--- title: "Blue Matador vs. Prometheus: Monitor faster and more easily" description: "Blue Matador vs. Prometheus: Blue Matador is a quicker, easier alternative to Prometheus for Kubernetes monitoring. Get a 14-day free trial." --- # The automated Prometheus alternative you’ve been looking for ## No manual setup, no constant maintenance—just immediate insight and visibility into your Kubernetes cluster [![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) ![Michael Goode PinPoint](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/QuotePic_Michael_Goode_PinPoint.png?width=100&name=QuotePic_Michael_Goode_PinPoint.png "Michael Goode PinPoint") “Nothing else out there observes anomalies in Kubernetes like Blue Matador. The intercluster visibility is really good. With a tool like Prometheus, you’d have to figure that all out yourself.” **– Michael Goode**, Lead Platform Operations Engineer at Pinpoint ![Pinpoint](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/Logo300x75_Pinpoint_ltgrey.png?width=200&height=50&name=Logo300x75_Pinpoint_ltgrey.png "Pinpoint") ## Blue Matador vs. Prometheus for Kubernetes monitoring ### See how we compare side-by-side. | ** ** | **Blue Matador** | **Prometheus** | | --- | --- | --- | | **Total setup time** | Full monitoring coverage in <20 mins | Weeks to set up, years to maintain | | --- | --- | --- | | **Alert setup** | Automated | Manual | | --- | --- | --- | | **Management** | Fully managed by us | Managed by you (upgrades / updates / patches / releases) | | --- | --- | --- | | **Anomaly detection** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated insights** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Automated alert severity triage** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Graph visualizations** | Native | Grafana / Kibana | | --- | --- | --- | | **Cloud monitoring** | AWS & Azure | No | | --- | --- | --- | ## Why engineering teams are choosing Blue Matador ![Automatic Kubernetes setup](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/K8s_insights.png?width=1366&height=428&name=K8s_insights.png "Automatic Kubernetes setup") ### Automatic alert setup Just install our agent as a daemonset in your cluster and Blue Matador will automatically monitor all components of your Kubernetes cluster, finding issues like OOM containers, unhealthy deployments, failing nodes, and more. ### No ongoing maintenance As your Kubernetes cluster changes and scales, Blue Matador automatically covers new resources and changing configuration. No manual scaling or updating needed. ![Blue Matador automatically covers new resources](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/K8s_root2.png?width=1226&name=K8s_root2.png "Blue Matador automatically covers new resources") ![Blue Matador CPU usage and memory usage graphs](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/K8s-ViewHealth-Chart.png?width=1302&name=K8s-ViewHealth-Chart.png "Blue Matador CPU usage and memory usage graphs") ### Beautiful, preconfigured UI Blue Matador provides a beautiful, dark-mode, pre-configured dashboard and graph visualization out-of-the-box, no need to integrate with other graphing tools. ### Get full Kubernetes monitoring set up in less than 20 minutes. Kubernetes 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") ## DevOps engineers and engineering leaders get time back with Blue Matador. ![Jacob Tirey from Patrocinium](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/QuotePic_Jacob_Tirey_Patrocinium.png?width=100&name=QuotePic_Jacob_Tirey_Patrocinium.png "Jacob Tirey from Patrocinium") “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 ![Patrocinium](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/Logo300x75_Patrocinium_ltgrey.png?width=200&height=50&name=Logo300x75_Patrocinium_ltgrey.png "Patrocinium") ## Support for any cloud or platform. Blue Matador can monitor Kubernetes clusters running anywhere, whether you’re on AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-prem. ![AWS](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/Logo300x60-AWS.png?width=300&name=Logo300x60-AWS.png "AWS") ![Amazon EKS](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/Logo300x60-AmazonEKS.png?width=300&height=60&name=Logo300x60-AmazonEKS.png "Amazon EKS") ![kops](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/2020/K8s/Logo300x60-AmazonEKS%20Copy.png "kops") ![AKS](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/2020/K8s/Logo300x60-AKS.png "AKS") ![GKE](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/2020/K8s/Logo300x60-AmazonEKS%20Copy%203.png "GKE") ## 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 Kubernetes 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 instant Kubernetes monitoring without the manual setup and continual maintenance required from Prometheus. **Try Blue Matador and you’ll immediately see the difference. 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