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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.

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Why Choose Blameless Over FireHydrant?

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.
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Blameless vs. FireHydrant Compared

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Users & 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.
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.
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.
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Incident Response Platform
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Uses Slack or MS Teams to guide teams through role-based checklists
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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.

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.

Why Do Customers Love Blameless?

Great integrations across the suite

Blameless integrates across every stage of incident management and post-incident improvement.

“Blameless is a great tool to tie together our suite of tools and services for fighting incidents. Especially the great Slack integration makes sure I can focus on fighting the incident, and not on setting up tools.”

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FireHydrant lacks casual user pricing to allow broader collaboration

“Licensing model compels orgs to restrict number of seats which can limit some of the functionality if you dont have a user account. It would be great if it were based on some form of usage, like the # of incidents.”

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Checklists to guide incident response

Blameless has best-in-class incident response guidance with our role-based checklists

“The best thing I find to be is the checklist of to-do tasks; this helps us ensure that we have done everything required according to our internal protocol to handle a bug.”

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FireHydrant creates difficult to navigate amounts of noise

“Sometimes notifications or integrations get too noisy, there is tons of information and notifications and it's hard to get the right amount of information/output from it”

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Dynamic tagging system

Use customizable tags to organize incidents and highlight their unique aspects.

“Tag management is beneficial towards tagging each unique incident for better reporting.”

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FireHydrant lacks guidance towards best practices

“Personally I like opinionated tools, and so I would enjoy a bit more guidance from the tool.”

Verified G2 review

Meaningful, detailed retrospectives

Automatically gather all the data needed for a productive and insightful retrospective session.

“Tracking events and key points during a production issue is something I've found most useful during retrospective sessions.”

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FireHydrant doesn’t delineate commands to guide responders

“FireHydrant has many different actions and (Slack) commands supported, but it is difficult to understand which ones are relevant to me as a triage engineer, especially since I am typically on call once every three months.”

Verified G2 review

Frequently Asked Questions - Blameless vs. 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.