As engineering teams face rising costs and inefficiencies with traditional incident management tools like PagerDuty and the upcoming sunset of Opsgenie in 2027, many are turning to modern alternatives such as incident.io, Rootly, and FireHydrant. These Slack-native platforms offer streamlined incident management by integrating alerting, coordination, status pages, and post-mortems within a single tool, reducing the coordination tax and minimizing context-switching. The shift from PagerDuty’s web-first architecture, which often requires using multiple tools, to a unified Slack-native approach can lead to significant cost savings and reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR). The transition to these alternatives also involves evaluating pricing, migration complexity, and AI capabilities, with incident.io standing out for its comprehensive Slack-native experience and AI-powered incident resolution. As teams reassess their incident management strategies, they are encouraged to consider the operational and financial benefits of these modern platforms, especially in light of upcoming forced migrations and the need for more efficient incident response mechanisms.