Instrumental vs Scout: What are the differences?

Developers describe Instrumental as "Visualize any aspect of your application performance, measure production code in real-time, and share with your entire team". Instrumental is a real-time application and server monitoring platform. With over a million datapoints processed every second, we're one of the highest scale monitoring services. 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. .

Instrumental and Scout can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Instrumental are:

• Application monitoring - we accept any volume of arbitrary data, making it easy to set up graphs to measure the performance of your application in real time
• Server monitoring - Ruby apps can use our instrumental tools gem to monitor information like CPU statistics, memory usage, disk space, and all the other things you'll need to monitor your servers. Language support - Ruby is supported using a custom library, and all other languages are supported with our Statsd backend
• RESTful API - upon authentication, data is collected and returned in strict JSON format

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

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

"Best, fastest, and easiest-to-use Interface" is the primary reason why developers consider Instrumental over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Scout.