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Followers86

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Boundary vs Scout: What are the differences?

Developers describe Boundary as "Real-time monitoring for server and applications with beatiful UI". Monitor it all: web servers, load balancers, application back-ends, big data clusters, queues, caching nodes, or databases. Boundary provides insights no matter what stack you use, whether you deploy in the cloud or your data center. On the other hand, Scout is detailed as "Application Monitoring that Developers Love". Scout is application monitoring that points developers right to the source of problems: N+1 database queries, memory bloat, performance trends, and more Scout eliminates much of the investigation part when performance woes occur. .

Boundary and Scout belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Boundary are:

Monitor Servers and Applications in real-time
Generate Alarms
Customizable Dashboards

On the other hand, Scout provides the following key features:

Monitors Ruby & Elixir apps with more languages to come
Easy install
Detailed transaction traces

"Great Visualization" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Boundary, while over 9 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Scout.

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Pros of Scout

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Easy setup
4
Great Visualization
3
1 second resolution
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Automatic Dependency Mapping
2
Easy to use

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Easy setup
5
Plugins
3
Affordable
1
Custom Scopes
1
GIT Integration
1
Local Developer Tracing
1
Profiles Ruby Memory Usage
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Heroku Integration

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What is Boundary?

Monitor it all: web servers, load balancers, application back-ends, big data clusters, queues, caching nodes, or databases. Boundary provides insights no matter what stack you use, whether you deploy in the cloud or your data center.

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.

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Jobs that mention Boundary and Scout as a desired skillset

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Intelligence

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Software Engineer II (Backend), Data Encryption

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Engineering Manager, Workspaces

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Bangalore, India

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Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

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Bangalore, India

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Design Manager, API Platform

Postman

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Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Management

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What are some alternatives to Boundary and Scout?

New Relic

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Kibana

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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.

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