Scout Blog
Application performance monitoring gives engineering teams visibility into how their software behaves in production. Here is what APM is, what it measures, and how modern teams use it to go from alert to fix.
BackerKit's lean engineering team manages $3.7B in crowdfunding pledges with five developers. Here is how switching from Datadog to Scout changed their weekly performance routine and how they are using Scout MCP with GitHub Copilot.
Understanding what your application performance metrics mean both independently and together is key in effectively using your APM system.
Scout treats support as a differentiator. Real humans answer your questions, AI handles the research behind the scenes, and the same MCP servers and CLI tools we use internally are available to every customer.
A workflow that connects Scout's MCP server to an AI assistant to automatically triage production errors overnight and open draft PRs with proposed fixes — so your team starts the day reviewing solutions, not stack traces.
Elixir agent 2.0 adds error monitoring and log management, the Scout CLI is now available via Homebrew, and new public API endpoints and MCP server updates ship this month.
We've shipped API updates, two MCP server options, and a new CLI — all designed to get Scout's performance data to the AI tools you already use.
Scout APM's Elixir agent now captures Ecto query commands, row counts, and external HTTP calls via Finch, Req, and Tesla, giving you full visibility into where time goes in your Phoenix app.
Rails ships a coordinated security patch fixing 9 CVEs across three branches, Starlette reaches 1.0 after eight years, and Laravel 13.1 lands post-Laracon EU fixes.
Scout APM's Elixir agent now includes built-in error monitoring—automatically capture Phoenix and LiveView exceptions via telemetry, or report errors manually with full context.
Scout's Elixir agent now auto-instruments LiveView mounts, handle_event, and handle_params via telemetry — no code changes to your LiveView modules.
redis-py ships native OpenTelemetry metrics for async clients, Laravel fixes queue deadlocks, and a security disclosure reveals plaintext password leaks in redis-py.