--- title: "Blue Matador vs. SignalFX: Monitor faster and more easily for less" description: "Blue Matador vs. SignalFX: Blue Matador is a quicker, easier, and more affordable alternative to SignalFX for AWS cloud infrastructure monitoring." --- # SignalFX can be overwhelming. Blue Matador is the simple alternative. ## With Blue Matador, you can fully monitor your AWS environment in minutes. Perfect for startups and small teams. [![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) ![Joe Auty from FlipGive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QuotePic_FlipGive.png?width=100&name=QuotePic_FlipGive.png "Joe Auty from FlipGive") “Blue Matador’s 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 ![FlipGive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo300x75_FlipGive_ltgrey.png?width=200&height=50&name=Logo300x75_FlipGive_ltgrey.png "FlipGive") ## Blue Matador vs. SignalFX for infrastructure monitoring ### See how we compare side by side. | ** ** | **Blue Matador** | **SignalFX** | | --- | --- | --- | | **Pricing** | Starts at $10 / host / mo. | Starts at $15 / host / month (1-year subscriptions only) | | --- | --- | --- | | **Full-featured free tier** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Anomaly detection** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Kubernetes anomalies** | Yes | Enterprise tier only | | --- | --- | --- | | **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 | | --- | --- | --- | | **Resolution tips** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Advanced notification routing** | Yes | No | | --- | --- | --- | | **Graph visualizations** | Yes | Yes | | --- | --- | --- | ## Why startups are choosing Blue Matador ![Blue Matador vs. SignalFX pricing](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing_pricing.png?width=525&height=369&name=Landing_pricing.png "Blue Matador vs. SignalFX pricing") ### ML-based monitoring at an affordable price Blue Matador’s anomaly detection and automated alerting allow your team to get insights instantly, saving you time and money. ### Full monitoring coverage in minutes Just provide your read-only credentials, and Blue Matador will fully monitor your AWS environment instantly. ![Integrate with Blue Matador](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/landingpages/AWS_IAM_Role.png?width=1366&name=AWS_IAM_Role.png "Integrate with Blue Matador") ![Blue Matador anomalies, warnings, and alerts](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/K8s/K8s_root2.png?width=1226&name=K8s_root2.png "Blue Matador anomalies, warnings, and alerts") ### 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 startups and small teams are saying about Blue Matador ![Chris Budge from Shopper Approved](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/QuotePic_Chris_Budge_Shopper_Approved.png?width=60&height=60&name=QuotePic_Chris_Budge_Shopper_Approved.png "Chris Budge from Shopper Approved") ![Shopper Approved](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/customer/Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey.png?width=150&height=38&name=Logo300x75_Shopper_Approved_ltgrey.png "Shopper Approved") “Other provider’s platforms are overwhelming and at best are 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 ![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 ![Chris Kasten from Efficient Hire](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/pricing/QuotePic_Efficient_Hire.png?width=60&name=QuotePic_Efficient_Hire.png "Chris Kasten from Efficient Hire") ![Efficient Hire](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2020/pricing/Logo300x75_Efficient_Hire_ltgrey.png?width=150&name=Logo300x75_Efficient_Hire_ltgrey.png "Efficient Hire") “When you sign up for a free trial with other providers, 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**, 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](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) ** ## You’ll 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 SignalFX. 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