Scout Blog
An honest comparison of the best APM and monitoring tools for small teams (2-20 engineers) without dedicated DevOps or SRE. Covers Scout Monitoring, AppSignal, Honeybadger, Sentry, New Relic, and Datadog.
Comparing the best error monitoring tools for Node.js in 2026. Covers Express and NestJS error handling with honest reviews of Scout Monitoring, Sentry, Bugsnag, Rollbar, and Datadog.
A Rails-specific comparison of the best error monitoring tools in 2026. Covers Scout Monitoring, Sentry, Honeybadger, AppSignal, New Relic, and Skylight with honest tradeoffs for each.
An honest comparison of the best APM tools for Node.js in 2026. Covers Scout Monitoring, Datadog, New Relic, AppSignal, Dynatrace, and PM2 Plus for Express and NestJS teams.
A practical guide to monitoring NestJS applications in production. Covers what to instrument, what to ignore, and how to find the problems that only show up under real traffic.
How N+1 queries happen in Prisma, why they are hard to catch in development, and how Scout automatically detects them in production Node.js applications.
Anomaly detection in beta, bundled pricing, DigitalOcean and AWS Marketplace, MCP server updates, and Node.js agent coming soon. A lot shipped in May.
AcuBliss is a booking and scheduling platform built with a lean engineering team. This is how they caught a production slowdown before their users did, and how Scout changed the way they debug.
AI makes building faster. It also makes production problems faster. If you ship without monitoring, you are flying blind at 10x speed.
A practical comparison of APM tools for small development teams without dedicated DevOps or SRE. Covers Scout, Sentry, Honeybadger, AppSignal, New Relic, and Datadog.
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.
How to switch from Datadog to Scout, what to expect, and what BackerKit learned when their 5-person team made the move.