What is Scout?
Scout APM helps developers quickly pinpoint & resolve performance issues before the customer ever sees them. Spend less time debugging & more time building with a streamlined interface & tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code.
Scout is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Who uses Scout?
Companies
47 companies reportedly use Scout in their tech stacks, including POP is putting People on Productions, Mathspace, and Zynga.
Developers
35 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Scout.
Scout Integrations
PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Flowdock, VictorOps, and Zenduty are some of the popular tools that integrate with Scout. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Scout.
Pros of Scout
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Scout's Features
- Monitors Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js & Elixir apps
- Easy install
- Detailed transaction traces
- Alerting
- Deploy Tracking
Scout Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Scout?
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Sentry
Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
