Scout vs TraceView

Overview

Scout

Stacks84

Followers86

Votes21

TraceView

Stacks8

Followers17

Votes7

Scout vs TraceView: What are the differences?

What is 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. .

What is TraceView? Ridiculously Detailed Application Monitoring. Expose everything, from the webserver to database, cache and API calls. The core technology is based on X-Trace, a distributed tracing framework that’s served as the inspiration for companies like Google and Twitter.

Scout and TraceView can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Scout are:

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

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

Track every machine involved in a transaction and identify bottlenecks in a single click.
Isolate interesting calls and drill down to the line of code and machine it ran on.
Tie together code and infrastructure metrics with database, service, and cache calls, all in the context of a single transaction.

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Scout, while over 2 developers mention "The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues" as the leading cause for choosing TraceView.

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Detailed Comparison

Scout	TraceView
Scout APM helps developers quickly pinpoint & resolve performance issues before the customer ever sees them. Spend less time debugging & more time building with a streamlined interface & tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code.	Expose everything, from the webserver to database, cache and API calls. The core technology is based on X-Trace, a distributed tracing framework that’s served as the inspiration for companies like Google and Twitter.
Monitors Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js & Elixir apps;Easy install;Detailed transaction traces;Alerting;Deploy Tracking	Track every machine involved in a transaction and identify bottlenecks in a single click.;Isolate interesting calls and drill down to the line of code and machine it ran on.;Tie together code and infrastructure metrics with database, service, and cache calls, all in the context of a single transaction.;Smart Tracing means you can run in production, with negligible overhead (< 1%).;Understand spikes in the graphs, even if the cause is only a single outlying request.;Visualize request patterns in one place to separate the noisy from the systematic.;Cross-correlate information between multiple sources. Want to find the controller and action that scans entire MongoDB collections? Done, in a single screen.;Zoom-in on trends based on performance - no guessing involved.;From mobile to desktops, understand your customer’s true web application experience from anywhere around the world.;Track server, network, and in-browser latency based on exactly what the user sees, as measured from directly inside your users’ browsers.;Tie end user experiences back to actual server side transactions.
Statistics
Stacks 84	Stacks 8
Followers 86	Followers 17
Votes 21	Votes 7
Pros & Cons
Pros 8 Easy setup 5 Plugins 3 Affordable 1 Heroku Integration 1 Custom Scopes	Pros 5 The heatmap helped me isolate DB related issues 2 Heatmap helped me find a Tomcat Memcached problem
Integrations
No integrations available	Heroku

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AppDynamics

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Stackify

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Dynatrace

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