Request Tracker
Built for Teams. Trusted for Decades. Open for Good.


Ticketing Reimagined
Organizations of all sizes use Request Tracker to track and manage workflows, customer requests, and internal project tasks. With seamless email integration, custom ticket lifecycles, configuraable automation, and detailed permissions and roles, RT serves the needs of your customers, your staff, and you.
See how organizations of all sizes rely on Request Tracker every day.
Real teams. Real workflows. Real results.
From Email Overload to Campus-Wide Clarity
A regional university replaced a tangle of inboxes and spreadsheets with a single system that every department could use and trust.
SecurityAhead of the Flood
A university security team transitioned from reactive chaos to controlled incident management using RT’s structured workflow system.
Cloud ManagementTurning Cloud Confusion Into Cost Savings
A managed services provider used RT to track cloud commitments and reduce costs by proactively managing expiring agreements.
No More Dropped Balls
An HR team streamlined employee onboarding and offboarding through automated workflows in a single centralized system.
Professional ServicesOne System for Every Team
A growing professional services firm consolidated five departmental tools into RT, recovering implementation costs through software savings within a year.
Introducing RT 6
Powerful, flexible, and faster than ever – RT 6 is the next generation of our open source ticketing system. Designed for teams that need control without the bloat, RT 6 simplifies your workflows while scaling with your organization
Your Deployment, Your Choice

Deployment
Choose from Cloud RT, on-premise, or self-hosted in the cloud. We offer flexible options and simple plans to help you get up and running quickly.

Support
Plans for both on-premise deployments and fully-managed services.

Code
The source code and API are completely open! You are free to customize RT and integrate with other systems and tools.
Ditch the Shared Inbox
All of the support tools you need. None of the bloat. Request Tracker is a fast, flexible alternative to heavy, high-cost helpdesk platforms that feature gate.
New from our Blog
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Announcing End of Life Dates for RT 4.4 and RTIR 4.0
The Request Tracker 4.4 series (first released in February of 2016) and Request Tracker for Incident Response 4.0 series (first released in July 2016) will reach end of life on November 1, 2025. After this date, Best Practical will no longer support these series or publish any new releases with security updates, bug fixes, or…
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RT 6 Beta Coming Soon: New Features Preview
Exciting news for the Request Tracker (RT) community—RT 6 is coming soon, and we’re getting closer to the public beta release! As we reported on the forum, we’ve been running RT 6 on our own RT instance, and it’s made updating tickets fun as we work with the new features! While we finalize the last…
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Manage your Splunk Alerts and Event in Request Tracker
If you run Splunk for observability, you can easily integrate with Request Tracker (RT) or RTIR with the RT connector app available right in Splunkbase. This integration is designed to automatically create new tickets from alerts, allowing you to effectively assign and manage incidents, ensuring that your team is always on top of issues as…