A lot landed in May. A lot of what we shipped has been in the works for a while, and it felt good to get it out the door.
The theme, if there’s one, is meeting engineers where they work. We improved the MCP server and CLI so Scout data is easier to access inside terminals, workflows, and AI tools. And we introduced bundled packages to make it simpler to use APM, errors, and logs together.
We also released a new SmartMonitoring feature, anomaly detection. It’s included in all plans. No upgrade required. More on this feature below.
Anomaly Detection
Knowing something is slow is one thing. Knowing something is unusually slow, without having to set a threshold in advance, is a different problem. That’s what we are looking to solve.
Scout now watches your endpoints and background jobs for performance regressions. One-off spikes get filtered out, leaving the stuff worth paying attention to.
We also added seasonal intelligence. Before firing an event, Scout checks the same-hour data from the prior week. Traffic patterns that look anomalous at 2am on a Tuesday often aren’t. They’re just your app behaving normally. Seasonal intelligence filters that noise out.
Sensitivity is configurable so you can tune it to match how your app actually behaves.
We’re enabling this for orgs in beta now. If you want to see what it surfaces in your app, reach out at support@scoutapm.com and we’ll get you set up. We’d love to hear what you find.
DigitalOcean + AWS Marketplace
Scout is now available as a DigitalOcean Add-On. If your team procures software through DO, this is the straightforward path to getting Scout on your account. Add Scout on DigitalOcean.
Scout is also available on the AWS Marketplace. If your team procures software through AWS, add Scout there directly.
MCP Server
The hosted Scout MCP server now exposes a get_usage tool, matching what’s already available in scout-mcp-local. It returns billing-period usage data (APM transactions, errors, logs, node counts) to your AI assistant, the same way scout usage works in the CLI.
Haven’t seen it yet? Check out our customer resource channel for a quick walkthrough.
“With their CLI and MCP, it’s really easy to pull the data out and analyze it.” – Tyler S., Co-Founder
Bundled Pricing
APM, errors, and logs together starting at $59/month. If you’ve been running Scout for performance monitoring and curious about errors or logs, this is the straightforward way to add them without a separate evaluation. See packages.
From the Scout Community: AcuBliss
AcuBliss runs a booking and scheduling platform with a small engineering team. Small teams don’t get to spend afternoons chasing slow endpoints through logs. So when a performance problem surfaced, they connected Claude Code to Scout’s MCP server and let it work.
Scout handed over the trace: 637ms average, 4.28 second worst case, 418 SQL queries. Claude Code traced it to three N+1 patterns in the same serializer and ranked them by impact. The fix was clear before anyone opened a log file. Total time: under three minutes.
That’s what it looks like when your AI assistant has the right context to start with. Read the full story.
Events: Where We’ll Be
JetBrains PHPverse 2026 — June 9th, online A free streaming PHP event with 55,000+ developers worldwide. Scout is a proud sponsor. Grab your spot!
Node.js Agent (Coming Soon)
The Node.js agent is nearly ready. Out of the box, you’ll get automatic instrumentation for:
- Express and NestJS
- MongoDB, Redis (ioredis and node-redis), Prisma
- Outbound fetch calls
- Error monitoring via
captureError(), with middleware for Express and NestJS that captures unhandled errors automatically
We’ll announce when it’s live.
Questions or something not working right? We’re always glad to hear from you at support@scoutapm.com.