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    Scout Monitoring

    Score10 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Scout APM is offered to enable software developers to spend their time building products customers love by minimizing the effort required to identify and resolve performance issues. As a provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, Scout states that their developer-centric approach pinpoints issues such as memory bloat, N+1 queries and other abnormalities, enabling customers to quickly resolve performance issues.

    $19

    per month 600k monthly transactions included

    Pricing
    Scout Monitoring
    Editions & Modules
    The Startup Plan
    $19
    per month 600k monthly transactions included
    The Small Plan
    $39
    per month 1.2m monthly transactions included
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Scout Monitoring
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Scout Monitoring
    Considered Both Products
    Scout Monitoring
    Chose Scout Monitoring
    We have preferred Scout APM over Datadog due to:
    - Easy to configure and install on Heroku Platform (Datadog's agent can give some trouble when installing it on Heroku's Dynos)
    - Easy to monitor normal behavior and be actionable on endpoints who are out of normal
    Incentivized
    Chose Scout Monitoring
    I've already explained why this product beats Excel hands down in time and money. I also love the way it sends you an email when you forget any due diligence or testing that needs to be done.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Scout Monitoring
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Scout Monitoring
    Feature
    Scout Monitoring
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Application monitoring10.01 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.01 Ratings
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    Scout Monitoring
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    User Ratings
    Scout Monitoring
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Scout Monitoring
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Scout Monitoring
    To me, it's the best APM out there for a Rails application. It is really easy to set up, configure and start debugging any kind of bad-performing endpoint. We have solved issues going from High Response Time to Memory Leaks/Bloats. All of this can be achieved even if you are hosting your app in a PaaS like Heroku. (Where sometimes is difficult to install an agent like in other vendors).
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Scout Monitoring
    • I specifically use the risk assessment module and do risk assessments on any new product we introduce into our network or any company that we are thinking about taking on as a client.
    • I also use the vendor management module for any due diligence that comes up with a new company or a company that we may use once and then not use again.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Scout Monitoring
    • Errors (is a new functionality but I didn't get well how it can replace rollbar for example).
    • Usage measuring: In some cases is easy to get "disabled" due to a peak of bad requests.
    • Editing app's names
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Scout Monitoring
    I've already explained why this product beats Excel hands down in time and money. I also love the way it sends you an email when you forget any due diligence or testing that needs to be done.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Scout Monitoring
    • Speed to solve incidents
    • Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments
    • Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq)
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Scout Monitoring Screenshots

    Screenshot of Scout DashboardScreenshot of Backtrace viewScreenshot of Database Add-onScreenshot of N+1 InsightsScreenshot of Memory InsightsScreenshot of Slow Query Insights