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FireHydrant
VerifiedDevOps · firehydrant.com
Overview
FireHydrant is a cloud-based incident management platform that helps engineering and SRE teams declare, respond to, and learn from incidents with automated runbooks, a service catalog, status pages, and retrospectives. Its Signals product adds native on-call scheduling, escalation policies, and alerting, making it an end-to-end alternative to stitching together separate paging and incident tools.
The problem FireHydrant solves
Engineering and SRE teams struggle to bring order to chaotic incidents when paging, coordination, and follow-up are scattered across disconnected tools. FireHydrant addresses this with automated runbooks, native on-call/alerting via Signals, and structured retrospectives that run inside Slack and Teams. It is best suited to mid-market and enterprise teams standardizing response, though it is not a fit for those needing self-hosting or built-in observability like APM and log management.
Decision context
Use these points to test whether the product fits your operation, not just whether it has a long feature list.
- Published starting price: Free. Confirm user, usage, and feature limits for the plan you would actually buy.
- Deployment: cloud. Check security, data-residency, and access requirements for every team that will use it.
- Verified integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog, New Relic. Validate sync direction and plan limits for the connections that matter.
- This record was last checked on 7/23/2026; pricing and features can change.
How to evaluate FireHydrant
A listing helps create a shortlist; a trial with the team’s real workflow decides whether the tool fits. Use this reading with the structured facts and confirm changes with the vendor.
Workflow fit
The record describes it as a fit for Mid-market and enterprise SRE/engineering teams standardizing incident response, Teams wanting codified, automated runbooks and structured retrospectives, Organizations consolidating on-call/alerting and incident management into one tool. Check that this context matches the volume, roles, and processes your team needs it to support.
Pilot questions
- Can FireHydrant complete the critical workflow without manual work outside the product?
- Do the recorded connections (Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie) support the sync direction, permissions, and volume we need?
- What user, usage, storage, support, or security limits appear after the headline starting price?
Evidence and freshness
This record was checked on 7/23/2026. That date tells you when the record was reviewed, not that the vendor has left its terms unchanged since then.
Best for
- Mid-market and enterprise SRE/engineering teams standardizing incident response
- Teams wanting codified, automated runbooks and structured retrospectives
- Organizations consolidating on-call/alerting and incident management into one tool
Not a fit if
- Teams needing self-hosted or on-premise deployment (cloud-only)
- Buyers looking for built-in APM, log management, or infrastructure monitoring
Why it’s listed
- End-to-end platform spanning alerting, on-call (Signals), and full incident lifecycle
- Highly rated on G2 (4.5) with strong reviewer praise for runbook automation and support
- Deep integrations (45+) across Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, Jira and ServiceNow
Pricing
Free
FreeFree plan for small teams getting started with incident response.
- Up to 10 responders
- 2 runbooks
- Slack & Teams chatbot
- 1 public status page
- 3 integrations
Pro
$25 per responder/month, billed annuallyAdvanced incident response with Signals on-call included for growing teams.
- 5 runbooks
- Service catalog
- Signals on-call scheduling & escalation policies
- Unlimited public status pages
- SSO
- 10 custom fields
Enterprise
Custom pricingEnterprise-grade features, AI capabilities, and governance for large organizations.
- Unlimited runbooks & integrations
- FireHydrant AI capabilities
- Private incidents & status pages
- Incident analytics
- SCIM & audit logs
- SLAs & dedicated CSM
Features
Integrations
Security & compliance
Pros & cons
Pros
- Automated runbooks reduce guesswork and save time during incidents
- First-class Slack/Teams-driven workflow and broad integration ecosystem
- Responsive, engaged support and customer success team
- Strong service catalog and retrospective/analytics capabilities
Cons
- Slack bot can be spammy with limited configuration options
- Rapid feature releases occasionally break existing functionality
- AI capabilities and advanced features are gated to the Enterprise tier
- Cloud-only with no self-hosting option
What we found
Reviewers consistently praise FireHydrant's automated runbooks, strong Slack/Jira/PagerDuty integrations, and highly responsive support. Common gripes are a sometimes-spammy Slack bot with limited configuration and a fast release pace that can occasionally break existing functionality.
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