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title: How is Blue Matador different?
description: Blue Matador tells you where to look, not the other way around. Where most infrastructure monitoring tools are very good at helping you visualize your data and manually configure alerts, they fall short in alerting you to potential issues that you didn’t configure them to look for.
image: https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/logo-1.png
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# How is Blue Matador different?

Automated, no config monitoring right out of the box

## Blue Matador will tell you where to look, not the other way around

Where most infrastructure monitoring tools are very good at helping you visualize your data and manually configure alerts, they fall short in alerting you to potential issues that you didn’t configure them to look for.

![Blue Matador will tell you where to look, not the other way around](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/-test/HOW-WE-ARE-DIFFERENT%20.png?width=1211&name=HOW-WE-ARE-DIFFERENT%20.png "Blue Matador will tell you where to look, not the other way around")

![Blue Matador augments and enhances your existing monitoring tools](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/-test/HOW-WE-ARE-DIFFERENT-enhances.png?width=1028&name=HOW-WE-ARE-DIFFERENT-enhances.png "Blue Matador augments and enhances your existing monitoring tools")

## Blue Matador augments and enhances your existing monitoring tools

Blue Matador adds a layer of confidence knowing that it is watching all the things that you didn’t configure your other tools to watch. With other tools you may have anxiety about your monitoring coverage, but with Blue Matador you can rest easy knowing it will catch any issues.

![Blue Matador](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/-test/BlueMatador-528x140.png?width=528&name=BlueMatador-528x140.png "Blue Matador")

![Proactive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/difference/bluematador-different-Proactive.png?width=198&name=bluematador-different-Proactive.png "Proactive")

## **Proactive**

Alert you before an issue becomes an incident

![Automated](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/difference/bluematador-different-Automated.png?width=165&name=bluematador-different-Automated.png "Automated")

## **Automated**

Autonomously regulates alerting thresholds based on your systems’ baselines

![Discover unknowns](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/difference/bluematador-different-Discover-unknowns.png?width=198&name=bluematador-different-Discover-unknowns.png "Discover unknowns")

## **Discover unknowns**

Out-of-the-box, AWS resources are identified and potential issues and misconfigurations are recognized

![Other Tools](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/-test/Other-Tools-528x140.png?width=528&name=Other-Tools-528x140.png "Other Tools")

![Reactive](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/difference/bluematador-different-Reactive.png?width=198&name=bluematador-different-Reactive.png "Reactive")

## **Reactive**

Visualize data to diagnose live issues       

![Manual](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/difference/bluematador-different-Manual.png?width=198&name=bluematador-different-Manual.png "Manual")

## **Manual**

Users manually set static thresholds based on past experience                                      

![Monitor knowns](https://www.bluematador.com/hs-fs/hubfs/www/difference/bluematador-different-Monitor-knowns.png?width=198&name=bluematador-different-Monitor-knowns.png "Monitor knowns")

## **Monitor knowns**

Users setup monitoring for past issues based on previous postmortems

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