Aurora vs Rootly
Aurora and Rootly are both incident management software. Aurora is open source under Apache-2.0, with 451 GitHub stars. Rootly is a commercial product from Rootly.
Which to pick
- Pick Aurora when
- An SRE team wants to trial self-hosted AI root-cause analysis across clouds.
- Pick Rootly when
- A fast-moving engineering team wants configurable incident workflows in Slack as an alternative to incident.io.
Side by side
An AI incident investigation tool where LangGraph agents query AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and monitoring tools to suggest root causes, integrated with PagerDuty, Datadog and Slack.
Slack-based incident management with workflows, on-call, retrospectives, status pages and AI assistance.
Created in 2026, and agents need broad read access to your cloud accounts.
It is a young vendor in a crowded category.
Experimental
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Python, TypeScript and LangGraph
Not published
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Rootly
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
451 GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Young: started 9 months ago, latest release v1.5.14.
Not known
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.