How to Combat Python Memory Leaks
Memory leaks can easily take down a healthy running application within hours if not minutes, but they can be hard to detect. Read more to learn how to combat python memory leaks!
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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.
A Comprehensive Guide to Migrating from Python 2 to Python 3
Comprehensive Guide to Migrating from Python 2 (Legacy Python) to Python 3. Python powers many applications we use day-to-day like Reddit, Instagram, Dropbox, Spotify, etc. The adoption of Python 3 has been a subject of debate in the Python community for long. While Python 3 has been out for more than a decade now, but there wasn’t much incentive to migrate ...
OpenTelemetry Collector - What Is It?
The OpenTelemetry collector is optional when using a SaaS service like Scout. Even so, knowing what the Collector can do and when to use it is helpful to understand. Click to learn more!
How to Manage Ruby Memory Usage
In this post, we are about to take a look at how Ruby, one of the most prominent programming languages and an awesome web application alternative when combined with Rails, manages memory, and how you can make it perform even better.
OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing in JavaScript
In this post, we’ll cover how to configure OpenTelemetry in the front-end JavaScript in order to measure performance of browser and mobile devices and how to configure distributed tracing to work across the front-end and back-end telemetry collection.
The Best Python Error Monitoring Tools in 2026
Comparing the best Python error monitoring tools in 2026 for Django, Flask, and FastAPI. Honest reviews of Scout Monitoring, Sentry, Bugsnag, Rollbar, AppSignal, and Datadog.
Monolithic Application Performance Monitoring
Monitoring monolithic architecture is challenging as you cannot see each part of the architecture separately. Read more to learn how to monitor monolithic architecture successfully!
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!
Configuring OpenTelemetry in Ruby
OpenTelemetry is enabling a revolution in how Observability data is collected and transmitted. See our What Is OpenTelemetry post on why this is an important inflection point in the Observability space. In this post, we’ll walk through how to configure the OpenTelemetry Gems within a Rails app.
Python Performance Measurement Tools
Python performance measurement tools help us to identify performance bottlenecks in our app. This allows us to focus on the business login as opposed to writing custom code, setting it up with our app, and then figuring out whether the results are accurate enough. These tools are well tested by the open source community and used by many companies to measure the performance of their web apps.
Stackify vs. New Relic vs. Scout | APM Tool Comparison
There are a lot of monitoring tools on the market to choose from, but how do you know which one is right for your business? Check out this comparison of 3 top tools on the market: Stackify, New Relic and Scout.