Scout APM
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Strong performance monitoring for PHP, Laravel and more
What do you like best about the product?
Dev-centric performance monitoring for Laravel applications. Their service automatically collects insights about performance issues and alerts you & your team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would be nice if it provided MySQL index insights. Like missing, duplicate or bad indexes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Slow queries, N+1 issues, bottlenecks and more.
Application Monitoring that Works
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation and Pricing could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ScountAPM helps us become aware of any problems before our end users notice.
Save time on optimization and identifying the slow code
What do you like best about the product?
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?
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Best performance monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their error monitoring service is not (yet) feature-comparable with other specialised tools like Sentry.
What problems is the product 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
- 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
Great Rails Integration
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
They do not support JRuby. I've had to migrate a few apps away from them because of this.
What problems is the product 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.
Simple and effective monitoring for our Rails application
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Favourite Ruby On Rails APM for many years
What do you like best about the product?
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
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
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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
- 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
Excellent performance monitoring, easy to use, and reasonably priced
What do you like best about the product?
Scout is easy for our team to use, provides clear insights, and has a reasonable price.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
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.
Maybe the best APM offer out there for Ruby on Rails
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Call aggregation feature offered by Scout APM is useful for our database calls recording & backtrace
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product 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.
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.
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