What's The Difference?
How is Blameless a Better Alternative than FireHydrant?
Blameless offers a robust, enterprise-ready platform that guides you to more reliable services and resilient teams with the best security features.
Trusted by more than 19,000 responders
While FireHydrant offers incident management through Slack, it lacks the diversity of tools that allows Blameless to truly let you learn from incidents. Our best-in-class web interface lets you build customized dashboards to track incident data and dive into the root causes. Plus, we have the most cutting edge automation to reduce toil. We provide a holistic, integrated, and automated solution for enhancing Enterprise Reliability through efficient incident management and beyond.
30% of incident channels contain sensitive PII. Learn how Blameless keeps that data safeUsers & Pricing
Includes first 50 users with minimum purchase along with no overages for casual users
No initial users included in purchase and no overage protection
Data Security
Exclusive Data Storage: Utilize a single-tenant, high-availability database that exclusively stores your data.
Certified Security: Proudly SOC2 Type 2 certified, ensuring stringent data security standards.
Certified Security: Proudly SOC2 Type 2 certified, ensuring stringent data security standards.
Shared Data Storage: Your data is co-located in a shared database, potentially raising data security concerns
Data Residency
Global Deployment Options: Choose to deploy instances in the US, ASIA, or EU, catering to global or regional data residency requirements.
Multi-Bot Capability: With multi-bot, deploy in multiple countries per app or business unit for enhanced localization.
Multi-Bot Capability: With multi-bot, deploy in multiple countries per app or business unit for enhanced localization.
Limited Deployment: No specified options for data residency or deployment localization.
Leadership and Financial Backing
Robust Financial Backing: Raised over $50m (Series A & B) from renowned investors like Lightspeed, Accel, Thirdpoint, and Decibel.
Experienced Leadership: Our leadership team, enhanced in 2022, brings a wealth of experience from multiple IPOs and esteemed companies such as Apple, Cox, Web.com, Unqork, and New Relic.
Experienced Leadership: Our leadership team, enhanced in 2022, brings a wealth of experience from multiple IPOs and esteemed companies such as Apple, Cox, Web.com, Unqork, and New Relic.
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Incident Response Platform
Uses Slack or MS Teams to guide teams through role-based checklists
Only supports Slack with limited role-based guidance
Incident Communication
Our revolutionary CommsFlow feature automatically loops in stakeholders when changes happen
Manual communication via Slack
Incident Retrospectives
Robust automatic retrospective builder including customizable prompting to gather useful data from responders
Limited retrospective tools
Incident Analytics
Build customized dashboards with detailed, customizable pattern-tracking including data from monitoring tools
Singular dashboard with limited customizability and exporting functions
Service Level Objectives
Build complex SLIs and SLOs with automatic updates based on Blameless incidents
No SLO functionality
Security Features
Enterprise-grade security tools, including zero trust policies, role-based access control, and tool stack delineation
Some certifications, but no access management and delineation functions
Integrations
Provides integrations to support every step of the incident response, learning, and communication workflow, removing toil from every aspect
Integrations focus on the response process and follow-up while lacking some auxiliary processes
Blameless: Elevating Enterprise Reliability Beyond Incident Management
Let’s delve into the distinctive features that set Blameless apart in the realm of incident management and enterprise reliability.
Seamless Integration with Your Preferred Platforms
Blameless doesn’t just live in Slack; it thrives within a multitude of platforms, with integrations into all the most important components of your tech stack. Blameless draws on data from your monitoring tools and can export follow-up tasks into Jira. Use our feature-rich web UI for activities such as dashboarding and retrospectives, and export to any format you need. With support for Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, and Office, Blameless empowers you to do meaningful work without jumping between tools.


Inclusive and Accessible Across Your Entire Organization
Blameless works for your entire team. It's a solution engineered to enhance Enterprise Reliability by serving engineering, security, IT operations, customer success, and anyone else who plays a role in keeping customers happy. Our platform allows multiple independent instances of Blameless to be fully integrated and deployed within Slack or Microsoft Teams, providing a seamless and collaborative experience across your entire organization.
Automated and AI-Assisted Functionalities for Enhanced Communication
Blameless is pushing the cutting edge of new tech with AI-enhanced functionality. We automatically build retrospectives, creating guiding documents for every incident. Our AI Comms Assistant™ allows engineers to instantly communicate incident status to a variety of stakeholders while remaining focused on resolution. Automatically get the right message across to everyone, from executives to sales to other engineering teams.
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Real-Time Collaboration and Actionable Insights
Blameless lets your entire team collaborate on retrospectives in real time, in the Blameless UI, Google Docs or Office 365. Each follow up action item that your team surfaces can be automatically pushed into Jira, ServiceNow, or your alternative system of record. Then compliance with those actions is easily tracked from within Blameless. Enterprise dashboards containing this real-time data are part of what sets Blameless apart from competitors like FireHydrant.
Which tool, Blameless or FireHydrant, provides better value?
Blameless and FireHydrant have competitive per-user pricing. Based on the features you’d find most useful, either tool could give more value. For enterprise-sized organizations, Blameless’s more robust features are likely worth the investment. But for small organizations, FireHydrant offers a free small-teams version that may be worth considering.
Does Blameless or FireHydrant offer more integration support?
Both Blameless and FireHydrant offer a suite of integrations to enhance your incident management process. However, Blameless offers integrations for a wider range of steps in your process and removes toil from more types of work.
Which tool should I use to improve after incidents, Blameless or FireHydrant?
Making your system stronger using what you’ve learned from each incident is key to a resilient system. Blameless’s extensive retrospectives and reliability insights can ensure that each incident lets you take another step forward. Blameless’s unique SLO manager makes sure you’re prioritizing the most important metrics for your customers’ happiness.