Scout Monitoring
Errors, logs, and traces for dev teams
Scout Monitoring is an application performance monitoring tool that combines error monitoring, log management, and tracing for Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js applications. It surfaces code-level bottlenecks, slow database queries, and unusual performance behavior so teams can locate and fix issues in their source code.
Core capabilities include app traces with summary and timeline views, a trace explorer with custom filters, automatic N+1 query detection, app metrics, log management, error monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting. Integrations cover Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, GitHub deploy tracking, and SAML SSO providers including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Google Workspace. An MCP server, CLI, and API let AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor query production errors and traces.
Scout is built for engineering teams running Rails, Django, Express, NestJS, Laravel, Symfony, Phoenix, and similar frameworks. Pricing is usage-based with a free plan covering a monthly transaction, error, and log allowance, a 14-day trial of unlimited performance data, a Production Ready edition, and a custom Enterprise edition with SSO and audit options. Additional transaction, error, log, and anomaly capacity can be added as needed, and all plans include unlimited users and apps.
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