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Adding FastMCP support to the Scout Python Agent

Scout Senior Developer Quinn walks us through adding FastMCP instrumentation to our Python agent. The Scout MCP server enables Scout users to query their Scout agent about application performance so that the agent can make decisions and fix issues based on that data.

Announcing Scout’s MCP Server for AI-Native Monitoring!

We’re excited to introduce the Scout Monitoring MCP Server — a new way to bring AI-native monitoring directly into your coding assistant. Instead of flipping between dashboards and logs, the MCP server surfaces performance data, errors, and slow endpoints right inside your AI tool.

Supporting Justice for Youth: How CASA and Ruby for Good Are Making a Difference

The CASA organizations connect trained volunteer advocates with children in the foster care system. Ruby for Good is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization that connects developers with organizations like CASA to create technology to serve the greater good. In this case, the result is a multi-tenant codebase that currently serves multiple active CASA organizations, with the potential to scale across court systems nationwide.

August Newsletter

News from the Scout team. Error Monitoring is in Beta. Chaskiq customer spotlight. Fun stuff we've scouted.

Scout Gives Cookpad Actionable, Rails-Specific Performance Insights

For more than a decade, Cookpad, a global platform for recipe sharing and search, has relied on APM tools to monitor critical application performance metrics, like server response times and resource usage. When their previous APM tool became too expensive after price increases, they needed to find a new solution that could check all of their boxes. Scout offered Cookpad what they needed: transaction-level insights to pinpoint slow components, alerts for response time and throughput at the endpoint level, and predictable, developer-friendly pricing.