Blue Matador is the easy-to-use alternative to CloudWatch that takes the manual setup out of monitoring your AWS environment.
“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
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
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.
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.
What DevOps engineers and engineering leaders are saying about Blue Matador
“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
“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
“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 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
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
Blue Matador is the most hands-free, easy to use, and instantly effective way to fully monitor your AWS environment.
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.
