Case Study: Patrocinium achieves actionable, zero-config alerting with Blue Matador

Automated Alerting With Zero Configuration When Moving To Kubernetes

Patrocinium Systems, an emergency event management platform based in Washington, D.C., needed a way to keep its Kubernetes-based microservices and AWS environment reliably monitored as it expanded. With a tiny on-call team and strict latency and uptime SLAs, the customer was struggling with noisy, non-actionable alerts from its previous all-in-one monitoring provider. Blue Matador was brought in to provide more actionable system monitoring and reduce alert fatigue.

Blue Matador automatically set up alerting and notifications for more than 140 events across Patrocinium’s Kubernetes clusters and AWS services in less than an hour, with zero configuration. The result was fewer false positives, better visibility into critical issues, and proactive detection of anomalies before they became incidents. Patrocinium also gained confidence to adopt new AWS services knowing Blue Matador would monitor them automatically, saving significant time and helping speed time to market.

Patrocinium

Jacob Tirey

Lead Site Reliability Engineer