--- title: "Blue Matador vs. CloudWatch: Monitor faster and more easily" description: "Blue Matador vs. CloudWatch: Blue Matador is a quicker, easier alternative to CloudWatch for AWS monitoring. Get a 14-day free trial." --- # A CloudWatch alternative with zero manual setup ## Blue Matador is the easy-to-use alternative to CloudWatch that takes the manual setup out of monitoring your AWS environment. [![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) ![Chris Budge of Shopper Approved](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/QuotePic_Chris_Budge_Shopper_Approved.png?width=100&name=QuotePic_Chris_Budge_Shopper_Approved.png "Chris Budge of Shopper Approved") “I’m sitting there looking at CloudWatch and thinking, ‘This absolutely sucks.’ Don’t get me wrong, CloudWatch is fantastic from a customizability aspect, but with Blue Matador you just sign-in with your AWS account and generate that read-only key and you’re off to the races.” **– Christopher Budge**, VP of Engineering at Shopper Approved ![Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey.png?width=200&height=50&name=Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey.png "Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey") ## Blue Matador vs. CloudWatch for AWS monitoring ### See how we compare side-by-side. | ** ** | **Blue Matador** | **CloudWatch** | | --- | --- | --- | | **Pricing** | Straightforward: $10 / host / mo. | Confusing at best | | --- | --- | --- | | **Total setup time** | Full monitoring coverage in <20 mins. | Weeks of setup, constant maintenance | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated insights** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated alerting ** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Anomaly detection ** | Automatically enabled | Requires manual setup, limited to standard deviation | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated alert severity triage** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Resolution tips** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Out-of-the-box notification integrations** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Single pane of glass** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | ## Why engineering teams are choosing Blue Matador ![Machine-learning-based monitoring without the manual setup](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/Serverless_Troubleshoot.png "Machine-learning-based monitoring without the manual setup") ### ML-based monitoring without the manual setup Blue Matador provides anomaly detection and automated alerting out-of-the-box, without any manual configuration needed. ### Full AWS monitoring coverage in minutes Just provide your read-only credentials, and Blue Matador will fully monitor your AWS environment instantly. ![AWS IAM role](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/landingpages/AWS_IAM_Role.png?width=1366&name=AWS_IAM_Role.png "AWS IAM role") ![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 AWS monitoring set up in less than 20  minutes. ### AWS 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) ## What DevOps engineers and engineering leaders are saying about Blue Matador ![Dane Walsh from Skynamo](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QuotePic_%20Dane_Walsh_Skynamo.png?width=60&height=60&name=QuotePic_%20Dane_Walsh_Skynamo.png "Dane Walsh from Skynamo") ![Skynamo](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo300x75_Skynamo_ltgrey.png?width=150&height=38&name=Logo300x75_Skynamo_ltgrey.png "Skynamo") “Given the pain that we've been through previously in trying to set up CloudWatch, Blue Matador is a treat to work with. The value we've seen in a short time has been superb.” **Dane Walsh**, Head of Development at Skynamo ![Joe Auty from FlipGive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QuotePic_FlipGive.png?width=60&name=QuotePic_FlipGive.png "Joe Auty from FlipGive") ![FlipGive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo300x75_FlipGive_ltgrey.png?width=150&name=Logo300x75_FlipGive_ltgrey.png "FlipGive") “The Blue Matador approach is really great, particularly for us startups! Other providers take the 'Here's 500 metrics, have at it" approach, whereas Blue Matador takes a 'Here's what is relevant right now' approach.” **Joe Auty**, Senior DevOps Engineer at FlipGive ![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 ## 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) ** ## 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. ## **Simple, automated AWS monitoring **without the manual setup and continual maintenance required from CloudWatch. 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