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PagerDuty gives you an incident agent.
Cleric gives you a learning system for production.

PagerDuty SRE Agent responds to incidents, while Cleric learns from incidents, alerts, tickets, and the rest of your production environment.

Four dimensions that matter in production

Investigation surface

Cleric

Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.

PagerDuty SRE Agent

Incident response plus connected context from observability, automation, and cloud tools.

Definition of an issue

Cleric

Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.

PagerDuty SRE Agent

Strongest when there is already an incident to respond to.

Integrations

Cleric

No walled garden. If a system has an API or MCP server, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.

PagerDuty SRE Agent

Broad integrations across observability, automation, and cloud tools, but the operating model still centers the incident loop.

Compounding knowledge and accuracy

Cleric

Measured against real outcomes, with more accuracy and less human intervention over time.

PagerDuty SRE Agent

Learns from incident history, shared memory, and approved automations.

PagerDuty SRE Agent is an agent. Cleric is an autonomous learning system.

Stage
Cleric
PagerDuty SRE Agent

Orient

Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.

Autonomous, human gated
Not covered

Detect

Recognizes a meaningful production issue.

Autonomous
Autonomous

Investigate

Correlates evidence to explain what happened.

Autonomous
Manual

Act / escalate

Takes action or routes to the right human.

Autonomous, human gated
Autonomous, human gated

Verify

Checks whether the fix actually worked.

Autonomous
Not covered

Learn

Improves future work from resolved outcomes.

Autonomous
Manual

Orient

Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.

Cleric
Autonomous, human gated
PagerDuty SRE Agent
Not covered

Detect

Recognizes a meaningful production issue.

Cleric
Autonomous
PagerDuty SRE Agent
Autonomous

Investigate

Correlates evidence to explain what happened.

Cleric
Autonomous
PagerDuty SRE Agent
Manual

Act / escalate

Takes action or routes to the right human.

Cleric
Autonomous, human gated
PagerDuty SRE Agent
Autonomous, human gated

Verify

Checks whether the fix actually worked.

Cleric
Autonomous
PagerDuty SRE Agent
Not covered

Learn

Improves future work from resolved outcomes.

Cleric
Autonomous
PagerDuty SRE Agent
Manual

Bottom line

PagerDuty SRE Agent responds once an incident is already underway. Cleric is a learning system for production, not just an incident agent. That is the difference between improving incident response and improving how your environment gets understood over time.

See how Cleric investigates your production issues

Setup takes minutes. Read-only by default. See how Cleric investigates production issues across your full stack.