#1 most frequent
United States of America
57.1%4 installations of 7
What is Scout Monitoring?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of Scout Dashboard
Top Performing Features
Application monitoring
Application monitoring involves tracking response times and resource usage for applications, including highly-distributed applications
Category average: 8.6
Database monitoring
Database monitoring means looking for database bottlenecks liable to slow response times
Category average: 8.2
Application performance management console
The management console is used to manage monitoring agents and et thresholds, etc.
Category average: 7.9
Areas for Improvement
Who Buys & Uses Scout Monitoring
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
28.6%2 installations of 7
#3 most frequent
Canada
14.3%1 installation of 7
Fantastic APM for Rails based apps
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Scout APM helps our engineering team to monitor our main Rails application which is a Monolith hosted on the Heroku platform. It has helped to monitor and debug most of the outages, degradation of response times, or memory bloats for the past 4 years with a great amount of accuracy. It has helped us to do this in our web and background processes.
Pros
- Rails instrumentation
- Segmentation by controllers and sometimes methods
- Detecting low performing endpoints
Cons
- 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
Return on Investment
- Speed to solve incidents
- Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments
- Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq)
Alternatives Considered
Datadog
Other Software Used
Datadog, Rapid7 InsightOps, Cloudflare
Scout is the way to go in today's market
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Scout is being used by our whole organization. We use these sections on a daily basis: IT risk assessments, cybersecurity, red flags, vendor management, BSA, ACH and compliance management. I have had three different FDIC regulators look at the reports and they are always satisfied. This is so much better than Excel spreadsheets that are hard to configure and read. You must order the trial and see for yourself.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- There are not many areas that I would change in Scout. If I were to change anything it would be just to add a description of when I would use a report, such as managers, board of directors, or regulators.
Return on Investment
- I like that everything is in one place. We used to use Excel spreadsheets and it was very hard to keep everything in one place or to find something specific. Now it is very easy finding what you're looking for with this all in one solution.
- This solution pays for itself with the time saved from not looking at spreadsheets.
- When the regulators come and they ask for a assessment I can get it for them in very short order.
Alternatives Considered
Excel
