Packetbeat vs Scout: What are the differences?

Packetbeat: Open Source application monitoring & packet tracing system. Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions; Scout: 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. .

Packetbeat and Scout are primarily classified as "Network Monitoring" and "Performance Monitoring" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Packetbeat are:

• Packetbeat Statistics: Contains high-level views like the network topology, the application layer protocols repartition, the response times repartition, and others
• Packetbeat Search: This page enables you to do full text searches over the indexed network messages
• Packetbeat Query Analysis: This page demonstrates more advanced statistics like the top N slow SQL queries, the database throughput or the most common MySQL erro

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

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

Packetbeat is an open source tool with 7.4K GitHub stars and 2.51K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Packetbeat's open source repository on GitHub.