FireHydrant
FireHydrant: A polished incident command suite with broad integrations, but no permanent free plan. Ranked #5 of 30 in IT Incident Management Software by our editors (9.0/10); pricing: Free plan · 14-day trial; best for organizations needing polished incident command.
At a glance
- Editor score9.0 / 10
- PricingFree plan · 14-day trial
- Best forOrganizations needing polished incident command
- Free planYes
- Paid from$25/user/mo
- Status pageAdvanced
- Founded2018
- Facts checked23 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Incident command combines timelines, tasks, follow-ups, and status pages.
- Runbooks, on-call schedules, and escalation hand-offs support coordinated response.
- Broad integrations connect monitoring, ticketing, chat, and conferencing tools.
Where it doesn't
- No permanent free plan is offered.
- Pro pricing is billed annually at $25 per responder per month.
- Signals alerting adds usage-based billing complexity.
Our verdict on FireHydrant
FireHydrant is an incident management platform for engineering, SRE, and reliability teams. It brings incident command, automated runbooks, on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalation policies, service ownership, status pages, stakeholder communications, and post-incident retrospectives into one system. Teams can coordinate through the web application, Slack, or Microsoft Teams, with mobile apps and an API also available. Its scope suits organizations that need a structured command center rather than a narrowly focused alerting tool.
The plan structure supports different levels of operational maturity. A plan labeled Free lists up to 10 responders, 2 runbooks, Slack and Teams chatbots, 1 public status page, and 3 integrations, while the pricing structure also describes a 14-day Pro trial rather than a permanent free offering. Pro costs $25 per responder per month when billed annually and adds 5 runbooks, unlimited public status pages, a service catalog, on-call scheduling, unlimited escalation policies, and SSO. Enterprise adds unlimited runbooks, private incidents, FireHydrant AI, private status pages, incident analytics, and unlimited integrations. Signals alerting is usage-based, adding another pricing consideration.
Integration breadth is a central strength for teams with an established operations stack. FireHydrant connects with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira Cloud, Jira Server, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Alertmanager, Sentry, New Relic, ServiceNow, Linear, Zendesk, and Zoom. It also supports webhooks and Terraform, while incident workflows cover monitoring, ticketing, collaboration, conferencing, and external communications. The result is a strong fit for teams that want command, escalation, service context, and retrospective work in one platform. Organizations seeking a permanent free tier or a simpler alerting-only product should consider a narrower alternative.
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FireHydrant fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | $25/user/mo |
| On-call scheduling | Yes |
| Escalation policies | Yes |
| Status page | Advanced |
| Post-incident reviews | Yes |
| Stakeholder updates | Yes |
| ChatOps incident actions | Yes |
| Free trial | 14 days · no card needed |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web |
| Compliance & security | SOC 2, SSO/SAML |
| Support | Tickets, Docs |
| Built for | Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 20 integrations: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira Cloud, Jira Server, ServiceNow, PagerDuty … See all → |
| Pricing | Free plan · 14-day trial (source) |
| Website | firehydrant.com |
| Facts checked | 23 Sep 2026 |
FireHydrant integrations
FireHydrant lists 20 integrations on its own site.
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira Cloud
- Jira Server
- ServiceNow
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Splunk On-Call (VictorOps)
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Alertmanager
- Bugsnag
- Honeycomb
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Webex
- GitHub
- Kubernetes
- Zendesk
- Linear
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