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What is New Relic?New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.
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What is Skylight?Skylight is a smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance across all of your servers.
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What is Scout?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.
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3018 Companies Using New Relic
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38 Companies Using Skylight
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23 Companies Using Scout
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Reviews of New Relic, Skylight, and Scout
Rails app profiling setup in a minute
January 16, 2017 01:59
If you follow the registration flow you end up with running analytics virtually in a minute. Awesome first experience.
I don't have my application in production so I needed to enable skylight in development, but Skylight navigated me nicely to the exact paragraph of a documentation, which helped.
No frills, easy to setup hosted monitoring that doesn't cost big bucks
September 29, 2014 09:21
I'm a freelance developer with a handful of servers that needed insightful monitoring and alerts. I searched high and low across both hosted and self hosted solutions... paid and open source. While many are quite capable the self-hosted solutions were clunky and overkill. The few self-hosted for pay solutions costs structure were completely outside of a freelances budget. ScoutApp is the first that had the easy to use setup, amazing plugins for specific app monitoring and the price was actually affordable. Setup couldn't be easier. Plugins are handled amazingly with a single click that initiates the agent to install remotely. The interface is minimal and easy to read. Triggers are so well done and easy to setup with clear human language detailing the alert criteria. Real-time graphing is just icing on the cake.
ScoutApp is great for not just small but enterprise level infrastructures as well. Added features such as roles, multi-user accounts, environments and even an API make growing with it a no brainer.
Very well done and highly recommended.
Ease of Mind
October 14, 2014 06:25
This is the second company where I've used Scout to monitor critical infrastructure. I love how easy it is to get setup and to being getting valuable feedback from our systems. Highly recommended!
Set-up Wide-Scale Monitoring in minutes; Great Customer Support.
November 18, 2014 13:15
We migrated our infrastructure monitoring to Scout about six months ago when our previous monitoring solution became unreliable and cumbersome to maintain. We were pleasantly surprised at the ease of implementation and the library of plugins already available.
The fine grain polling frequency and long term metric logging helped us maintain the high level of uptime our application requires. Moreover, due to the nature of the Scout protocol, changes to our specific application monitoring can be configured at a high level in their interface with a few clicks.
For the few times we have been in communication with their support team to help sort our questions or clarify details, we have been thoroughly impressed at their response time and personalized attention to our needs.
We highly recommend using Scout.
Better than NewRelic
January 18, 2015 07:57
I used to have NewRelic on https://doorbell.io for my monitoring. It worked pretty well for the basic things, and the basic plan is free.
However, as https://doorbell.io's stack got increasingly complicated, the plugins of NewRelic didn't work as well as I needed, in order to reliably monitor all aspects of the platform.
I decided to try out Scout as an alternative, since even though it doesn't have a free plan, the basic plan is only $8/month (compared to $149 for NewRelic).
I found the interface to be really good, and they have great documentation. I found plugins for every single part of my stack, and they all worked very easily "out of the box". And best of all, added practically no overhead to the server!
So overall, I'd say it's a service that's well worth paying for. It's a steal at $8/month!
How we use Scout at Rollbar
February 03, 2015 15:38
We love Scout at Rollbar. Here's how we use it.
Zero configuration monitoring for new hosts
We have added Scout to our Ansible configuration for new host setup. So, when we provision a new machine, we get basic monitoring without any extra configuration. Once the host is up and running, we add it to the appropriate role in Scout and all of our monitoring plugins are magically deployed and enabled on the new host.
Monitoring HTTP response codes
One of the best things about Scout is how beautiful and therefore usable their graphs are. We have a Scout dashboard which shows all of our response codes which allows us to quickly see connections between different hosts when problems occur.
Custom plugins!
Scout's plugin model makes it really easy to extend. We have implemented our own log monitoring plugin which reports metrics like the 90th percentile of slow queries on our site. These types of plugins allow us to see issues at a glance during deploys, maintenance and load spikes.
Slowly taking over Nagios
Nagios is amazing, but let's be real... Anyone who has used it knows how painful it is to set up, administer and extend. We are in the process of cutting over from Nagios to Scout to handle more of our infrastructure monitoring and soon, alerting.
Scout worked well for a very small shop
March 31, 2015 08:39
We are a very small non profit with a very simple server setup. Our two developers do not have any special training as sys admins. But it was very easy to get setup with Scout and start some simple monitoring of our servers. Most of what we do is check that some key processes are running and that our URLs are up. It was easy to do all of that with Scout. That said: we're interested in learning more about Scout's capabilities and doing more sophisticated server monitoring down the line.
How developers use New Relic vs Skylight vs Scout
MaxCDN uses New Relic
How do you know what parts of the workflow need improvement? Measure it. With New Relic in place, we have graphs of our API performance and can directly see if a server or zone is causing trouble, and the impact of our changes. There’s no comparison between a real-time performance graph and “Strange, the site seems slow, I should tail the logs”.
Pathwright uses New Relic
Server and application performance monitoring, alerting, and page/background task tuning.
nrise uses New Relic
어플리케이션 서버 및 각종 서버들을 모니터링하는데 이만한 툴이 없습니다. 어플리케이션 서버의 퍼포먼스 드릴다운 모니터링이나 각 서버들의 활성화 상태를 모니터링 하는 용도로 사용합니다.
StackShare uses New Relic
Free Heroku add-on. Not particularly useful for us. Rails profilers tend to do a better job at the app level. And I can never really figure out what’s going on with Heroku by looking at New Relic. I don’t know if we’re just not using New Relic correctly or if it really does just suck for our use case. But I guess some insight is better than none.
Kalibrr uses New Relic
We monitor and troubleshoot our app's performance using New Relic, which gives us a great view into each type of request that hits our servers. It also gives us a nice weekly summary of error rates and response times so that we know how well we've done in the past week.
Foundbite uses New Relic
We use NewRelic for monitoring our APIs, it's free with Windows Azure which is super!
stevepaulo uses New Relic
I'm trying to wring more instrumentation out of New Relic as it pertains to Rack, but for the time being, New Relic is monitoring/alerting uptime and some basic performance metrics.
jegesh uses New Relic
We hooked New Relic up to monitor the health or our servers and containers, as well as track the actual app performance.
RocketFuel uses New Relic
New Relic is used both to monitor availability and to find potential candidates for optimization.
jflynn33 uses New Relic
Just like we care about errors, we care about metrics - especially around performance. You'd be crazy not to use it - and not surprisingly, it's a one-click add-on in Heroku.
StackShare uses Skylight
When we were facing performance issues with the new StackShare app. We originally thought it was a server issue. So we did quite a bit of research to see how many dynos we should be using for the sort of application we have and traffic profile. We couldn’t find anything useful online so I ended up asking my buddy Alain over at BlockScore. After a quick convo with him, I knew we should be totally fine with just 2 dynos.
We also tested the theory by increasing the number of dynos and running the load tests. They had little to no effect on error rate, so this also confirmed that it wasn’t a server issue.
So that meant it was an application issue. New Relic wasn’t any help. I spoke with another friend who suggested we use a profiler. We totally should have been using one all along. We added mini-profiler, which was great for identifying slow queries and overall page load times. We also had the Rails Chrome extension so we could see how long view rendering was taking. So we cleaned up the slowest queries.
We tried to use mini-profiler in production on the new StackShare app and for some reason, we couldn’t get it to work. We were in a time crunch so I asked Alain what they used and he said that they use Skylight in production. Funny enough, I remembered the name Skylight because we listed it on the site a while back. So we did that, and at first we couldn’t really see how it was useful. Then we realized what we were seeing were a ton of repeat queries on some of the pages we load tested.
Skylight is cool because it sort of gives you the full MVC profile. We were able to pinpoint specific db queries that being repeated. So we cleaned those up pretty quickly. But then we noticed the views were taking up all the load time, so we start implementing caching more aggressively. After we cleaned up the db queries and added more caching, our pages went from this: 
to this: 
Skylight ended up being super useful. We use it in production now.
Hund uses Skylight
An essential for determining production performance. It provides us with clear insights into what might be slowing down responses so we know exactly what to fix.
The Lens uses Scout
We are a very small non profit with a very simple server setup. Our two developers do not have any special training as sys admins. That said, it was very simple to get setup with Scout and start some simple monitoring of our servers. Most of what we do is check that some key processes are running and that our URLs are up. But we're interested in learning more aboutS Scout's capabilities/ doing more sophisticated server monitoring down the line.
