Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Verified User in Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simple and fast solution to monitor rails apps"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

Scout is extremely easy to setup in multiple environments. You can get insights nearly instantly that are actionable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

No GPC protocol for Python. This did not allow us to roll out to several other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Graphic Design
AG
Verified User in Graphic Design
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The best tool to monitor you application"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

The easy of the monitors and the detail on the graphs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

The time that it needs to refresh the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Verified User in Financial Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy way to identify performance issues in your app"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

Fast identification of performance issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

Lacks a price plan for very small companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DN
Duc N.
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A very powerful tool giving insights about the apps"
4/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

Queries insights which give a very detailed analysis of slow operations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

Still has a small number of supported languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources
UH
Verified User in Human Resources
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Scout APM Review"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

The ability at a glance to get all the info needed on the dashboard. Also having memory characteristics per request/transaction is something unique. I don't believe New Relic has this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

The pricing turned us away when we started getting an increase in the number of our background jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wesklei M.
WM
Wesklei M.
Software Engineer - Team Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great support and improvements suggestions that make our lives easier"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

The support team is awesome, always available to help. Not only the team helps a lot, but the tool is amazing, the suggestions to fix n+1 and slow queries save us a lot of time while tuning our app. We can easily spot bottlenecks and view backtraces indicating where to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

Not able to filter endpoints by most requested paths. That would be useful to see the most usage and slowness, which is where we focus our effort. That is not a big issue, since we know where the high traffic is, but it's a nice to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design
UD
Verified User in Design
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Scout helps us target the most important performance issues"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

Scout's performance overview graph helps us see where our app is spending too much time, and then we are able to dig into specific requests to gain insights for how to resolve those issues. Scout helps us assess the hypotheses we have about our app's performance and make a plan to move forward! Scout's blog also provides useful content for how to effectively engage with this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

I wish Scout allowed you to view an overview that spanned more than just 7 days. It would be interesting to see data for a longer period of time, such as 1 month or even 60 days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward A.
EA
Edward A.
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Makes problems easy to identify and troubleshoot"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

Scout automatically tracks web requests, but any sort of background transaction too without having to manually instrument or think to add tracking.

When setting up a new message consumer, it was easy to identify what was taking the longest in both the common and edge cases. Profiled sample tracebacks made it straightforward to look into what specifically was making the consumer slow sometimes

Their interface is intuitive and easy to figure out, more so than NewRelic, which I have also used.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

Since my app's performance has a normal amount of variation, I wish that the weekly digest would consider how much variation is normal and let me know when it falls outside of that range. I.e. inform me of atypical variations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wasif H.
WH
Wasif H.
Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails/Full Stack
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"must-have tool for startup to enterprise app performance monitoring - Ruby/Python/Elixir"
5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

- Memory allocation and response time trace breakdown

- N+1 and memory bloat insights

- Weekly email summarizing the overall performance boost in comparison with the previous week as well as performance comparison for endpoints with high contrast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

didn't find any issues so far in more than a year except the pricing jump between FREE and the 1st paid subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saul M.
SM
Saul M.
Director Of Engineering
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great product with world class support, especially if using ruby/rails"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Scout Monitoring?

I love Scout's support; being able to communicate with their team just like I would do with my own.

They have really good documentation, I also like the Roadmap visibility and having the ability to cast a vote on new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scout Monitoring?

Improving the data retention period to more than 7 days would be a great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.