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No manual setup, no constant maintenance—just immediate insight and visibility into your Kubernetes cluster

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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

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

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
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.

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Blue Matador monitoring dashboard

DevOps engineers and engineering leaders get time back with Blue Matador.

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

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
Amazon EKS
kops
AKS
GKE

See Blue Matador's difference right away.

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

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

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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