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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 ![Tim H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tim H.") TH Tim H. Product Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/27/2021 "A strong SAAS monitoring tool at a good price" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout's UI is intuitive, and the app provides the visibility we need into our Rails app's performance over time. Scout makes good use of modern web visualization tools to present data in ways that are easy to understand and interpret. A particularly valuable feature is the ability to compare performance from two different time periods of varying length. The alerts function lets us set up fine-grained notifications when certain metrics aren't in the ranges we like. This is really helpful. Scout's pricing is affordable for a small SAAS business like mine — the cost-benefit versus other providers of similar services is a slam-dunk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? It would be great if Scout offered a longer look-back period than 7 days. It can sometimes be a little slow to process query requests, but given the scope of data analyzed that's pretty understandable. The app does seem to hold more data than simply "the past seven days", but you can only see that much data at once. There are of course tools that provide finer-grained or larger-scale performance data analysis, but they are priced exponentially higher than Scout, and often feature per-server based pricing rather than Scout's simple and predictable request-volume-based pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We're able to identify endpoints with performance issues easily, and address them, speeding up the app. With Appdex, Scout also provides a simple overall metric for app performance that provides peace of mind (or the opposite when necessary). Scout's alerts have given us a heads up when usage was heading in a direction that needed watching but before AWS's auto-scaling kicks in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![SangHoon L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SangHoon L.") SL SangHoon L. software engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "ScoutAPM worth trying" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? I used Scout APM to diagnose slow endpoints. It shows queries and how long each of them took. which helps finding bottlenecks. It is very UI friendly and shows the exact lines of code for where things took place. It also shows response time and throughput graph for each endpoint to easily spot if there is anything that is out of ordinary. Also, It shows metrics across all the transaction for each endpoint which is very helpful (Shows average total time for each transactions and the percentage of the time consumed for that endpoint). In addition to identifying or diagnose slow endpoints. It is very useful tool to diagnose the presence of N + 1 queries. It has n + 1 insight which analyzes the application for N + 1 queries consuming over 150 ms. This also brings you to exact line of code where it is happening (with backtraces) and also shows the sql query for the backtrace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? It would be nice to have more customizable time for filtering. In comparison to new relics where you can set start and end time, scout only let you to select 7 days max. This is not too bad. We usually are not interested in too much data anyways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: It is definitely worth giving it a try. It helped us a lot identifying and resolving performance issues. Pricing is pretty good for mid size companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? - slow endpoints - N+1 queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller CE Chris E. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/26/2021 "Scout is a great performance monitoring service for Rails apps." 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? I find the n+1 insights, slow query insights, and Rails-specific breakdowns of response times (e.g., time spent by ActiveRecord vs. views, etc.) to be particularly useful when I'm trying to diagnose performance bottlenecks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? I find myself still using additional services to monitor performance of non-Rails-specific things, such as New Relic to monitor the performance of my AWS infrastructure and Sentry to monitor exceptions. (But then again, if Scout were to expand its scope into monitoring more layers too quickly, it might approach the "jack of all trades, master of none" sort of territory, so I don't necessarily think they should rush to do all the things that New Relic does.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? My website performs complex calculations in its Rails back-end, which results in various performance bottlenecks. My top objective when using Scout is to identify and then resolve such performance bottlenecks (which can mean making improvements to Rails methods, Redis caches, an associated PostgreSQL database, etc.), and my secondary objective (which will eventually become my primary objective, once most bottlenecks have been resolved) is to quickly become aware (e.g., via alerts) of performance slow-downs that may result from time to time due to my deploying new releases of my code base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller RR Rajesh R. Product Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Best Monitoring tool I have used so far" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Able to see how the system performs and able to link multiple 3rd party apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? Would be nice from a UX perspective if more details can be added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: I certainly recommend Scout as I use i almost every day for my day to day activities in terms of monitoring and working with our client whenever we expect heavy load in the system and it has helped immensely. This is an awesome tool and I have already recommended this to a couple of our other clients and help them understand how this can be beneficial. What I like in the system is that I can see all the errors and work with our team in fixing them. Sometimes it makes it hard to see where exactly the problem. Though the current view represents most of the data, it might be helpful if the UX can be enhanced a little bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We run multiple promotions with over 10000 users hitting the site and after I started using Scout, I am able to actively monitor and this has helped immensely in making sure the site doesn't go down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Danny I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Danny I.") DI Danny I. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/26/2021 "Scout keeps a pulse on performance and points you in the right direction for improving it" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Scout allows you to see data however you need it. Whether you define endpoints as slow based on their total time consumed across the app or by response time, Scout easily lets you sort and filter accordingly. Digging into one endpoint, you can then see the details of a specific trace to see what kind of n+1 queries you have or what aspects of the request were slowest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? This might be something that I just haven't dug into setting up, but it'd be nice if additional context about a request (like number of users in a firm) could help provide insight into what is "normal" or "expected" to provide insight into outliers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? I am currently addressing our slowest endpoints by definition of "% Time Consumed". Scout has allowed me to easily see a ranked list where the slowest endpoint by this definition isn't necessarily the overall slowest response time, but by also taking throughput into consideration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Kamil B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kamil B.") KB Kamil B. Lead Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/1/2021 "Better NewRelic" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Excellent integration with GithubGets expensive with higher throughput Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? May get expensive with higher throughput. Could be more helpful with reducing these costs with some sort of sampling tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: I already recommended Scout to a few other teams at my organisation. It has everything you'd expect from the application monitoring: performance metrics, release tracking, histograms with response time distribution, full visibility into sample traces with an excellent integration with Github. You can literally see a timeline showing the execution of your code. It equipped me with everything I need to be effective as a technical leader and proactively tackle any application performance issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Scout for Ruby on Rails platform monitoring. It's an invaluable tool used by the team when hunting down slow APIs, background jobs or even checking what caused an overall slow-down on the database server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Thomas Q.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thomas Q.") TQ Thomas Q. CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/25/2021 "A complete APM to spot any issues in your app" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Very handy dashboard, helps you spot anomalies quickly like a bigger response time or crazy N+1 queries. Setup is really quick and easy, it integrates nicely with PHP/Laravel. The dashboard are intuitive, the customer success team will organise a chat to take you through everything and answer your questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? The memory tracking isn't available in our current setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: If you have no visibility over how your app is performing you should really consider setting up ScoutAPM to see what's really going on and start decreasing your response time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We had noticed a few slow pages on our website without being sure of what was causing it, thanks to ScoutAPM we realised we had a lot of N+1 and some controller code was actually heavy. It made us being aware of anomalies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Diogo B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Diogo B.") DB Diogo B. Desenvolvedor web sênior Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Scout APM is great to auto collect performance metrics without any instrumentation" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? The simplicity to use in Rails applications. We didn't make any changes to our codebase and the tool was capable of get detailed metrics and show in a clear way. In a microsservice architecture like ours, helps a lot with requests info and background jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? I had a specific case where half of the time spent on the request was not categorized and show as AutoInstrument. This don't happens often but it's hard to debug without any kind of information of where to look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We have some applications that are very sensible to performance and we need to constantly check for any issue. It helped us a lot to be more direct on what to do and where to focus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/28/2021 "It has been helpful for us" 5/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? What is there to say about ScoutAPM, it is a very friendly and always replies to queries promptly, the UI of the product is quite intuitive and in addition to that we were offered a demo in order to better understand how to best squeeze the most out of it. Definitely in the short amount of time that we've used it, it has already proven it's usefulness by giving us the opportunity to see part of the platform which were not performing up to the standard we expected, making it easier for us to make them better. I would definitely recommend ScoutAPM, as I did with my boss, to everyone who is willing to have a better understanding of what is happening under the hood even out of office hours. Hope this helps, have a nice day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? We haven't been users for long, and so far we haven't found anything we don't like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? We mostly wanted to be able to profile peaks happening outside business hours related to PHP, and we've been able to continuosly monitor the performances and solve them and to find consistent bottlenecks which needed to be addressed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![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.) 1/27/2021 "Helpful system review tool, makes improving performance much easier" 4/5 What do you like best about Scout Monitoring? Being able to view the details of all the traces of a single endpoint and breaking down each trace (view, SQL, Redis, etc.) is very helpful. The slowest parts of your system can be found very quickly and effortlessly with Scout APM, which is essential to be able to do for a growing software business. Additionally, I like that the dashboard is filled with a helpful interactive graph over a selectable time range. This makes finding new bottlenecks even faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring? The traces page should have far more options for filtering, and you should be able to search for traces with the slowest AVERAGE time, not just the slowest traces overall. Additionally, it would be nice if there were easy ways to get additional details about slow areas of code -- for example, rather than knowing a "view" takes 50% of execution time, break down the parts of the view which take long. In other words, we would like more integration with our actual code in order to get more detailed information from the Scout dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Scout Monitoring: Scout APM is definitely worth using, and it can be helpful long-term. You can continue to receive updates on how well your app is performing by email, so if something goes wrong (which it always does), you can know immediately and use Scout to find the issue fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Scout Monitoring solving and how is that benefiting you? As our business scales, Scout APM is helping us to refactor our backend system to meet the performance needs of our customers. Parts of our application that are running slow can be quickly identified and fixed so that user experience remains great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## 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) ![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) ![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) [ 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);)