Blue Matador is a cost-effective alternative to Datadog that takes the manual setup out of monitoring your AWS environment.
“When you sign up for a free trial with Datadog, they throw 18 links at you and then tell you that you should probably hire someone to manage their product for you. Blue Matador was so simple and easy in comparison.”
– Chris Kasten, Director of cloud infrastructure at Efficient Hire
Blue Matador vs. Datadog for infrastructure monitoring
See how we compare side-by-side.
Blue Matador
Datadog
Pricing
Starts at $10 / host / mo.
Starts at $15 / host / mo.
Full-featured free tier
Yes
No
Anomaly detection
Yes
Enterprise only ($2,300 / mo. minimum)
Automated insights
Yes
Enterprise only ($2,300 / mo. minimum)
Automated alerting
Yes
No
Automated alert severity triage
Yes
No
Total setup time
Full monitoring coverage in <20 mins
Weeks to set up, years of maintenance
Graph visualizations
Yes
Yes
Resolution tips
Yes
No
Advanced notification routing
Yes
No
Why engineering teams are choosing Blue Matador
ML-based monitoring at an affordable price
Blue Matador provides anomaly detection and automated alerting without the enterprise-level sticker shock.
Full 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 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.
What DevOps engineers and engineering leaders are saying about Blue Matador
“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
“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
“Datadog’s platform itself is overwhelming and at best is information overload 101. From the simpler interface to the helpful recommendations that it gives you to troubleshoot issues, Blue Matador fits our team better.”
Christopher Budge, VP of Engineering at Shopper Approved
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.
Get cost-effective infrastructure monitoring without the manual setup and continual maintenance required from Datadog.
