Raygun vs Scout

Raygun vs Scout: What are the differences?

Developers describe Raygun as "Use Raygun to track, manage, and report your software errors". Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users with greater speed and accuracy. 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. .

Raygun belongs to "Exception Monitoring" category of the tech stack, while Scout can be primarily classified under "Performance Monitoring".

Some of the features offered by Raygun are:

• Error, crash and performance monitoring, in one platform
• Support for every major programming language and platform
• Minutes to set up

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

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

"Easy setup and brilliant features" is the primary reason why developers consider Raygun over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Scout.

According to the StackShare community, Raygun has a broader approval, being mentioned in 44 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to Scout, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.