# Scout Monitoring

> Scout Monitoring provides error monitoring, log management, and application performance monitoring (APM) for Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP, and Elixir applications. Scout helps development teams find and fix performance issues before they impact users. Scout's MCP server and CLI give AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor direct access to production errors, traces, and performance data.

## About

Scout Monitoring is a developer-focused observability platform for AI-assisted development. Our tools provide code-level visibility into application performance, including request tracing, query analysis, error tracking, log management, and anomaly detection. We support Ruby on Rails, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Express, NestJS, Laravel, Phoenix, and other popular frameworks. Scout's MCP server, CLI, and API give AI coding agents access to production data for debugging and performance analysis.

## Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)

- Small-to-medium engineering teams (2-50 developers)
- Teams running Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP, or Elixir web applications
- Organizations seeking a simpler alternative to complex enterprise APM tools (Datadog, New Relic)
- Development teams that value quick setup (under 5 minutes) and actionable insights
- Teams using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor) who want production context in their development workflow
- Companies running on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Heroku, DigitalOcean, etc.)

## Key Use Cases

- Identifying slow database queries and N+1 query patterns (automatic, zero config)
- Tracing request performance across application layers with code-level detail
- Monitoring error rates and debugging exceptions in context with linked traces
- Analyzing log data alongside performance metrics (Ruby, Python, Elixir)
- Anomaly detection that learns each endpoint's normal behavior (no thresholds to set)
- Alerting on performance regressions before users are affected
- AI-assisted development: query errors, traces, and performance data from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool
- Tracking deploy impact on application performance

## Core Products

- [App Traces](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/app-traces/): Code-level request tracing
- [App Metrics](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/app-metrics/): Real-time performance dashboards
- [Query Analysis](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/query-analysis/): Database query monitoring and N+1 detection
- [Log Management](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/log-management/): Unified log viewing with performance context
- [Error Monitoring](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/error-monitoring/): Integrated error tracking with APM data
- [Alerting](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/alerting/): Custom performance alert thresholds
- [Anomaly Detection](https://www.scoutapm.com/features/anomaly-monitoring/): Automatic detection of unusual performance behavior
- [MCP Server](https://www.scoutapm.com/mcp/): AI-native integration for Claude Code, Cursor, and MCP-compatible tools
- [CLI](https://www.scoutapm.com/cli/): Terminal access to monitoring data with TOON format for LLM consumption

## Language Agents

- [Ruby Monitoring](https://www.scoutapm.com/ruby-monitoring/): Rails, Sinatra, Grape, Sidekiq, Resque, GoodJob, Solid Queue
- [Python Monitoring](https://www.scoutapm.com/python-monitoring/): Django, Flask, FastAPI, Celery, Dramatiq
- [Node.js Monitoring](https://www.scoutapm.com/nodejs-monitoring/): Express, NestJS, Prisma
- [PHP Monitoring](https://www.scoutapm.com/php-monitoring/): Laravel, Symfony
- [Elixir Monitoring](https://www.scoutapm.com/elixir-phoenix-monitoring/): Phoenix, LiveView, Oban

## Resources

- [Documentation](https://scoutapm.com/docs)
- [Blog](https://www.scoutapm.com/blog/)
- [Pricing](https://www.scoutapm.com/pricing/)
- [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/keGzRHD3pv)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/scoutapp)

## Contact

- Website: https://www.scoutapm.com
- Sign up: https://scoutapm.com/users/sign_up
- Support: support@scoutapm.com