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This Week in the Scout Ecosystem: March 10, 2026
redis-py ships native OpenTelemetry metrics for async clients, Laravel fixes queue deadlocks, and a security disclosure reveals plaintext password leaks in redis-py.
Community Roundup: Feb 27, 2026
Django maintenance fixes, redis-py async OpenTelemetry support, and a Sidekiq Redis connection mystery — here's what moved this week.
February Newsletter
A quick look at what we've been up to for the past few months, including support for Ruby 4, improved Python support for errors, and strengthened reliability enhancements product-wide.
Already Love Scout APM? We Have Integrated Error Monitoring!
Error monitoring is now fully integrated with APM, with errors, traces, and logs in one interface. When an error spikes, you can immediately see if it correlates with a performance regression, drill into the trace, and find the problematic code without switching tools or piecing together data from multiple sources. Scout treats errors like first-class citizens, not an afterthought. This means that the integration depth and actionability is different than other tools: in Scout, errors and traces live in the same view by design, not as bolt-on features.
IETF Decreased Mean Response Time by 90% with Scout APM!
With the assistance of Scout APM, IETF was able to identify architectural issues that had been a growing pain point for years. Read more about IETF's experience working with Scout APM.
Scout APM Changelog - October 2023
Scout APM Changelog for October 2023
Scout APM Changelog - September 2023
Scout APM Changelog for September 2023
Scout APM Changelog - August 2023
Scout APM Changelog for August 2023
Scout APM Changelog - July 2023
Scout APM Changelog for July 2023
The Real Cost of Downtime
The length of downtime must be taken into consideration because the more time there is for data to fall out of sync, the longer it is down. Read about the long-term consequences of downtime.
Press Release: Scout APM announces new observability product, TelemetryHub
The Early Access Program (EAP) for TelemetryHub by Scout APM has just been released, according to Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
SPOTcon 2022 Recap
SPOTcon 2022 is an annual conference hosted by Scout APM that empowers developers with solutions that drive leading-edge transformation in application development and observability. This year’s event took place virtually and was an educational couple of days filled with insights into the current and future states of application monitoring and observability.
SPOTCon 2022 by Scout APM - Speaker List Announced!
Scout is focused on hosting the best community event for developers by offering informative sessions presented by industry-leading experts. To keep our promise to this mission, we are excited to announce the speakers for SPOTcon 2022.
7 of the Most Popular DevOps Certifications in 2021
Through the adoption of DevOps, development teams were able to provide continuous delivery of high-quality software to its end users. This guide will walk you through some of the most popular certifications currently available to take in DevOps!
Scout APM Announces Release of External Service Monitoring
Scout APM announced the release of Scout External Services Monitoring for Ruby, Python, and PHP applications on December 1, 2021. Scout APM provides developers, engineers, and application administrators software performance insights by delivering key web application performance metrics.
AppDynamics vs. Datadog vs. Scout APM
Working with an unprecedented amount of data means tackling millions/thousands of distinct data points. To analyze this information quickly, you need to display it visually to improve your natural spotting abilities. Check out these 3 popular data analyzing and visualization tools!
Comparing 7 New Relic Competitors in 2021
Most DevOps teams use APM tools throughout the software development life cycle to get feedback on the way their programs are working. Check out these 7 alternatives to New Relic!
Datadog vs. New Relic vs. Scout
Application performance management is one of the essential steps that every business must complete to ensure that their products work as desired and give the best experience to the end-users. Here's a comparison of 3 top tools on the market.
10 Popular Alternatives to AppDynamics
AppDynamics is a prominent application performance monitoring tool (APM) designed to facilitate application performance and user experience according to business plans. However, it has its shortcomings. Read more to learn about 10 popular alternatives.
Scout APM Announces Release of Error Monitoring
Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM), announced the release of Scout Error Monitoring for Ruby applications on June 1, 2021. Scout APM provides developers and application administrators software performance insights by delivering key web application performance metrics.
Prometheus vs. Datadog: Which is Right for your Business?
Consistent monitoring of your applications is essential for your business’s success. This article discusses key differences between two competitors in the application monitoring market, Prometheus and Datadog.
Here's What Software Errors Could be Costing your Business
Software errors are annoying – they are troublesome for IT departments and affect many company processes. Sometimes these software errors could have negligible impact, while on other occasions, they could wreak absolute havoc, especially for industries like banking, healthcare, airlines, and stock markets.
A Comparison of Top Application Performance Monitoring Tools
Choosing an APM tool that works best for you depends on the requirements of your application, audience, budget, team, among other factors. Take a look at a comparison of the best APM tools on the market based on a specific set of criteria.
Comparing the Most Popular Node.js Frameworks in 2021
People often confuse Node.js with Frameworks/programming languages. Node.js is a runtime environment that helps run javascript on servers and helps developers build applications on server-side, desktop, and mobile applications.
24 PHP Bloggers, Developers, and Podcasts to Follow in 2021
This list is comprised mainly of bloggers, developers, and Podcasts you should follow to help propel you forward on your PHP journey.
Top 20 DevOps Blogs to Keep Your Eye on in 2021
DevOps has taken over the world, and more and more companies are starting to adopt the DevOps culture in their process. However, DevOps is not just about the tools; it’s about the process and culture towards building and deploying software applications.
The Top Python Blogs, Developers, and Podcasts of 2021
Whether you've just picked up Python or are a programmer who wants to keep up with everything around Python, here is a list of developers, blogs, resources, podcasts, etc., that will help you on your journey.
The 8 Most Popular Javascript Frameworks in 2021
Depending on different backgrounds and requirements, we have categorized the top frameworks into three categories – frontend, backend, and testing frameworks. If you are thinking of building a new application from scratch or getting started with a Javascript framework, this post should help you make an informed decision about where to start.
30 Ruby Developers You Should Follow in 2021
This exhaustive list is full of current developers, up-to-date blogs, resources, and ongoing podcasts that will help you along your Ruby journey.
Speakers Announced for SPOTcon 2021
SPOTcon 2021 is the latest digital conference for developers from around the world to meet, engage with, and learn about solutions that drive leading-edge transformation in application development.
Meet our New Director of Marketing!
We’re excited to announce that Ashton Howe has joined Scout APM as our new Director of Marketing! Ashton brings to the team a unique expertise at the intersection of marketing, attribution, data science and strategy, and will lead the development of an industry-leading marketing program to engage, inform, and support ...
The $5B DevOps Stranglehold
A compilation of the best application infrastructure and monitoring alternatives available.
Meet our New VP Ops!
Scout APM adds Experienced Software Exec, Angie O’Keefe, as VP Operations.
The 15 Best Podcasts for Engineers
The 15 Best Podcasts for Engineers If you’ve been on the hunt for a new developer podcast, then you understand just how difficult and fruitless that hunt can be. You can spend hours online sifting through coding podcasts, programming podcasts, and devops podcasts just to realize one simple thing: none ...
New Relic vs. Scout: Which Is The Right APM For You?
There's no type of monitoring tool that can get to the heart of a performance problem faster than Application Performance Management (APM). If you're making this decision, use this guide to choose between New Relic and Scout.
Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory
Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory At Scout, we pride ourselves in building a tool that is focused on the developers’ ability to quickly identify performance issues within their applications so they can fix them and resume building the fun stuff. DreamFactory is a robust role-based access tool ...
Partnering with Render and Manifold
We’re thrilled that ScoutAPM is now available on Render via Manifold’s new Marketplace-as-a-Service offering. For those of you not familiar, Render is a new unified cloud platform that lets developers build and run all their websites, apps, static sites, background workers, and microservice APIs from one place at a lower ...
Introducing AutoInstruments: zero-effort performance monitoring of custom Ruby code
AutoInstruments wraps instrumentation around code expressions in Ruby on Rails controllers by inspecting Ruby’s Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) as code is loaded. These code expressions then appear in traces, just like the many libraries Scout already instruments.
Honeybadger Integration with Scout
We are happy to announce that Scout now integrates with the popular error monitoring solution, Honeybadger. This integration brings a similar feature set to our existing Rollbar, Sentry and Bugsnag integrations, and it allows you to see your errors and exceptions alongside your performance metrics all on a single page. So let’s take this opportunity to take a closer look at Honeybadger and see how you can get it setup within Scout in just a few minutes!
Monitorama 2019 - Portland, Oregon
Talks from industry experts and community leaders discuss the newest approaches in monitoring and observability. Find out which tools and techniques are in use at some of the largest web architectures in the world.
Ditch the Relic in Hakuba
Last week we were delighted to host Ditch the Relic Hakuba. We combined foreign lands, foreign friends and a mission to make developer lives’ easier--and produced an amazing output of features, perspectives, and photos… starting with:
11 Awesome Elixir Jobs for 2019 (and some incredible perks)
Elixir has Arrived Elixir is a programming language that is beginning to gather steam. Originally released in 2011, it is a functional and dynamic language, and runs on the Erlang VM (Virtual Machine). Elixir is highly scalable and fault tolerant. In other words, Elixir is perfect for today's software landscape of microservices and cloud computing.
Quick blog post about throughput sparkline feature
We've had sparkline charts of response time for a long time on our Endpoints tab, and now have extended them to the throughput column as well. Quickly isolate endpoints that are spiking with traffic, and drill down into them to diagnose. No need to hunt to see what's causing an unusual trend in traffic.
5 traits of teams that make on-call less terrible for developers
Over the past two weeks, there's been considerable discussion on whether developers should be on-call. I understand the frustration of the anti on-call party. If you go to school to be a doctor, you know that being on-call is likely in your future. You didn't know that being on-call would ...
DevOpsDaysRox
Last week, I spent Thursday (4/23/15) and Friday (4/24/15) at DevOpsDaysRox . If you've never attended a DevOpsDays events - find your closest one here and signup now. So what makes DevOps Day special? First, you'll find an active community that prides itself on inclusion and making everyone feel welcome. ...
Notifcation groups coming Jan 15th
On Jan 15th, all Scout accounts will be switched over to notification groups. Notification groups are designed to make notifiation management easier and more flexible: instead of managing notifications per-plugin/per-user, you will assign users to notification groups, and apply notification groups to triggers. you can have multiple PagerDuty integrations and ...
Kestrel in Production at Papertrail
We’ve added prolific plugin contributor Eric Lindvall ’s latest plugins to Scout: Kestrel Overall and Kestrel Queue Monitoring . Kestrel is a simple message queue built from production needs at Twitter. Being the gentleman he is, Eric shared his experiences with Kestrel at Papertrail , a hosted log aggregation service. ...
Tina Fey: go with the bran muffin on the white plate
First, Tina Fey needs to write more. Both of her New Yorker articles have been terrific. Second, her latest New Yorker piece had a great nugget on how producing is about discouraging creativity: You may have an occasion where the script calls for a bran muffin on a white plate, ...
CouchDB in production
John P. Wood of Signal , which offers a mobile customer engagement platform used by many top brands, recently created a couple of Scout Plugins for monitoring CouchDB . I’ve always been impressed by the team at Signal, so I was curious how they were using CouchDB in production. It ...
5 Pillars of Rails Cluster Monitoring
Photo by mollypop My how you’ve grown! A couple of years ago your little Rails app was on a single server. Now you’re on a whole cluster – you’ve got web servers, database servers, HAProxy servers, and more. I’m so proud of you! Monitoring your Rails cluster has gotten more ...
Monitor MySQL queries with Scout
Robin Ward of Forumwarz has released a MySQL slow queries plugin for Scout that does exactly what you’d expect: sends an alert when a slow query is run. Derek Laptop"/> The alert contains the full query along with the query time: Alert"/> Note that you’ll need to enable slow query ...