Scout APM 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Features
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User Reviews

Overview

Scout APM

4.8

(4)

Pricing

Starting at $161.00 per month

About Scout APM

Scout APM makes it easy to quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve performance issues in production code. With real-time alerts and a powerful UI that lets you drill down into source code for a faster MTTR. Spend less time debugging and more time building what you love.

Scout APM Screenshots

Scout APM Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $161.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$161.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Alerting
Daily Digest Emails
Github Integration
Background Job Monitoring
Detailed Transaction Traces
Deploy Tracking
Slow Query Database Monitoring

Plus

$249.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Alerting
Daily Digest Emails
Github Integration
Background Job Monitoring
Detailed Transaction Traces
Deploy Tracking
Slow Query Database Monitoring

Pro

$499.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Alerting
Daily Digest Emails
Github Integration
Background Job Monitoring
Detailed Transaction Traces
Deploy Tracking
Slow Query Database Monitoring
Dedicated Account Manager
SAML Support

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Alerting
Daily Digest Emails
Github Integration
Background Job Monitoring
Detailed Transaction Traces
Deploy Tracking
Slow Query Database Monitoring
Dedicated Account Manager
SAML Support
PII Audits

Popular features found in Server Management
Capacity Planning
CPU Monitoring
Credential Management
Incident Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Patch Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Scheduling
Virtual Machine Monitoring
More features of Scout APM
Diagnostic Tools
Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis

Scout APM Integrations

Slack

Scout APM User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

75%

25%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

5.0

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.5

Have you used Scout APM and would like to share your experience with others?

Casey R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Should have switched over from New Relic sooner

Scout helped us save money on APM, and our developers have found it much easier to use. We spend less time doing dev / ops and more time coding.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Scout has been a breath of fresh air after coming from the world of New Relic. We're paying ~40% less than we were with New Relic, and Scout has made our dev team more effective, as the most common sources of performance issues are surfaced right on the Scout dashboard, so we don't have to toggle back and forth through countless charts to find the issues.

Cons:

The one downside of Scout is that they don't do everything -- they've decided just to focus on APM and do that extremely well, so they don't have the same breadth as New Relic. That being said, Scout integrates well with Sentry, and using a combination of the two has still been significantly cheaper than New Relic, and I think both Scout and Sentry's solutions are better than New Relic, so for us it was well worth the switch.

Kyle C.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2017

Best APM tool for finding *and fixing* performance bugs in your application code

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to setup, easy to use. Nice email updates about performance changes day-to-day. Integrates into local apps as well, helping avoid deployment of performance issues. And a great support team!

Cons:

The free tier restricts the duration of data access. Makes sense for their business (and I'm glad they even have a free tier), but it does make it tougher to track performance over longer time horizons.

Mike

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2013

very flexible and powerfull

Like a good Linux tool, Scout's plugin system makes it endlessly flexible. With a bit of Ruby, I can quickly gather the metrics I need, view them on charts and dashboards, and get alerted when metrics head into bad territory

Ratings Breakdown

Nicholas R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed October 2014

Amazing, easy to use product

Using Scout has been great. It allows us easily monitor server resources without any hassle. It takes no time to set up and gives me the peace of mind that things are falling over. I absolutely recommend Scout.

Ratings Breakdown

Pros:

- Plugin library to extend functionality - Super functional out of the box - Easy to use - Amazing and friendly support

Cons:

- UI could use a face-lift

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