Best Error Monitoring for Rails in 2026
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.
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Best APM for Node.js in 2026
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.
Monitoring NestJS Applications in Production: What Actually Matters
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.
Detecting N+1 Queries in Prisma and Node.js with Scout
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.
May Newsletter
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 Uses Claude Code and Scout to Debug N+1s in Minutes
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.
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.
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.