New Relic vs Scout: A Comparison for Teams Who Actually Ship Code
Compare Scout and New Relic APM: pricing, framework support, and the case against per-user observability pricing. Unlimited users on every Scout plan.
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Rechain improves performance visibility and gets 4x faster issue resolution with Scout Monitoring
Rechain saw their performance decline as their customer base scaled up. Graduating to Scout helped them get a handle on their issues and fix them before their users even saw them.
October Newsletter
News from the Scout team. Introducing Scout's MCP Server for AI-native monitoring.
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.
What is AI-Native Monitoring? The Complete Guide for Developers
AI-native monitoring is designed for teams shipping AI-generated code. It brings errors, metrics, and performance data into your LLM, where you already work. Learn how this new approach helps developers tame black-box AI code, cut tool sprawl, and stay in flow — making apps built with AI-generated code easier to debug, scale, and trust.
Hand Code or no Code, Scout Keeps Error Monitoring Out of the Log Mess
What happens when issues aren't obvious? Good monitoring can keep you in the know and a step ahead of your users, preventing broken trust and lost revenue.
August Newsletter
News from the Scout team. Error Monitoring is in Beta. Chaskiq customer spotlight. Fun stuff we've scouted.
Rails APM Quickstart: Scout vs Sentry in 2025
A side-by-side look at Scout vs. Sentry application monitoring. Which tool is the best fit for your application?
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.
Key Early Considerations Before Big Architecture or Technology Decisions
In this final part, the Scout team continues our talk with Freedom Dumalo, former CTO at Flexcar and current CTO at Vestmark. We discuss some essential questions about architecture, touch on Rails, Turbo, and Stimulus, and the key considerations for those starting off before they lock in an architecture or tech decision.
Scout helps DynaBliss build medical practice management software
DynaBliss, building speciality medical practice platforms with Scout