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Scout APM

Scout Monitoring

Composite Score

7.1 /10

CX Score

7.1 /10

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What is Scout Monitoring?

Scout is Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that finds what you can't see in charts. Since 2008, Scout has continually tracked and isolated N+1 database queries, sources of memory bloat, and performance abnormalities for leading-edge SaaS companies.

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Scout Monitoring Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

91 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+85 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Scout Monitoring?

0% Negative

4% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Effective Service
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

100

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

100

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

100

Domain-Centric AI/ML

100

Automated Diagnostics

100

Server Monitoring

Scalability

Dependency Tracking

Application Metric Reporting

Code Performance Monitoring

Transaction Request Performance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Scout Monitoring Reviews

Nirmala k.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2026

Smart monitoring for faster resolution.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Scout Monitoring from other similar products?

It provides meaningful performance insights through a clean and intuitive interface, allowing both operations and development teams to focus on improving application reliability rather than managing the monitoring solution itself.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It helps identify the root cause of application performance issues. Instead of spending hours digging through logs and metrics i can use its transaction tracing and performance insights to pinpoint slow requests, database queries or code bottlenecks in minutes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It provides strong application performance insights but it may lack some of the advanced monitoring, analytics and customization capabilities available in larger enterprise platforms. Teams managing diverse environments may need additional tools to achieve complete visibility across their technology stack.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend it for teams that want simple deployment, clear performance insights and fast troubleshooting. Just ensure its observability features align with your organization's monitoring needs especially if you require advanced infrastructure or log monitoring.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Cons

Less Caring

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

Good product, good UI but less feature-rich

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

Cons

Slower Product Innovation

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

ScoutAPM helps uncover performance problems

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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Scout Monitoring Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

91 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

3 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+85 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Scout Monitoring?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support Monitoring capabilities for cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure ServiceFabric.

Non-Commodity Operating Systems Non-Commodity Operating Systems capabilities such as AIX, z/OS, Solaris, IBM i, and z/Linux.

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML Domain-agnostic AI/ML capabilities for events via third-party collectors.

Domain-Centric AI/ML Intelligent algorithms, based on machine learning (ML), analyze different data sets to find connections and relationships between services and infrastructure.

Automated Diagnostics Automated diagnostics providing prebuilt workflows for problem detection, correlation of application behavior and performance, and determination of cause.

Server Monitoring Monitor usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, servers, containers, web services, caching, etc.

Scalability Scalability refers to the transaction size per second / time taken to put a transaction in the block and the time taken to reach a consensus.

Dependency Tracking Tracking the performance of all application dependencies.

Application Metric Reporting Tracking of both custom and basic application framework metrics.

Code Performance Monitoring Tracking application performance at the code-base level.

Transaction Request Performance Tracking & Observing the performance of an application and all web and other transactions within your system.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Scout Monitoring Reviews

Nirmala k.

Smart monitoring for faster resolution.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Good product, good UI but less feature-rich

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

ScoutAPM helps uncover performance problems

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Enterprise Cloud Platform Support

Non-Commodity Operating Systems

Domain-Agnostic AI/ML

Domain-Centric AI/ML

Automated Diagnostics

Server Monitoring

Scalability

Dependency Tracking

Application Metric Reporting

Code Performance Monitoring

Transaction Request Performance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement