A New Relic alternative that’s easy and affordable
Blue Matador is an affordable alternative to New Relic’s Infrastructure monitoring that takes the manual setup out of monitoring your AWS environment.
“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
Blue Matador vs New Relic for cloud monitoring
See how we compare side by side.
Blue Matador
New Relic
Pricing
Starts at $10 / host / mo.
Starts at $14.40 / host / month, broadly based on all cloud resources
Full-featured free tier
Yes
No
Anomaly detection
Yes
No
Automated insights
Yes
No
Automated alerting
Yes
No
Automated alert severity triage
Yes
No
Total setup time
Full monitoring coverage in <20 mins
Weeks to set up, years to maintain
Graph visualizations
Yes
Yes
Resolution tips
Yes
No
Advanced notification routing
Yes
No
Why engineering teams are choosing Blue Matador
Cloud monitoring at an affordable, fair price
Blue Matador provides straightforward, cost-effective pricing based solely on compute resources. Static bill, no throttling, scale friendly.
Full monitoring coverage in minutes
Just provide your read-only credentials, and Blue Matador will fully monitor your AWS environment instantly.
ML-based monitoring. No manual config required.
Blue Matador leverages ML to provide 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
“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 of people to do Blue Matador’s job.”
Skyler Cain, VP of Product & Technology at RentDynamics
“Blue Matador approach is really great, particularly for us startups! Other providers take 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
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)
You’ll 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 New Relic.
