--- title: Scout Monitoring Reviews meta\_title: 'Scout Monitoring Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 74 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Scout Monitoring works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 74 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # Scout Monitoring Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Scout Monitoring but has limited features. Are you part of the Scout Monitoring team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/scout-monitoring/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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 ![Graham Q.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Graham Q.") GQ Graham Q. Instructor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/29/2026 "Real User Here: They give us unmatched SQL Visibility That Pinpoints Slow Queries Fast" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? The SQL-level visibility is unmatched. When something goes wrong, Scout connects surface-level symptoms directly to the exact query causing the problem — N+1 detection, slow queries, the works. Nothing else in our stack does this. These saved us multiple times... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? The only thing we'd change is having more excuses to talk to their team. Great product, great people. Seriously, their people are amazing. They run a tight ship. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Without Scout, database-layer issues are invisible until users feel them. Scout gives us the visibility to catch and fix performance problems before they become incidents — especially critical for our booking and scheduling system where downtime or slowness has real consequences for medical practices. We can't afford this and will never be replacing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![James C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "James C.") JC James C. Principal Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/13/2026 "Powerful Rails Insights, But the UI Needs a Modern Refresh" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout is built for Ruby and Rails rather than retrofitted onto it, and that focus shows up everywhere. Install is three lines in the Gemfile, a config file, and a deploy. You're looking at real data in about five minutes. N+1 detection and slow-query analysis are the killer features for any Rails app. Scout points you straight at the offending controller action and ActiveRecord call pattern, so you can land a fix in one pass. App traces give per-request code-level visibility that's been useful for chasing down regressions after deploys. Pricing is realistic for small and mid-sized teams in a way the Datadog and New Relic tier just isn't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? The UI is the main thing keeping this from a 5. It feels at least one generation behind where modern observability tooling has landed. Navigation is still mostly link-and-page-load rather than the fast, filterable, drill-down interactions you get from newer tools. Time-range manipulation, faceted filtering, and dashboard composition could all be much more interactive. None of this affects the quality of the underlying data Scout collects, but a UI/UX refresh would be the biggest single improvement they could ship. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Pinpointing N+1s and slow ActiveRecord queries before they turn into production incidents, and shortening the path from "something looks off" to "here's the line of code." Having traces, errors, and logs correlated in one place cuts context-switching during incidents. For a Rails-heavy stack, it's deeply integrated, and so it gives a better signal-to-noise ratio than the general-purpose APM vendors, with a fraction of the configuration overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Tyler S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tyler S.") TS Tyler S. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/21/2026 "APM Simplified" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? It’s very easy to set up and has a simple interface. With their CLI and MCP, it’s also really easy to pull the data out and analyze it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? It can be a little pricey if you’re doing a lot of transactions, although other solutions can be as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? It gives us clear performance insights into our SQL queries and Sidekiq jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User") G Verified User Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/21/2026 "Excellent Monitoring with Unmatched Support" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? I use Scout Monitoring to monitor my web application on Ruby on Rails, and the MCP server capability is really good. I really enjoy the developer support and the developer experience; they are really attuned to my needs. The tech team is very responsive and bright. I find their customer service great, and it’s really easy to see everything at a glance. I also value the MCP servers and the alerts. The initial setup was very easy; it only took ten minutes, and I appreciate the better pricing and better support compared to other options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? nothing is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Scout Monitoring solves everything for monitoring my application on Ruby on Rails. The customer service is great, and it's really easy to see at a glance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/13/2026 "Easy Integration, Powerful App Insights, and Responsive Support" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Integration is extremely easy, and the insight into our applications is empowering. We are able to easily identify performance bottlenecks with the easy to navigate platform. Compared to the other players in this space, ScoutAPM is quite affordable. Whenever I have needed help, they were always quick to follow up! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? There is nothing I dislike about Scout monitoring! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Application performance monitoring for our Python/Django based web applications. Helping us scale to support our growing usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Yoran B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yoran B.") YB Yoran B. Co-founder & CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/3/2023 "Best performance monitoring tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout APM is the performance monitoring tool that we find most actionable. It's easy to drown in the data, rendering the tool useless. But Scout does a really good job of showing the right data that highlight the most pressing performance problems, so that you can use precious development time most effectively to fix them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Their error monitoring service is not (yet) feature-comparable with other specialised tools like Sentry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Performance becomes an issue for any web application at some point. Scout APM: - tracks the performance of our endpoints, both average as well as distribution to identify problematic sets of query parameters - highlights the most problematic ones in terms of frequency called and response time - identifies N+1 queries to the database - highlights requests that are causing high memory usage 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-8396718/official_response/edit) Hi Yoran - Thank you for your 5-star review! We are so happy you love Scout APM and its ease of use. We are also pleased to inform you that we are currently working on some solutions that will solve any feature gaps. We will be sure to notify you as we push out new features and enhancements. [See how Scout Monitoring improved](https://scoutapp.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8367e77283916f5a3915301c1&id=082b3bdcee) Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Matjaž M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Matjaž M.") MM Matjaž M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/23/2023 "Save time on optimization and identifying the slow code" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? It gives you all the tools you need. You can analyze application performance, background jobs, database performance. you get traces of real users using your apps or APIs, ... What's not to like? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? The only thing that could be improved is pricing. In my opinion, it's not up to par with some tools the bigger cloud providers have which do more or less the same thing. But, it's still worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Identifying slow parts of our API and background jobs. Identifying N+1 queries. Identifying slow database queries. Compare real traces from users so you get actual insights into real data not just aggregates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic AK Artem K. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/24/2023 "Favourite Ruby On Rails APM for many years" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Very easy to get it up and running. Insights about N+1, slow queries, memory bloat Very "digestible" for developers, low educational curve Fair pricing compared to competitors No additional price-per-user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Only Ruby on Rails support. When we migrated from NewRelic to Scout APM, we had only one huge Ruby on Rails monolith. Currently we're migrating to a microservice infrastructure that includes different languages, technologies and Scout is not covering them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy-to: - connect - use - analyze application insights not only for administrators but also for all tiers of our Ruby On Rails developers. As it is simple and accessible, we don't have to have a specific role for monitoring it. Every developer does that 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-8352315/official_response/edit) Hi Artem - Thanks for the positive review of Scout! Earlier this year we launched our new TelemetryHub solution - our microservices monitoring tool that supports all main languages, frameworks, and libraries for any major cloud platform. We offer a free tier on it as as well - so go check it out at Telemetryhub.com [See how Scout Monitoring improved](https://telemetryhub.com/) Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Bryan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bryan M.") BM Bryan M. Product Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/24/2023 "Excellent performance monitoring, easy to use, and reasonably priced" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout is easy for our team to use, provides clear insights, and has a reasonable price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? I would have said that the design was a bit dated, but they've recently updated some of the UI so there really isn't anything I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? Scout APM helps us determine what areas of our application might be causing performance issues. It does this for web, worker, and database so that we can ensure everything is fine tuned. We are able to deploy with greater confidence because we can see if updates impact performance and response times, and we are able to get previews of the exact lines of code which might be causing a delay. 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-8352287/official_response/edit) Hi Bryan - We are glad you loved the new UI updates we made to Scout. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from our other users as well. Thanks for loving Scout APM! [See how Scout Monitoring improved](https://scoutapm.com/) Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic JL Jason L. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/24/2023 "Application Monitoring that Works" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout APM works very well and has done so for years and years now. When something changes in production I always check the ScoutAPM dashboard to see if there has been a change in Performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Documentation and Pricing could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? ScountAPM helps us become aware of any problems before our end users notice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 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 [How do the top ecommerce platforms handle inventory syncing across your website, app and Amazon without things going out of stock mid-campaign?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-the-top-ecommerce-platforms-handle-inventory-syncing-across-your-website-app-and-amazon-without-things-going-out-of-stock-mid-campaign)[Discrete vs Continuous Data](https://www.g2.com/articles/discrete-vs-continuous-data)[Reliable ETL platforms](https://www.g2.com/discussions/looking-for-reliable-etl-platforms-any-experience-with-these-options) [Which Acumatica consulting services have proven track records implementing construction industry editions and job costing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-acumatica-consulting-services-have-proven-track-records-implementing-construction-industry-editions-and-job-costing)[Which supplier risk management app is best for handling third-party risks](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-supplier-risk-management-app-is-best-for-handling-third-party-risks)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/scout-monitoring/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)