Celebrating five years of marbot

Five years ago, we released marbot - ChatOps for AWS . Back in the day, marbot connected Amazon CloudWatch and Slack to spread alerts among your team members. Today, marbot configures AWS monitoring rules, receives alerts from any AWS service, and provides context to solve incidents quickly in Slack and Microsoft Teams. A big thank you to all our customers who trust marbot. Some of them have been using marbot since day one. More than 1,000 teams close 7,500+ alerts every week. Thousands of AWS accounts are monitored by marbot.

In this post, I summarize the history of marbot and provide an outlook of what is coming.

Past

2016

• marbot wins the Serverless Chatbot Competition 2016
• marbot is generally available

2017

• Launch of marbot plus with a 14-day free trial
• Technical insight 1: Serverless Chatbot architecture for marbot
• Launch of alert aggregation
• marbot @ AWS re:invent

2018

• marbot @ AWS Summit Berlin
• Technical insight 2: JeffConfg Hamburg 2018 talk

2019

• Launch of runbooks
• Redesign
  
• Launch of AWS Marketplace integration to replace marbot plus
• marbot @ AWS re:invent

2020

• Launch of notifications
• AWS released a competing product: AWS Chatbot
• Technical insight 3: Isolate your dependencies
• Launch of marbot for Microsoft Teams

2021

• Over 100 AWS services are enriched with Quick Links.
• marbot has been running for more than five years

Future

The future of marbot has always been steered by customer demand and data.

Every one or two years, we reach out to all our customers and ask for feedback. What are areas that need improvement? Are new topics popping up that we should cover? Within the following days, we will start a new survey to gather up-to-date customer feedback. We will reach out to you in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

To celebrate 5 years of marbot, we created a brand new marbot t-shirt (sold out).

Take your AWS monitoring to a new level! Add marbot to Slack or Microsoft Teams and start your 14-day free trial. No credit card required.

Thanks for your support,
Andreas & Michael