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.

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

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. Want it to send you an email? It Will. Oh, but you're a Slack user and want it to post to a channel you say? Boom done, just sign in with Slack. Remember, setup is stupid easy, EVERYWHERE on this platform. You want to know why, the founder has been where we are. Got called during the birth of his child because the company he used to work for had their platform go down. Gets bugged that this occurred and decided to do something about it. BOOM Blue Matador is born. So a little while ago, my own child is born, guess what I wasn't doing, worrying about work. Blue Matador was doing it for me. Will it fix all your life problems, no it won't. But it will sure tell you that you have problems AND tell you some ways you can try to fix them. Trust me, you learn something just by using this platform. Things you never even knew about AWS for example, with their burst credits. They listen to their customers... No seriously, they are so dedicated to it, they set up a customer advisory panel that I am part of so that they could dedicate time to actually sitting down with both real clients and industry experts and hear what they have to say. We don't get compensated for this, we legitimately enjoy being able to be heard by a company for once.