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Instana vs Scout: What are the differences?
Developers describe Instana as "Automatic Application and Infrastructure Monitoring". Instana is the Application Performance Management solution for modern dynamic applications, using automation and AI to manage their service quality. 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. .
Instana and Scout belong to "Performance Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Instana are:
- Full integration into the Instana Dynamic Graph
- Relevant metric collection
- Fully AI enabled behavioral learning
On the other hand, Scout provides the following key features:
- Monitors Ruby & Elixir apps with more languages to come
- Easy install
- Detailed transaction traces
Pros of Instana
- Flexible pricing4
- Easy to integrate4
- Insight into RCA3
- Self service3
- Simple query interface2
- Automatic1
Pros of Scout
- Easy setup8
- Plugins5
- Affordable3
- Custom Scopes1
- GIT Integration1
- Local Developer Tracing1
- Profiles Ruby Memory Usage1
- Heroku Integration1
