--- title: "Blue Matador vs. Nagios: Monitor faster and more easily" description: "Blue Matador vs. Nagios: Blue Matador is a quicker, easier alternative to Nagios for server monitoring." --- # A Nagios alternative built for the cloud ## Blue Matador provides ML-based server monitoring for Linux and Windows VMs, plus instant coverage for all of your AWS and Azure resources [![START YOUR FREE TRIAL](https://hubspot-no-cache-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/3917309/1dbc7cc0-7660-466f-b424-754659baafd2.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/3917309/1dbc7cc0-7660-466f-b424-754659baafd2) ![Jacob Tirey from Patrocinium](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/QuotePic_Jacob_Tirey_Patrocinium.png?width=100&name=QuotePic_Jacob_Tirey_Patrocinium.png "Jacob Tirey from Patrocinium") “I don’t want to spend time setting up thresholds for each service, each node, what is too little memory, etc. I don’t want to be setting manual triggers on all my metrics. I can just install the agent and forget it. The ease of install and ease of use has been great.” **– Jacob Tirey**, Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Patrocinium ![Patrocinium](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/Logo300x75_Patrocinium_ltgrey.png?width=200&height=50&name=Logo300x75_Patrocinium_ltgrey.png "Patrocinium") ## Blue Matador vs. Nagios for server monitoring ### See how we compare side-by-side. | ** ** | **Blue Matador** | **Prometheus** | | --- | --- | --- | | **Total setup time** | Full monitoring coverage in <20 mins | Weeks to set up, years to maintain | | --- | --- | --- | | **Alert setup** | Automated | Manual | | --- | --- | --- | | **Management** | Fully managed by us | Managed by you (upgrades / updates / patches / releases) | | --- | --- | --- | | **Anomaly detection** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated insights ** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated alert severity triage** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Graph visualizations** | Yes | Yes | | --- | --- | --- | | **Cloud monitoring** | AWS & Azure | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Resolution tips** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Advanced notification routing** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | ## Why engineering teams are choosing Blue Matador ![Blue Matador monitors](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/landingpages/Linux-Monitors.png?width=1150&height=641&name=Linux-Monitors.png "Blue Matador monitors") ### Automatic alert setup Just install our agent on your hosts and Blue Matador will automatically monitor all components of your Linux/Windows servers, finding issues like CPU, disk, load, dropped packets, swapping, ulimits, dead processes and more. ### ML-based monitoring, no setup required Blue Matador provides anomaly detection and automated alerting, eliminating the manual setup and saving you time and toil. ![ML-based monitoring, no setup required](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/home/bm_prevent_issues2.png?width=1226&name=bm_prevent_issues2.png "ML-based monitoring, no setup required") ![Blue Matador Slack notification](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/home/Home-Get-insights.png?width=700&name=Home-Get-insights.png "Blue Matador Slack notification") ### Insights without the digging Blue Matador provides insights front and center; there's no need to manually set up alerts or monitor graphs and dashboards. ### Get infrastructure monitoring set up in less than 20 minutes. Infrastructure monitoring without the manual setup and constant maintenance. You'll see the difference 20 minutes into setting up your free 14-day trial. [![START MONITORING FREE](https://hubspot-no-cache-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/3917309/f4576638-a39e-4962-87e2-f4bba47a9c20.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/3917309/f4576638-a39e-4962-87e2-f4bba47a9c20) ![Blue Matador monitoring dashboard](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/how_it_works/HIW-Dashboard.png?width=1434&name=HIW-Dashboard.png "Blue Matador monitoring dashboard") ## What DevOps engineers and engineering leaders are saying about Blue Matador ![Skyler Cain from RentDynamics](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/pricing/QuotePic_Rent_Dynamics.png?width=60&name=QuotePic_Rent_Dynamics.png "Skyler Cain from RentDynamics") ![RentDynamics](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/pricing/Logo300x75_Rent_Dynamics_ltgrey.png?width=150&name=Logo300x75_Rent_Dynamics_ltgrey.png "RentDynamics") “We had all this data feeding into our previous monitoring tool, but it was like somebody had to go look at the tool. With Blue Matador, all the data is pulled in it actually draws correlations and gives us useful information, it’s invaluable. I would need to hire a couple people to do Blue Matador’s job.” **Skyler Cain**, VP of Product & Technology at RentDynamics ![Rob Smith from Foundant](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QuotePic_Foundant.png?width=60&name=QuotePic_Foundant.png "Rob Smith from Foundant") ![Foundant](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo300x75_Foundant_ltgrey.png?width=150&name=Logo300x75_Foundant_ltgrey.png "Foundant") “It would have taken us over a year and a whole lot more money to give us what Blue Matador provided at a really reasonable price.” **Rob Smith**, VP of Technology at Foundant ![Joe Auty from FlipGive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QuotePic_FlipGive.png?width=60&height=60&name=QuotePic_FlipGive.png "Joe Auty from FlipGive") ![FlipGive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo300x75_FlipGive_ltgrey.png?width=150&height=38&name=Logo300x75_FlipGive_ltgrey.png "FlipGive") “Blue Matador's approach is really great, particularly for us startups! Datadog takes the 'Here's 500 metrics—have at it' approach, while Blue Matador takes a 'Here's what is relevant right now' approach.” **Joe Auty**, Senior DevOps Engineer at FlipGive ## Hundreds of monitors, configured instantly. Blue Matador looks for hundreds of events across all of your AWS services, including EC2, RDS, ELB, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, and more. ![AWS](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/AWS/AWS-services-section.png?width=314&name=AWS-services-section.png "AWS") - **AWS API Gateway** - **AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)** - **AWS Athena** - **AWS Aurora** - **AWS Backup** - **AWS Batch** - **AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)** - **AWS CloudFront** - **AWS CloudWatch** - **AWS DynamoDB** - **AWS EC2 Auto Scaling** - **AWS Elastic Beanstalk** - **AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)** - **AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)** - **AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)** - **AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)** - **AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)** - **AWS ElastiCache** - **AWS Elasticsearch** - **AWS Elemental MediaConvert** - **AWS Fargate** - **AWS FSx** - **AWS IoT** - **AWS Kinesis** - **AWS Lambda** - **AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB)** - **AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)** - **AWS Route53** - **AWS Simple Email Service (SES)** - **AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)** - **AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS)** - **AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)** - **AWS Step Functions** - **AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ** ## You’ll see Blue Matador's difference right away. ![World's fastest setup](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/how_it_works/hiw_icon_worlds.png?width=100&height=100&name=hiw_icon_worlds.png "World's fastest setup") **World's fastest setup ** With other solutions, you have to spend a huge amount of time telling it what you want to monitor. Blue Matador watches everything immediately upon setup. ![No manual alarm creation](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/how_it_works/hiw_icon_no_manual.png?width=100&height=100&name=hiw_icon_no_manual.png "No manual alarm creation") **No manual alarm creation ** Blue Matador is the most hands-free, easy to use, and instantly effective way to fully monitor your AWS environment. ![World's fastest setup](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/how_it_works/hiw_icon_worlds.png?width=100&height=100&name=hiw_icon_worlds.png "World's fastest setup") **Constant vigilance ** If you scale up or launch more services, Blue Matador automatically detects and monitors your new resources without any input needed from you. ## **Get cost-effective server monitoring **without the manual setup and continual maintenance required from Nagios. 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