You Are Building With AI. Who Is Watching What It Ships?
AI makes building faster. It also makes production problems faster. If you ship without monitoring, you are flying blind at 10x speed.
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Best APM for Small Development Teams in 2026
A practical comparison of APM tools for small development teams without dedicated DevOps or SRE. Covers Scout, Sentry, Honeybadger, AppSignal, New Relic, and Datadog.
Best Sentry Alternatives in 2026: A Developer's Guide
Looking for a Sentry alternative? A practical comparison of tools that offer more integrated APM, simpler pricing, or better fit for specific languages and team sizes.
Switching from Datadog to Scout: A Practical Guide
How to switch from Datadog to Scout, what to expect, and what BackerKit learned when their 5-person team made the move.
Best Elixir APM Tools in 2026: A Developer's Guide
A practical look at APM tools for Elixir and Phoenix applications as of May 2026.
April Newsletter
Agent releases across Ruby, Python, Elixir, CLI, and MCP. BackerKit on switching from Datadog. Scout on AWS Marketplace. Blue Ridge Ruby and PHPverse. And something in the works we think you will like.
Ecto N+1 Queries: Detection and Prevention in Elixir
How to find, fix, and prevent N+1 queries in Elixir applications using Ecto. Covers Repo.preload, inline preloads, Oban jobs, Phoenix LiveView patterns, and automatic detection with Scout.
N+1 Queries in Rails: A Guide to Detection and Prevention
How to find, fix, and prevent N+1 queries in Rails applications. Covers ActiveRecord includes, preload, eager_load, the Bullet gem, Sidekiq jobs, and automatic detection with Scout.
What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?
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 Went from Datadog to Scout: A Weekly Sync Actually Works Now
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.
The 9 Application Performance Metrics You Need to Measure and Why
Understanding what your application performance metrics mean both independently and together is key in effectively using your APM system.
How We Do Support at Scout
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.