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Scout Monitoring is application performance monitoring that streamlines troubleshooting by helping developers find and fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, a developer-centric UI, and tracing that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, Scout helps teams spend less time debugging and more time building great products. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve issues like memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and related performance problems using lightweight instrumentation with minimal overhead. Built for developers, by developers, Scout supports Ruby, PHP, Python, and Elixir applications and provides a unified view of application performance, errors, and logs with simple, transparent pricing. * * * Seller [Scout Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/sellers/scout-monitoring) Discussions [Scout Monitoring Community](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/discuss) Languages Supported English, Spanish Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Hayley Keith Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Scout Monitoring. ### The FREE plan $0.00 Per Month ### The Startup Plan $19.00 Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Sentry](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sentry") Sentry 4.5/5(224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sentry/reviews) [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 74 real user reviews. Implementation Time \<1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Scout Monitoring Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Claude ](https://www.g2.com/products/claude-2025-12-11/reviews) Show More ![Michael V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael V.") MV Michael V. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/26/2023 "Great Rails Integration" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? I love how they have closely integrated Rails into the whole tool. Features such as the slow query and N+1 query suggestions are great to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? They do not support JRuby. I've had to migrate a few apps away from them because of this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Application Performance Monitoring, they also have really good suggestions on how we can improve the speed of the app and also the problem points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Hayley Keith of Scout Monitoring [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/scout-monitoring-review-8363945/official_response/edit) Hi Michael, Thank you for the review! Our APM monitoring tool is built in Rails - so it’s the best on the market for Ruby apps…..we are glad you love the performance insights and suggestions we provide in our solution. [See how Scout Monitoring improved](https://scoutapm.com/users/sign_up) Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic TR Tim R. Engineering Lead Leisure, Travel & Tourism Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/24/2023 "Simple and effective monitoring for our Rails application" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout has helped us on many occasions by alerting us to performance probems before they become a major issue. When issues do come up, it helps us to pinpoint the exact problem so we can resolve it quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? The transaction limit means we need to sample requests to remain below the threshold. It would be nice to have higher transaction limits (perhaps with a lower retention time?) so we don't miss out on tracking important requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? The N+1 and slow query insights are particularly useful for identifying performance issues. It's also really helpful to see a breakdown on each trace to identify where time is spent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Hayley Keith of Scout Monitoring [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/scout-monitoring-review-8353170/official_response/edit) Hi Tim - we are happy to hear Scout helps you avoid any major performance issues and troubleshoot quickly! Our customer success team can reach out to craft a custom plan with one of our 15th-anniversary promotions so that you don’t need to sample down to get access to all the insights you need. We love working with our customers to create flexible options that enable them to monitor all important requests. [See how Scout Monitoring improved](https://scoutapm.com/info/pricing) Validated ReviewerSource: Organic VM Vince M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/29/2023 "Strong performance monitoring for PHP, Laravel and more" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Dev-centric performance monitoring for Laravel applications. Their service automatically collects insights about performance issues and alerts you & your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Would be nice if it provided MySQL index insights. Like missing, duplicate or bad indexes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Slow queries, N+1 issues, bottlenecks and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Mikael H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mikael H.") MH Mikael H. Freelancing Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/27/2022 "Maybe the best APM offer out there for Ruby on Rails" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? I love that I can have both APM and errors in the same application. One service to rule them all! Their UX is splendid and always a pleasure to work with and the level of detail (insight) is spot on! As for the errors, they also are following that same high quality UX where things are easy to reason about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? I honestly have no complaints, perhaps if I were able to make a wish, I'd wish for infrastructure monitoring. For now, however, it is more than enough to be able to trace everything in my app, see slow queries etc. System resource usage is the only thing thing that I don't have insight into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Since NewRelic have turned into an incomprehensible mess, I have been on the lookout for an APM that gives me insight into the health of my applications. Discovering later that they also support error/exception reports was such a pleasant bonus. Their UX is very pleasant to navigate and super easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism") AL Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Good for monitoring the Performance Metrics" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? SQL Logging, N+1 insights and memory bloats are good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Logging can be little better and tracing too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Our Slow Actions are getting monitored on Scout APM and we are taking appropriate actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/24/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Mixer G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mixer G.") MG Mixer G. Senior Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Great APM Solution for Rails Apps" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? - Easy to set up and use. - You can start analyzing your worst performance endpoints within minutes after installing it. - When it's correctly instrumented it really helps to narrow down the specific chunks of code causing bad performance. - Works great with Rails applications - Dashboard is really helpful in terms of showing just the things you need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? - Enabling background jobs analysis consumes a lot of plan's usage - Data stops being collected if the usage surpasses the limits of the plan after a few days (even after those days the average usage decreases) - If you are unaware your data is not being collected anymore your data is lost, difficulting debugging events in that time frame. - API is somewhat limited. Ex: To extract data and build custom reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: If you have a small to middle-sized Ruby on Rails application you definitely should check it out. It really has a good return on investment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? - Debugging slow endpoints and N+1 queries - Analyzing memory consumption - Exploring database usage in background jobs - Helping junior team members to visualize and fix performance issues - It has been our go-to tool for performance and optimization needs for a couple of years from now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/14/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Nikitha S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nikitha S.") NS Nikitha S. Cloud Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/31/2022 "Call aggregation feature offered by Scout APM is useful for our database calls recording & backtrace" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout APM is a fully automated platform to obtain a brief picture of our application performances in our Prod & Non-Prod environments thanks to its transactions visibility, reporting and user interface. It carries on various in-built tools & features that simply require one-click gestures to obtain insights. It is also best when it comes to analyzing certain bottlenecks of our applications once we get to know that a customer is facing an issue. We effectively identify those incidents and perform RCA for resolving the difficulties faced by our customers through Scout APM's performance insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Since plenty of features are provided by Scout APM, an intermediate experience level with hands-on is required for working effectively on its platform. It may seem overwhelming to start with its features but as we progress, we got adapted to it and we figured best practices offered by Scout APM o find the problem areas in our application. Further improvements can be made to its Dashboard so that it can accustom new users & offer convenience to them while handling evaluations using Scout APM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We implement Scout Agents to collect information about our application metrics such as transaction traces, sanitized SQL query statements, CPU & memory usage and error counts. These Agents check if the overall execution time is at least 5 ms. If it's less than the threshold, then the current span is effectively removed and time is allocated to the corresponding parent span. We also store our database calls using Scout Agents along with external HTTP requests & its libraries. They are processed through Scout APM's call aggregation feature which gives detailed metrics & backtraces that are essential for performing Root Cause Analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite CB Chris B. Software engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Great for quickly identifying issues in performance" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Easy to digest dashboards and in depth metrics for Ruby/Rails applications (N+1, memory bloat, etc). Their database query performance tracker is great to relate issues back to traces. Easy to figure out what endpoints / change in endpoint behavior can cause issues or started causing issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? We've had some issues getting individual of our most used endpoints making the tool a little less useful for that type of analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Identify performance issues with our product, release by release, or when incidents happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/26/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management") UN Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Great for monitoring performance and deploys" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? I like being able to see the graph of performance over time and being able to compare different time periods. This allows me to monitor the performance of a certain page/request before and after deploying changed. I also really like the N+1 queries callouts to help me notice and fix performance bottlenecks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Sometimes the traces aren't the most detailed and don't tell me the SQL or line causing an issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Scout APM to help monitor throughput and diagnose performance bottlenecks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/26/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2021 "How I benefit from ScoutAPM on legacy code" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Break down on tracing and resource usage. Especially when working on legacy architecture. Fixing and pointing to leakage is a different beast on itself. Implementing scout APM help me with that. Ease of implementing and wide support mean it is easy to setup and modify. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? No clear legend on graph color when comparing improvement. Once I spent quite a time figure out if the fix improve things or make things worse. Separate graph for different concern will also help a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: If you need quick to setup monitoring system on old architecture. scout APM provide it quickly to try and custom as you want. It help give quick view if the service is the correct one for your need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? n+1 query problem on old stacks that it is hard to determine the query builder. Slow API detection and checking if the fix made any progress. Detecting at which endpoint wasting the most resource, and if it really need that much resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/27/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Scout Monitoring? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Scout Monitoring ](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/discussions/new) ![Marc R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marc R.") MR Marc Reynolds • Last activity almost 3 years ago Is there any way to trigger alerts for background jobs? 2 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12225-is-there-any-way-to-trigger-alerts-for-background-jobs) ![Mixer G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mixer G.") MG Mixer Gutiérrez • Last activity almost 3 years ago How it compares with other tools like Datadog or New Relic? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36802-how-it-compares-with-other-tools-like-datadog-or-new-relic) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/discuss) ## Pricing Options Pricing provided by Scout Monitoring. ### The FREE plan $0.00 Per Month ### The Startup Plan $19.00 Per Month ### The Small Plan $39.00 Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/pricing) Scout Monitoring Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_c0a65dc26207a41402ce86aadae4cc6a/sentry.png "Product Avatar Image") Sentry 4.5/5(224) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/scout-monitoring-vs-sentry) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_393746d0cdc8904473bde59b5858158e/datadog.png "Product Avatar Image") Datadog 4.4/5(726) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/datadog-vs-scout-monitoring) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_99d915af2d051bc088cda6889515bb0c/appsignal.png "Product Avatar Image") AppSignal 4.6/5(38) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/appsignal-vs-scout-monitoring) ##### ##### Scout Monitoring Features Monitoring Performance Baselines Performance Analysis Transaction Monitoring Response Dashboards and Visualization Root Cause Analysis (RCA) [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Bug Tracking](https://www.g2.com/categories/bug-tracking)[Application Performance Monitoring (APM)](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm)[Observability Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/observability-software) [Bug Tracking](https://www.g2.com/categories/bug-tracking)[Application Performance Monitoring (APM)](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm)[Observability Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/observability-software)[IT Alerting](https://www.g2.com/categories/it-alerting)[Log Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/log-monitoring)[Log Analysis](https://www.g2.com/categories/log-analysis) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);) ##### Explore More [Is Autodesk Forma worth it for jobsite management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-autodesk-forma-worth-it-for-jobsite-management)[What is the top-rated web content management system for large organizations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-top-rated-web-content-management-system-for-large-organizations)[Top tools for automating build and test processes](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-tools-for-automating-build-and-test-processes) [What PSA software works best for small to mid-size IT services companies that need something solid but not enterprise-priced?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-psa-software-works-best-for-small-to-mid-size-it-services-companies-that-need-something-solid-but-not-enterprise-priced)[What are the highest rated UKG Marketplace solutions for extending HR system functionality for enterprise teams with demanding workforce management needs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-highest-rated-ukg-marketplace-solutions-for-extending-hr-system-functionality-for-enterprise-teams-with-demanding-workforce-management-needs)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)