--- title: "Blue Matador vs. Datadog: Monitor faster and more easily" description: "Blue Matador vs. Datadog: Blue Matador is a quicker, easier, and more affordable alternative to Datadog for AWS cloud infrastructure monitoring." --- # A Datadog alternative that's easy and affordable ## Blue Matador is a cost-effective alternative to Datadog 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) ![QuotePic_Efficient_Hire](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/pricing/QuotePic_Efficient_Hire.png?width=100&name=QuotePic_Efficient_Hire.png "QuotePic_Efficient_Hire") “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 ![Efficient Hire](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/pricing/Logo300x75_Efficient_Hire_ltgrey.png?width=200&height=50&name=Logo300x75_Efficient_Hire_ltgrey.png "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 ![Blue Matador vs. Datadog pricing](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing_pricing.png?width=525&height=369&name=Landing_pricing.png "Blue Matador vs. Datadog pricing") ### 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. ![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 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 ![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 ![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 ![Christopher Budge from Shopper Approved](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QuotePic_Shopper_Approved.png?width=60&name=QuotePic_Shopper_Approved.png "Christopher Budge from Shopper Approved") ![Shopper Approved](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey.png?width=150&name=Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey.png "Shopper Approved") “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](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. ## **Get cost-effective infrastructure monitoring **without the manual setup and continual maintenance required from Datadog. 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