloud dependencies (70% of those answers)

30.8%

95% CI 19.944.3%

16 mentions · avg pos 5.4

first pick 18.8%

GROK 50%GEMINI 50%PERPLEXITY 27.8%
Claim
12
PagerDuty

pagerduty.com

Best for: AI recommends PagerDuty most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (81.8% of those answers)

30.8%

95% CI 19.944.3%

16 mentions · avg pos 6

first pick 12.5%

GROK 100%GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 60%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 33.3%
Claim
13
PostgreSQL

postgresql.org

Best for: AI recommends PostgreSQL most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (81.8% of those answers)

28.8%

95% CI 18.342.3%

15 mentions · avg pos 10.1

first pick 6.7%

GROK 100%GEMINI 22.2%CHATGPT 20%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 27.8%
Claim
14
Helm

helm.sh

Best for: AI recommends Helm most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (63.6% of those answers)

26.9%

95% CI 16.840.3%

14 mentions · avg pos 6.5

first pick 35.7%

GROK 100%GEMINI 16.7%CHATGPT 20%PERPLEXITY 33.3%
Claim
15
incident.io

incident.io

Best for: AI recommends incident.io most when buyers ask best self-hosted incident management platform for a DevOps team handling on-call rotations (54.5% of those answers)

25%

95% CI 15.238.2%

13 mentions · avg pos 10.2

first pick 15.4%

GROK 100%GEMINI 5.6%CHATGPT 20%PERPLEXITY 38.9%
Claim
16
Dispatch

Best for: AI recommends Dispatch most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (45.5% of those answers)

23.1%

95% CI 13.736.1%

12 mentions · avg pos 5.7

first pick 8.3%

GROK 25%GEMINI 11.1%PERPLEXITY 50%
Claim
17
Zabbix

zabbix.com

Best for: AI recommends Zabbix most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (45.5% of those answers)

23.1%

95% CI 13.736.1%

12 mentions · avg pos 12.5

first pick 16.7%

GROK 50%GEMINI 22.2%CHATGPT 20%CLAUDE 28.6%PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
18
Grafana

grafana.com

Best for: AI recommends Grafana most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (36.4% of those answers)

23.1%

95% CI 13.736.1%

12 mentions · avg pos 14.1

first pick 16.7%

GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 100%CLAUDE 42.9%PERPLEXITY 11.1%
Claim
19
Twilio

twilio.com

Best for: AI recommends Twilio most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (54.5% of those answers)

21.2%

95% CI 12.234%

11 mentions · avg pos 21.3

first pick 0%

GROK 100%GEMINI 16.7%CHATGPT 40%PERPLEXITY 11.1%
Claim
20
DFIR-IRIS

Best for: AI recommends DFIR-IRIS most when buyers ask best open-source incident response tool for coordinating outage resolution without cloud dependencies (40% of those answers)

19.2%

95% CI 10.831.9%

10 mentions · avg pos 3.1

first pick 20%

GEMINI 38.9%PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
21
IncidentRelay

incidentrelay.io

Best for: AI recommends IncidentRelay most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (63.6% of those answers)

19.2%

95% CI 10.831.9%

10 mentions · avg pos 8.7

first pick 10%

GROK 25%GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 40%PERPLEXITY 27.8%
Claim
22
Keep

Best for: AI recommends Keep most when buyers ask best open-source incident response tool for coordinating outage resolution without cloud dependencies (50% of those answers)

19.2%

95% CI 10.831.9%

10 mentions · avg pos 10.1

first pick 0%

GROK 25%GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 20%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 27.8%
Claim
23
Sentry

sentry.io

Best for: AI recommends Sentry most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (54.5% of those answers)

17.3%

95% CI 9.429.7%

9 mentions · avg pos 13.3

first pick 11.1%

GROK 25%GEMINI 16.7%CHATGPT 20%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
24
CATALYST

omnipress.com

15.4%

95% CI 827.5%

8 mentions · avg pos 5.1

first pick 0%

GEMINI 27.8%PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
25
Grafana Loki

Best for: AI recommends Grafana Loki most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (45.5% of those answers)

15.4%

95% CI 827.5%

8 mentions · avg pos 8.3

first pick 37.5%

GROK 100%GEMINI 16.7%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
26
Statuspage

statuspage.io

Best for: AI recommends Statuspage most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (54.5% of those answers)

13.5%

95% CI 6.725.3%

7 mentions · avg pos 8.8

first pick 28.6%

GROK 50%CHATGPT 40%PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
27
Grafana OnCall OSS

Best for: AI recommends Grafana OnCall OSS most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (36.4% of those answers)

13.5%

95% CI 6.725.3%

7 mentions · avg pos 11.8

first pick 14.3%

GROK 75%GEMINI 11.1%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
28
Loki

Best for: AI recommends Loki most when buyers ask best self-hosted incident management platform for a DevOps team handling on-call rotations (36.4% of those answers)

13.5%

95% CI 6.725.3%

7 mentions · avg pos 26.6

first pick 14.3%

GROK 25%GEMINI 5.6%CHATGPT 80%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
29
Opsgenie

atlassian.com

Best for: AI recommends Opsgenie most when buyers ask best self-hosted incident management platform for a DevOps team handling on-call rotations (36.4% of those answers)

9.6%

95% CI 4.220.6%

5 mentions · avg pos 4

first pick 0%

GROK 75%GEMINI 5.6%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
30
Spike.sh

spike.sh

Best for: AI recommends Spike.sh most when buyers ask best open-source incident response tool for coordinating outage resolution without cloud dependencies (30% of those answers)

9.6%

95% CI 4.220.6%

5 mentions · avg pos 6

first pick 0%

GROK 25%PERPLEXITY 22.2%
Claim
31
Mattermost

mattermost.com

Best for: AI recommends Mattermost most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (45.5% of those answers)

9.6%

95% CI 4.220.6%

5 mentions · avg pos 8.2

first pick 20%

GROK 25%GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 20%CLAUDE 14.3%
Claim
32
Redis

redis.io

Best for: AI recommends Redis most when buyers ask how do I self-host an incident management system with on-call schedules, escalation policies, and postmortem tracking (36.4% of those answers)

9.6%

95% CI 4.220.6%

5 mentions · avg pos 18

first pick 0%

GROK 25%GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 20%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
33
Rootly

rootly.com

9.6%

95% CI 4.220.6%

5 mentions · avg pos 23.7

first pick 0%

GROK 75%GEMINI 5.6%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
34
Wazuh

wazuh.com

7.7%

95% CI 318.2%

4 mentions · avg pos 8.3

first pick 0%

GEMINI 16.7%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
35
Nagios

nagios.org

Best for: AI recommends Nagios most when buyers ask open-source incident management alternatives to expensive hosted on-call and alerting platforms (45.5% of those answers)

7.7%

95% CI 318.2%

4 mentions · avg pos 13

first pick 0%

GROK 25%GEMINI 11.1%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
36
Openduty

7.7%

95% CI 318.2%

4 mentions · avg pos 18.8

first pick 0%

GROK 50%GEMINI 5.6%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
37
Cabot

7.7%

95% CI 318.2%

4 mentions · avg pos 20

first pick 0%

GROK 50%GEMINI 5.6%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
38
LinkedIn OnCall

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions · avg pos 6

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
39
Uptime Robot

uptimerobot.com

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions · avg pos 7

first pick 66.7%

CHATGPT 20%PERPLEXITY 11.1%
Claim
40
Kanvas

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions · avg pos 8

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
41
OpsKnight

opsknight.com

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions · avg pos 10.5

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
42
Graylog

graylog.org

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions · avg pos 11.3

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
43
RabbitMQ

rabbitmq.com

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions · avg pos 11.3

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
44
Dev.to

dev.to

5.8%

95% CI 215.6%

3 mentions

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 16.7%
Claim
45
Versus

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 2.5

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 11.1%
Claim
46
TheHive Project

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 3

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%
Claim
47
Splunk

splunk.com

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 7

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
48
SigNoz

signoz.io

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 8

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 11.1%
Claim
49
IRIS (DFIR-IRIS)

dfir-iris.org

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 8.5

first pick 0%

GROK 25%PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
50
OSSEC

ossec.net

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 10.5

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%
Claim
51
Velociraptor

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 11.5

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%
Claim
52
GRR Rapid Response

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 12.5

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%
Claim
53
AWS

aws.amazon.com

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 13

first pick 0%

GEMINI 11.1%
Claim
54
LDAP

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 19

first pick 0%

GROK 50%
Claim
55
BookStack

bookstackapp.com

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 36

first pick 0%

GROK 25%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
56
Datadog

datadoghq.com

3.8%

95% CI 1.113%

2 mentions · avg pos 41

first pick 0%

GROK 25%CHATGPT 20%
Claim
57
MISP

misp-project.org

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 1

first pick 100%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
58
Pingdom

pingdom.com

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 3

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
59
Server Density

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 3

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
60
Better Stack

betterstack.com

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 4

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
61
Fast Incident Response (FIR)

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 5

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
62
RTIR

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 6

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
63
RTIR (Request Tracker for Incident Response)

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 6

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
64
Kestra

kestra.io

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 7

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
65
ONES Project

ones.com

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 9

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
66
Dragos

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 13

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
67
Elasticsearch

elastic.co

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 13

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
68
Nozomi

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 14

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
69
Ubuntu

ubuntu.com

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 16

first pick 0%

GEMINI 5.6%
Claim
70
OpenObserve

openobserve.ai

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 17

first pick 0%

CHATGPT 20%
Claim
71
Grafana Cloud IRM

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 22

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
72
SQLite

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 24

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
73
Monzo Response

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 25

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
74
Netflix Dispatch

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 25

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
75
Fluidify Regen

fluidify.ai

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 26

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
76
Wiki.js

js.wiki

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 35

first pick 0%

CHATGPT 20%
Claim
77
GitLab

gitlab.com

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions · avg pos 38

first pick 0%

CHATGPT 20%
Claim
78
Notion

notion.so

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
79
OnPage

onpage.com

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions

first pick 0%

GROK 25%
Claim
80
Runframe

runframe.io

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
81
Wiz

wiz.io

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim
82
Zammad

zammad.org

1.9%

95% CI 0.310.1%

1 mentions

first pick 0%

PERPLEXITY 5.6%
Claim

Reading the numbers: Share is a point estimate on 52 sampled answers, so each row also shows its 95% CI — the Wilson score interval around that share. When two products' intervals overlap, the gap between them isn't statistically meaningful at this sample size. First pick is the share of a product's recommending answers where it was named first, which separates “always mentioned” from “usually the top recommendation”. Full methodology.

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