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Users consistently praise Rootly for its seamless Slack integration and responsive support, which significantly streamline incident management processes. The platform's intuitive design and automation capabilities help teams manage incidents efficiently, reducing manual overhead and improving coordination. However, some users note that the extensive customization options can be overwhelming at first.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Comprehensive, Customizable Incident Management with Responsive Support"
5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

Rootly offers comprehensive incident management capabilities across the entire incident lifecycle, along with strong AI-powered features. It provides a wide range of out-of-the-box integrations with status pages, AI platforms such as OpenAI and Claude, and various monitoring tools, making it easy to integrate into an existing ecosystem.

One of Rootly's biggest strengths is its highly customizable workflows, which provide the flexibility to automate and tailor processes to meet specific organizational needs.

Another aspect I really appreciate is their responsiveness. The team communicates effectively, promptly acknowledges feature requests, and actively works on implementing valuable improvements. That level of customer engagement and commitment to continuous enhancement is something that truly stands out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

I don't have anything right now that I dislike in rootly. Going really good so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Thank you for the review. The retrospective generation you are planning to adopt, it drafts from the incident timeline and context for you rather than asking you to summarize after the fact, which is where most of the time saving shows up. Reach out if you have any questions. We'd be happy to hear your feedback.

Verified User in Automotive
EA
Verified User in Automotive
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Seamless, Smart, and Stress-Free Incident Response"
5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

What I like best about Root.ly is how seamless it makes the incident management process. It brings structure and automation to what can otherwise be a chaotic and stressful situation, and the intuitive workflows help keep everyone aligned. I also really appreciate how well it integrates with the tools we already use, which makes adoption painless and ensures it fits naturally into our existing processes. Overall, it creates a sense of confidence that incidents will be handled consistently and efficiently, without adding unnecessary overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

There are so many options that it can feel overwhelming at first, but the flexibility is worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Thank you for writing this. "Overwhelming at first, worth it later" is honest. The platform carries a lot of depth but also a lot of simplicity and your feedback helps improve it every day so thank you again. We appreciate working with you.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Slack-Native incident and oncall management for relaible operations"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

We use Rootly for on-call and incident management. What we like most is that it's completely Slack-native, making it easy for teams to declare, coordinate, and resolve incidents without leaving Slack. It provides a clear, structured incident workflow from declaration through resolution, and its on-call scheduling and alerting capabilities have been especially valuable for our operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

The workflow customization options feel somewhat limited, particularly for more complex use cases. Third-party integrations could also be broader, more flexible, and easier to adapt to different setups. Although Rootly has introduced AI features, they still seem fairly basic; with more power and maturity, they could do a better job supporting incident management and automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Thank you for the review, and for being specific about all three. It is worth knowing which cases specifically regarding workflow customization, since "limited" and "limited for what we need" are different problems. On AI, we're continuing to invest every day and pushing the limits. There's a lot more capability and power that's recently come and and will be coming out over the coming weeks.

Vaclav H.
VH
Vaclav H.
Frontend Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Rootly Brings Clear, Structured Incident Management with Reliable On-Call Alerting"
5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

We use Rootly for incident management, and it gives us a clear, structured process for handling incidents from declaration through resolution. What we like most is the on-call and alerting setup: we can define who gets paged when something breaks, with phone and push notifications that wake the right person up at night if needed. The escalation policies also let us control who gets called and in what order, so the on-call person is contacted first instead of alerting everyone at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

The workflows feature is powerful, but it takes some time to get comfortable with. Setting up custom workflows comes with several dependencies, and the documentation didn’t always address our specific use case, so we had to iterate a few times before we got everything configured the way we wanted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Vaclav, thank you for the review. Iterating several times because the documentation did not cover your case is on us, and the fix is worked examples for the dependency chains rather than more reference material. Good to hear the escalation ordering does what it should. Paging the right person first instead of everyone at once is the entire point of it.

Lindsay H.
LH
Lindsay H.
Operations Associate
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Incredibly Helpful, Receptive Support and Engineering Teams"
5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

Their customer support and engineering teams have been incredibly helpful and receptive to any feedback we’ve shared. They’ve made sure we can use the platform to the best of our ability, and they’re always eager to help as we roll out new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

The startup was very challenging, and we ended up having to explain our process multiple times to different team members. Although our on-call system is a bit nuanced, some promises were made by team members that weren’t entirely doable, which ultimately led to a very delayed go-live date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Lindsay, thank you for writing this. Nuanced on-call setups are exactly the ones that need one owner from first call to go-live, and we have changed how handoffs work on complex on-call migrations. Don't hesitate to reach out, we always want to hear from you.

Helen W.
HW
Helen W.
Devops Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Full-Featured Incident Management Without the Bloat"
5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

Rootly is the perfect balance of full featured incident management platform, without all the bloat and complications. Easy to set up, integrates with all the tools our team already uses, great UI, excellent support staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

Custom workflows allow for full integration, even with smaller, less popular ticketing systems and other tools. Not a bad thing about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Helen, thank you for writing this. "Without the bloat" is the harder half of the design, since adding features is easy and knowing which ones to leave out is not. Useful point about custom workflows reaching the smaller, less popular ticketing systems. I'll make sure that makes it back to the team. We appreciate your feedback. Keep it coming. You're a pleasure to work with.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Feature-Rich Integrations, User-Friendly UX, and Exceptional Support"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

There are lots of integrations available, which can help automate incident management workflows and make it easier to report and manage incidents directly within the collaboration tools I use most, like Slack or Teams. The UX is user friendly, AI has helped with root cause analysis and retrospectives and summaries. Support during roll-out and ongoing support from our Customer Success Manager has been exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

It's feature-rich, so it can be overwhelming at times to learn all the different tools and configurations available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Angelo H.
Incident Management Practice Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great Slack Integration, but Metrics and Reporting Need Easier Setup"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

I find Rootly’s integration with Slack really great, because it makes it easy to create incidents and keep everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

I do not like the metrics / reporting currently available or the not so easy to setup / use this feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Angelo, thank you for the review and for being direct. Reach out and let us know the three reports you would build first, that shapes what we prioritize. We always want to hear from you.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Intuitive, Rock-Solid Incident Management with Fast, Deep-Dive Support"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

I've been using Rootly for our incident management, and it’s honestly been fantastic. The platform manages to pack in a lot of robust capabilities while keeping the UI super intuitive, which is exactly what you want when you're trying to navigate a stressful outage. Integrating it with our existing alerting and monitoring stack was a breeze, and it’s been completely rock-solid—I really haven't noticed a single performance hiccup or stability issue on their end.

What really stands out to me, though, is their customer support. They reply incredibly fast and are actually willing to dive deep into technical discussions when we have specific feature requests or workflow ideas. The pricing is very reasonable, and the ROI is a no-brainer once you realize how many engineering hours you get back. I’m also really impressed by how early they jumped on AI and how fast they iterate to make those tools genuinely useful. We've been able to use their intelligence features to automate the heavy lifting for our post-incident retrospectives, which takes a massive manual writing burden off our incident owners. Overall, it's just a highly reliable, well-built tool that makes life a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

Powerful workflows tooling but learning curve is bit steep since too many configuration in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Thank you for writing this at length. Narrowing the first-run path without capping what you can build later is the work. Good to hear the AI features took the retrospective writing burden off your incident owners. That was the whole point of building them.

Mariana N.
MN
Mariana N.
Cyber Security Analyst - IT Project Management
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Rootly’s Slack Integrations Make Incident Response Seamless"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Rootly?

As an IMOC, I find Rootly’s integrations extremely useful. They enable seamless integration with Slack, creating a centralized hub for coordinating and managing incident response activities.

Initially, I didn't find the AI feature very useful because the output wasn't appropriate for incident response. However, it has improved significantly over time. The responses are now much more accurate, context-aware, and aligned with incident response needs, making the AI feature genuinely helpful in my day-to-day work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rootly?

There are a lot of noisy notifications in Slack when I’m handling incidents. When they come in, they can disrupt the flow of the chat while we’re dealing with an incident. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Adam Frank of Rootly

Mariana, thank you for writing this. Notification policies can be scoped per workflow and per severity today. It's worth 15 minutes to tune. We'd be happy to help. Reach out anytime. Good to hear the AI output improved to the point of being useful.