Blue Matador Reviews

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Its intuitive interface ensures even non-technical users can easily navigate and set up monitoring.

The AI-driven insights provided by Blue Matador are invaluable.

They offer proactive suggestions and predictive analysis, enshancing overall system efficiency.

It just kind of works out of the box and surfaces issues we weren't even aware we should be monitoring.

Limited customization options currently.

Our entire AWS account is primarily monitored with Blue Matador. We saved the headache of creating and customizing hundreds of alerts. Without Blue Matador it would have been a lengthy trial and error process.

Ease of setup, and immediate results. You can get this into your ecosystem very quickly. The functionality once it is up is very targeted, easy to assimilate into Operations, and immediately useful. Very well engineered, but also extremely cost effective as well.

It's not a full APM solution (yet). It does pair very well with the elastic.co APM stack however, and has allowed us to move off a much more expensive, cumbersome New Relic environment. While the cost is very good, you will have to account for a companion solution to handle the full stack that an APM typically covers.

Alerting and catching trends in our infrastructure are the key benefits. We have full visibility across our stack, from Lambdas to K8s to RDS that give us real confidence. We didn't have to setup the alerts, so there wasn't something that could have been missed in the config. It's like a warm blanket of technology protecting your stack.

Their support both pre and post-sales has been excellent. They keep in touch and ask how we are getting on with the product. They come back with responses straight away if you ask any questions . Blue Matador are actively updating their product frequently with new features and include your suggestions into their backlog. What I like most about Blue Matador is the personal service, which I think is really important for a smaller company like us. They ask about what you do and what you use cloud services for and tune their service appropriately.

I cant think of anything I dislike. Its been a really good experience so far.

If you are looking for a cloud monitoring service and if you are a smaller company that requires more support than one with more resources then I would definitely recommend Blue Matador

We now have a fully monitored cloud service in terms of infrastructure, which gives us reassurance that we didn't have before because of our knowledge gap in this area.

There are a lot of different monitoring tools out there, and I've tried all the top names that you can think of. Blue Matador is the best, my favorite, hands down, period. You won't find a tool that gets out of your way and does one thing really really well: monitor everything!

Blue Matador's deployment time to your infrastructure is minutes. Not hours or days. With both the cloud provider integration, and the servers-side agent installed, you'll have a complete view of everything happening in your infrastructure. There is no messing around with complex configs, setting trigger thresholds, inventory groups, or fiddling with a hundred different screens in a web UI. As said before, Blue Matador gets out of your way and monitors.

It monitors all kinds of things including lots that I'd forget if I were building a monitoring solution by myself. Lots of integrations that I've found to be useful. After using Blue Matador, it would be hard to go back to setting up and maintaining monitoring systems myself.

I wish there were a startup plan of some sort. The price is reasonable for businesses though.

Blue Matador monitors your resources without you having to think about it.

The ease of setup and configuration, followed closely by the responsiveness of the team.

It is VERY chatty when something is wrong. But, that's probably also a good thing. There are configurations settings to attenuate the noise if you so choose.

The ease of setup and configuration cannot be overstated. It's literally about a 10 minute process to get setup and configured, then you just wait for it to discover your infrastructure and start reporting. If you're looking for a smooth and seamless way to gain visibility into what's going on with your infrastructure, this is a great way to go.

Infrastructure observability, misconfiguration visibility, proactive issue notification

When a technology is sufficently advanced it tends to appear as if it were magic... Blue Matador is there with their dead easy setup. No really, I mean it. Can you type in 1 text field and copy/paste a command into the linux command-line? Yes? Boom done. Can you sign into your AWS account? Yes Boom done. It really is just that easy.

Even better, it automatically learns about your environment. Do YOU know what your typical burst usage is on an EC2 instance? Blue Matador will, and not only that, but it will alert you when it goes outside the normal AUTOMAGICALLY. That's right, no configuring page after page of limits and thresholds.

These guys are top notch. Blue Matador found things that I wasn't even aware of when I turned the monitoring on. Trying to figure out what all I needed to keep tabs on in AWS just by using CloudWatch was crazy. The setup required a single user in our AWS Account and the system took care of the rest.

The original dashboard was a little hard to work with. However, they fixed that with a great facelift. A facelift, that I might add, that they actively polled their customers to find out how to improve.

Take the time to setup your projects. While everything does work out of the box with almost no setup - it's nice to be able to turn things off and on by environment. If you're an AWS user - make sure your assets are tagged correctly - then the project setup is a breeze.

I use it to keep track of all the EC2 Containers in our environment and all the AWS services that go along with it. Being a small IT shop I can keep tabs on the application just fine but the infrastructure was a different story. We've gone from being able to complete 1 deployment every 4-6 weeks to begin able to deploy 8-10 times a day because our feedback loop is so short.

Based on feedback, from customers there are aspects of Blue Matador that are disturbing customers. Blue Matador has been obstructive for me as well. This tool has completely disturbed how I monitor my systems. Its alerting system needs to consistently resolve issues before they escalate into problems.

I dislike how it automates my monitoring tasks does not giving me time to focus on important aspects of my job. The non comprehensive insights and reports provided by Blue Matador make troubleshooting hectic.

Blue Matador claims to provide solutions for businesses it falls short in a areas. The platform lacks customization options, which limits its adaptability to needs. Lacks transparency making it difficult to determine the cost. Customer support is slow and unresponsive leading to frustration and a sense of being unsupported among users.