Five Tools for Profiling Rails Apps
Finding profilers that reliably work proves to be a bigger challenge than most devs think. Here's a summary of the Rails profiler ecosystem: what works, what doesn't, and each profiler's niche.
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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.
Monitor a Laravel app with Scout
Last month we talked about the PHP monitoring landscape in 2019 and announced that Scout APM would soon be available for monitoring your Laravel applications too (as well as your Ruby, Python and Elixir apps of course!). Now that our PHP monitoring agent is ready for beta testing, we thought it would be a good idea to show you folks how easy it is to get started with it and to highlight the main features to the Laravel community.
Finding slow ActiveRecord queries with Scout
Once your Rails app begins seeing consistent traffic, slow SQL queries will likely rear their ugly head, but how can you easily tell where your app is slowing down?