OpsGenie shuts down April 5, 2027 — migration time is now

OpsGenie routes pages.
OnCallReady eliminates them.

Atlassian is migrating OpsGenie to Jira Service Management — a 2.4x price jump with a widely-hated UX. OnCallReady is the more ambitious alternative: stop routing 3am pages and start auto-resolving the incidents that cause them.

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OpsGenie End-of-Life: April 5, 2027

Atlassian ended new OpsGenie sales June 4, 2025 and will fully shut down the service April 5, 2027. Data gets deleted if you haven't migrated. The official migration path is Jira Service Management (JSM) — but it costs 2.4x more and teams consistently call it a "nightmare to configure." OnCallReady is a fast, frictionless alternative with flat pricing and a product that actively resolves incidents — not just routes them.

OnCallReady vs OpsGenie — by the numbers

OpsGenie routes alerts to humans. OnCallReady resolves incidents before humans get involved. Here's how they compare across the dimensions that matter for on-call health.

Capability OnCallReady OpsGenie Standard / Enterprise
Alert routing & escalation policies
On-call schedule management
Multi-channel notification (SMS, call, Slack)
Heartbeat monitoring
Autonomous runbook execution
Auto-resolve without human
Incident MTTR — disk full 28 seconds Routes to human
Incident MTTR — DB connection pool 22 seconds Routes to human
Incident MTTR — SSL expiry 19 seconds Routes to human
Incident MTTR — CPU spike 41 seconds Routes to human
% incidents resolved before page Up to 94% 0%
Actively shipping features Maintenance mode
End-of-life date None April 5, 2027
Migration support Dedicated Shutting down
Standard tier $299/mo flat $599/mo ($19.95/user)
Enterprise tier $299/mo flat $1,155/mo ($38.50/user)
Scales with team size Fixed cost Per-user billing

* OpsGenie pricing per user/month, annual billing, as published by Atlassian. New sales ended June 4, 2025; full shutdown April 5, 2027.

MTTR by incident type

OnCallReady runbooks auto-resolve the most common on-call triggers in under a minute. OpsGenie routes every one of these to a human — regardless of how routine the fix is.

Incident Type OnCallReady MTTR Success Rate OpsGenie outcome
Critical Disk Full 28s avg 98% success Page sent — 45–90 min avg MTTR
Critical DB Connection Pool 22s avg 97% success Page sent — 45–90 min avg MTTR
Medium SSL Expiry 19s avg 99% success Page sent — cert gaps cause outages
Critical Memory Exhaustion 34s avg 96% success Page sent — OOM kills services
Critical Service Restart 17s avg 99% success Page sent — service stays down
High Queue Backlog 31s avg 95% success Page sent — queues grow during alert
High Network Degradation 38s avg 91% success Page sent — service degrading silently

The Jira Service Management migration: what's really waiting

Atlassian's official path is Jira Service Management (JSM) Premium. But teams already in migration are reporting a rough road — and the price math is brutal.

"We moved from OpsGenie to JSM... not been fun. The entire company revolted and hated using JSM. So bad I can't even explain."

— Reddit r/devops, OpsGenie migrator (2025–2026)

OpsGenie (legacy)

$19.95/user/mo$599/mo @ 30 users
Active featuresMaintenance only
Migration requiredYes — April 2027

JSM Premium (official path)

$47.82/user/mo$1,435/mo @ 30 users
New UXWidely described as bad
Auto-remediationStill routes to human

OnCallReady Pro

Flat price$299/mo any team size
Active featuresShipping weekly
Auto-remediationResolves 80%+ of incidents

JSM comparison based on Atlassian's published pricing (JSM Premium $47.82/user/mo). User reviews from Reddit r/devops, r/sysadmin, G2, and Rootly blog. MTTR benchmarks from OnCallReady live production data.

Where OpsGenie was better

OpsGenie built a strong product. Understanding its strengths helps you evaluate what you actually need from a replacement.

  • Best-in-class on-call schedule management with override calendar
  • Deep Atlassian ecosystem integration (Jira, Confluence, OpsGenie)
  • Heartbeat monitoring and maintenance windows
  • Mature reporting and on-call metrics dashboards
  • Strong API for custom integrations (200+ integrations)

Where OnCallReady wins

OnCallReady doesn't just replace OpsGenie's routing — it makes most of that routing unnecessary. If you're resolving incidents before they reach the rotation, you don't need complex schedule management.

  • Auto-resolves known incident classes before anyone gets paged
  • 17–41 second MTTR across 8 common incident types
  • 94% of incidents resolved without a page sent
  • Actively shipping — not in maintenance mode
  • Flat $299/mo pricing regardless of team growth

Migration from OpsGenie in 4 steps

You have until April 5, 2027, but waiting until the last minute means a rushed migration under Atlassian's timeline. Starting now gives you a measured transition — and the upside of eliminating on-call pages while you still have both systems running.

1

Connect your first alert source

Point one monitoring tool (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or forward OpsGenie webhooks) at OnCallReady. Takes under 3 minutes. Leave OpsGenie running as fallback.

2

Codify your top 5 runbooks

Identify your highest-frequency incident types. Add matching runbooks to OnCallReady. These are the incidents that will stop waking your engineers — disk full, memory exhaustion, DB pool, SSL expiry.

3

Run parallel for 2–4 weeks

OnCallReady auto-resolves what it can. OpsGenie escalates the rest. Measure auto-resolution rate, build confidence, expand runbook coverage. No big-bang cutover.

4

Retire OpsGenie on your timeline

Once OnCallReady is handling your primary incident classes, wind down OpsGenie. No forced migration deadline. No Atlassian timeline pressure. Migration support available on request.

Teams that made the move

From routing-to-humans to resolved-before-anyone-wakes.

Zero pages, Q1
"Migrated from OpsGenie. First quarter on OnCallReady — zero pages sent for disk, memory, and pod incidents. On-call engineers reported the quietest quarter since launch."
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3-week migration
"Ran OnCallReady alongside OpsGenie for 3 weeks. Coverage hit 88% auto-resolved. Turned off OpsGenie before the month was out."
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$856/mo saved
"OpsGenie Enterprise at $38.50/user × 30 engineers = $1,155/mo. OnCallReady at $299/mo flat. $856/mo delta — and incidents now resolve themselves."
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Frequently asked questions

Is OpsGenie really shutting down?
Yes. Atlassian ended new OpsGenie sales on June 4, 2025 and will fully shut down the service on April 5, 2027. All customer data will be deleted if not migrated. The official migration path is Jira Service Management (JSM) — but JSM requires a 2.4x price increase and teams consistently describe the migration as a nightmare. Start planning now.
Why not just migrate to Jira Service Management?
JSM Premium costs $47.82/user/month — 2.4x OpsGenie Standard. Beyond pricing, engineering teams widely report that JSM's incident management UX is "not been fun" and "so bad I can't even explain." OnCallReady is the more ambitious alternative: stop routing pages and start eliminating them before anyone gets paged. At $299/mo flat vs JSM's ~$1,400+/mo for a 30-person team, the economics are also clear.
Can I run OnCallReady alongside OpsGenie during migration?
Yes. Many teams run both in parallel for 2–4 weeks. OnCallReady handles the incidents it can auto-resolve; OpsGenie escalates the rest. You expand coverage incrementally without any big-bang cutover. Typical migration timeline: 1–2 weeks to full coverage.
How do I migrate from OpsGenie?
We import your routing rules and configure runbooks for your most common incident types. Connecting your first alert source takes under 3 minutes. Runbook setup for your top 5 incident types typically takes a half-day. You don't need to migrate everything at once — run OnCallReady in parallel with OpsGenie and expand coverage incrementally.
What's the pricing difference at scale?
OnCallReady Pro is $299/month flat — regardless of team size. OpsGenie Standard is $19.95/user/month. At 30 users: OnCallReady $299/mo vs OpsGenie $599/mo. At 50 users: OnCallReady $299/mo vs OpsGenie $998/mo. JSM Premium migration at 30 users runs ~$1,435/mo. OnCallReady is 2–5x cheaper than any path forward OpsGenie customers have.
What about novel incidents you can't auto-resolve?
OnCallReady escalates with full incident context when it can't match a runbook. You haven't lost anything vs. OpsGenie — but you've gained resolution for everything it could handle. For everything else, OnCallReady pages with full diagnostic context, not just a threshold alert.
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