Nightingale vs Rootly
Nightingale and Rootly are both incident management software. Nightingale is open source under Apache-2.0, with 13k GitHub stars. Rootly is a commercial product from Rootly.
Which to pick
- Pick Nightingale when
- Ops teams want a central alerting console over existing metric and log stores, popular in China as an Alertmanager alternative.
- Pick Rootly when
- A fast-moving engineering team wants configurable incident workflows in Slack as an alternative to incident.io.
Side by side
A self-hosted alerting and monitoring platform that evaluates rules over Prometheus-compatible metrics, logs and databases and routes notifications, with an AI agent.
Slack-based incident management with workflows, on-call, retrospectives, status pages and AI assistance.
Much of the community and documentation is Chinese.
It is a young vendor in a crowded category.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Go, PostgreSQL, Redis and SQLite
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.
13k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v9.3.0.
Not known
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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.