# Blue Matador Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Blue Matador Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Network Monitoring products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/165049/Watchdog --- # Blue Matador Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Integrations](#integrations)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Blue Matador ## What is Blue Matador? Set Up AWS Infrastructure Monitoring Instantly. For dev-focused teams with little dedicated ops, getting AWS Cloud monitoring set up for the first time is manual and cumbersome; it requires significant time and toil with a typical infrastructure monitoring tool. Blue Matador removes the burden of a complicated setup by automatically detecting and monitoring all of your AWS resources. Just hand it your AWS read-only credentials, and in minutes, it tracks resources, detects baselines, manages thre ## What is Blue Matador used for? [Network Monitoring](https://www.capterra.com/network-monitoring-software/) Overall rating Based on 3 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price $10 Per Feature, Per Month Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... 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[4.5 (255)](https://www.capterra.com/p/251336/ManageEngine-OpManager/reviews/) Starting Price $10 Per Feature, Per Month Starting Price $95 Flat Rate, Per Year Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 5.0 (3) Ease Of Use 4.6 (250) Value For Money 5.0 (3) Value For Money 4.6 (227) Customer Service 5.0 (3) Customer Service 4.5 (245) ## Blue Matador alternatives [4.4 (89)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172324/NetFlow-Analyzer/reviews/) Starting price $245.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 99% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.6 (254)](https://www.capterra.com/p/21581/PRTG-Network-Monitor/reviews/) Starting price $179.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 95% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [4.7 (343)](https://www.capterra.com/p/168192/Site24x7/reviews/) Starting price $10.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.4 (129)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172325/ManageEngine-OpUtils/reviews/) Starting price $138.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Alerts/Notifications Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges Anomaly Detection Automatically identify unusual behavior Bandwidth Monitoring Measure the actual bandwidth available on a local network (LAN or WiFi) Capacity Management Monitor service demand and performance to plan for adequate resources that meet business needs Dashboard Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics Incident Management Manage and track all disruptions and incidents Blue Matador 13 features Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges Automatically identify unusual behavior Measure the actual bandwidth available on a local network (LAN or WiFi) Monitor service demand and performance to plan for adequate resources that meet business needs Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics Manage and track all disruptions and incidents Receive data and information in real time Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks Continuously scan servers on a designated network to monitor health and search for any irregularities or failures Set and monitor service level agreements to ensure timely response and resolution Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes Track the availability time for a designated network or website over a given period of time Collect and analyze traffic data about website visitors Features 5.0 (3) 5.0 Based on 3 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 5.0 (3) Free Trial Free Version Basic $10.00 Per Feature,Per Month Value for money 5.0 (3) 5.0 Based on 3 reviews ## Integrations [ Slack](https://www.capterra.com/p/135003/Slack/)[ Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[ Datadog](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/)[ PagerDuty](https://www.capterra.com/p/125693/PagerDuty/)[ Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/)[ OpsGenie](https://www.capterra.com/p/170236/OpsGenie/)[ Chef Enterprise Automation Stack](https://www.capterra.com/p/170467/Chef/)[ Splunk On-Call](https://www.capterra.com/p/139957/VictorOps/) ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 5.0 (3) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 5.0 (3) 5.0 Based on 3 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 5.0 Based on 3 reviews Filter by rating 5(3) 4(0) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent AL Alexander L. TestOps Engineer Computer Software ### "Blue Matador shines a light into areas of your infrastructure you didn't know needed insight" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 29, 2019 Pros \- It's plug and play. I don't have to do anything other than set up AWS credentials, and I immediately get monitoring of my infrastructure. - I get predictive analysis and told when my infrastructure isn't behaving as expected. Cons \- It's not good for deep dives - it'll tell you what's wrong, but you still have to do the legwork on what's wrong for yourself. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. J" Jacob "BoomShadow" T. Site Reliability Engineering Team Manager Information Technology and Services ### "Saved our Kubernetes proverbial bacon!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 29, 2019 We had 1 particular outage where Blue Matador saved our bacon. The time from outage, to root cause identification, to resolution was less than 15 minutes. And most of that time was developers coding the fix and pushing! We wouldn't have been able to resolve things as quickly as this with any other monitoring tool that we've used in the past. Pros Blue Matador has completely replaced the heart of our monitoring & alerting operations. It doesn't try to do too much; it monitors AWS, Kubernetes, and our Linux servers specifically & it does it well! With the introduction of the 'projects' feature, the timeline view make information extremely insightful very quickly. We get relevant, anomaly-based alerts with quick links to root cause. I can't say enough good things! Cons The interface can feel a bit \_too\_ simplistic. If you're a power user, you'll feel compelled to search for options menus, configuration pages, and the like. You won't find many of them, and it might feel underwhelming. Don't let that get to you. Blue Matador works wonderfully and is plenty configurable. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. TS Tony S. Director of Technology Computer Software ### "The perfect AWS Companion" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 28, 2019 These guys are awesome. Not only do they have a great product but they stand by it. I'm 2 timezones away and whenever I had a goofy question or a problem I dropped it in Slack and they hopped on it immediately. 10/10 Would recommend them to anyone at any size that uses AWS, 15/10 for SMBs. Pros The setup is painless and nearly instant, especially if you already utilize AWS tags. The notification algorithm is fantastic at letting you know when there is an issue without subjecting you to notification fatigue. The ability to have multiple configurations for different environments is key to making sure test or staging systems don't drown out production. Cons The only suggestion I had for improvement they took to heart and made some awesome changes. When they redid the dashboard and implemented the project features my only criticisms went away. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. 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