Scout Monitoring
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Scout Monitoring is the all-in-one monitoring platform for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Elixir developers—combining APM, error monitoring, and logs in one simple tool. Made for devs who own performance.
Quinn just added FastMCP support to the Scout Python agent and wrote up the whole approach.
It’s a practical look at how to instrument MCP tool calls with middleware: spans, arguments, errors, and metadata.
If you’re running your own MCP server, it’s worth a read.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/adding-...
It’s a practical look at how to instrument MCP tool calls with middleware: spans, arguments, errors, and metadata.
If you’re running your own MCP server, it’s worth a read.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/adding-...
Adding FastMCP support to the Scout Python Agent
Scout Senior Developer Quinn walks us through adding FastMCP instrumentation to our Python agent. The Scout MCP server enables Scout users to query their Scout agent about application performance so…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Quinn just added FastMCP support to the Scout Python agent and wrote up the whole approach.
It’s a practical look at how to instrument MCP tool calls with middleware: spans, arguments, errors, and metadata.
If you’re running your own MCP server, it’s worth a read.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/adding-...
It’s a practical look at how to instrument MCP tool calls with middleware: spans, arguments, errors, and metadata.
If you’re running your own MCP server, it’s worth a read.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/adding-...
Some bugs teach you something.
Some just waste your afternoon.
For the latter, let the AI do the work.
On fixing production bugs with Scout’s MCP server → www.scoutapm.com/blog/mcp-fou...
Some just waste your afternoon.
For the latter, let the AI do the work.
On fixing production bugs with Scout’s MCP server → www.scoutapm.com/blog/mcp-fou...
MCP found a thankless bug faster than us, and it was actually fun
Sometimes bugs just need to be fixed ASAP Having AI fix them with monitoring data straight from production is very fast and satisfying You should use Scout for errors and MCP
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November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Some bugs teach you something.
Some just waste your afternoon.
For the latter, let the AI do the work.
On fixing production bugs with Scout’s MCP server → www.scoutapm.com/blog/mcp-fou...
Some just waste your afternoon.
For the latter, let the AI do the work.
On fixing production bugs with Scout’s MCP server → www.scoutapm.com/blog/mcp-fou...
Code doesn’t just power apps, it powers justice.
Ruby for Good + CASA are proof that volunteer devs can change lives.
Full story here:
Ruby for Good + CASA are proof that volunteer devs can change lives.
Full story here:
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…
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October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Code doesn’t just power apps, it powers justice.
Ruby for Good + CASA are proof that volunteer devs can change lives.
Full story here:
Ruby for Good + CASA are proof that volunteer devs can change lives.
Full story here:
We launched something new: Scout’s MCP server!
Your coding assistant can now query app data and even propose fixes.
A step toward closing the loop between monitoring + development means more time to spend on what you want to be working on, less time juggling tools.
Check it out: ter.li/vp7re4
Your coding assistant can now query app data and even propose fixes.
A step toward closing the loop between monitoring + development means more time to spend on what you want to be working on, less time juggling tools.
Check it out: ter.li/vp7re4
Scout MCP
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October 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We launched something new: Scout’s MCP server!
Your coding assistant can now query app data and even propose fixes.
A step toward closing the loop between monitoring + development means more time to spend on what you want to be working on, less time juggling tools.
Check it out: ter.li/vp7re4
Your coding assistant can now query app data and even propose fixes.
A step toward closing the loop between monitoring + development means more time to spend on what you want to be working on, less time juggling tools.
Check it out: ter.li/vp7re4
Now Live: Error Monitoring in Scout
Scout Monitoring is now the complete platform for developers and lean dev teams to get full visibility into performance, logs, and errors—without setting up three tools.
One tool. One interface. One place to go from bug to fix — fast.
Scout Monitoring is now the complete platform for developers and lean dev teams to get full visibility into performance, logs, and errors—without setting up three tools.
One tool. One interface. One place to go from bug to fix — fast.
September 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Now Live: Error Monitoring in Scout
Scout Monitoring is now the complete platform for developers and lean dev teams to get full visibility into performance, logs, and errors—without setting up three tools.
One tool. One interface. One place to go from bug to fix — fast.
Scout Monitoring is now the complete platform for developers and lean dev teams to get full visibility into performance, logs, and errors—without setting up three tools.
One tool. One interface. One place to go from bug to fix — fast.
We just shipped error monitoring to GA.
No more finding out your app is broken from an angry user. Get alerted when things go sideways, see exactly what happened, and fix it before your users even notice.
Because reactive debugging is not a business strategy. Learn more here: buff.ly/ePgpsVA
No more finding out your app is broken from an angry user. Get alerted when things go sideways, see exactly what happened, and fix it before your users even notice.
Because reactive debugging is not a business strategy. Learn more here: buff.ly/ePgpsVA
September 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We just shipped error monitoring to GA.
No more finding out your app is broken from an angry user. Get alerted when things go sideways, see exactly what happened, and fix it before your users even notice.
Because reactive debugging is not a business strategy. Learn more here: buff.ly/ePgpsVA
No more finding out your app is broken from an angry user. Get alerted when things go sideways, see exactly what happened, and fix it before your users even notice.
Because reactive debugging is not a business strategy. Learn more here: buff.ly/ePgpsVA
"Scout has been a massive help in identifying bottlenecks in our application infrastructure as we scale. We’ve been able to identify memory leaks and N+1 queries to shave seconds off our most expensive queries and to improve the reliability of our site.”
-Brett Kushner, COO, Don't Tell Comedy
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August 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Scout has been a massive help in identifying bottlenecks in our application infrastructure as we scale. We’ve been able to identify memory leaks and N+1 queries to shave seconds off our most expensive queries and to improve the reliability of our site.”
-Brett Kushner, COO, Don't Tell Comedy
-Brett Kushner, COO, Don't Tell Comedy
“Scout can track and provide developers with insights for performance improvement. This helps us deliver a better experience to our users.” — Cookpad
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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…
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July 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Scout can track and provide developers with insights for performance improvement. This helps us deliver a better experience to our users.” — Cookpad
www.scoutapm.com/blog/cookpad
www.scoutapm.com/blog/cookpad
Making big architecture decisions? Start with your values, not the latest framework.
"Choose boring tech" for parts that don't need to scale, and save the complexity for where it actually matters.
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"Choose boring tech" for parts that don't need to scale, and save the complexity for where it actually matters.
buff.ly/mB6DDPF
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,…
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July 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Making big architecture decisions? Start with your values, not the latest framework.
"Choose boring tech" for parts that don't need to scale, and save the complexity for where it actually matters.
buff.ly/mB6DDPF
"Choose boring tech" for parts that don't need to scale, and save the complexity for where it actually matters.
buff.ly/mB6DDPF
DynaBliss, with 56k lines of code and 2,100+ components, faced performance challenges in their medical practice management platform. Scout APM improved performance with 70% faster requests and eliminated N+1 query issues. "Let's go to Scout" is now their catchphrase. Learn more: buff.ly/nBcMMsA
Scout helps DynaBliss build medical practice management software
DynaBliss, building speciality medical practice platforms with Scout
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July 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
DynaBliss, with 56k lines of code and 2,100+ components, faced performance challenges in their medical practice management platform. Scout APM improved performance with 70% faster requests and eliminated N+1 query issues. "Let's go to Scout" is now their catchphrase. Learn more: buff.ly/nBcMMsA
Chaskiq's devs were fighting N+1 queries and database bottlenecks that were invisible in local testing. New Relic showed them charts but not solutions. Scout showed them the exact code lines to fix. Result: 2x performance boost.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/chaskiq...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/chaskiq...
Chaskiq Improves Performance 2x with Scout
The team was experiencing bottlenecks in their database, n+1 queries, and slow requests and was struggling to catch performance issues in their local testing environment, where traffic patterns…
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July 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Chaskiq's devs were fighting N+1 queries and database bottlenecks that were invisible in local testing. New Relic showed them charts but not solutions. Scout showed them the exact code lines to fix. Result: 2x performance boost.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/chaskiq...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/chaskiq...
📰 Scout mid-year news! Soon: track errors + performance in one place. Smarter grouping, triaging & alerting, GitHub integration, Slack notifications + more! Plus, a list of updates you might have missed!
Full rundown here: www.scoutapm.com/blog/mid-yea...
Full rundown here: www.scoutapm.com/blog/mid-yea...
Mid-Year Update 2025
Error Monitoring announcement, Ruby and Python agent updates.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
📰 Scout mid-year news! Soon: track errors + performance in one place. Smarter grouping, triaging & alerting, GitHub integration, Slack notifications + more! Plus, a list of updates you might have missed!
Full rundown here: www.scoutapm.com/blog/mid-yea...
Full rundown here: www.scoutapm.com/blog/mid-yea...
Scout in EdTech! ForAll Systems got 3X faster average response times and 2X faster inefficient endpoint optimization in their Python applications, while also keeping their team lean.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/forall-...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/forall-...
ForAll Systems Saves Money and Improves Response Times 3X with Scout!
ForAll Systems Inc. is a Chicago-based educational technology company with more than 15 years of experience developing assessment software for K–12 school districts. Their team was dealing with N+1…
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June 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Scout in EdTech! ForAll Systems got 3X faster average response times and 2X faster inefficient endpoint optimization in their Python applications, while also keeping their team lean.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/forall-...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/forall-...
"ScoutAPM has been a much better experience than New Relic. It’s easy to use, uncluttered, and works smoothly with Ruby on Rails."
Paritosh Piplewar, Software Engineer at Greentoe www.greentoe.com
Paritosh Piplewar, Software Engineer at Greentoe www.greentoe.com
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June 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"ScoutAPM has been a much better experience than New Relic. It’s easy to use, uncluttered, and works smoothly with Ruby on Rails."
Paritosh Piplewar, Software Engineer at Greentoe www.greentoe.com
Paritosh Piplewar, Software Engineer at Greentoe www.greentoe.com
“I wonder how much of this overestimating scale comes from that desire to be able to sleep well and spend our weekends offline?”
In part 2 of our conversation with Freedom Dumlao, we dig into the persistent questions of speed, stack, and scale.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
In part 2 of our conversation with Freedom Dumlao, we dig into the persistent questions of speed, stack, and scale.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
The Architecture Loop: How Early Can We Decide Speed, Stack and Scale?
In 2025, many companies are reckoning with the true cost of microservices, especially as cloud bills grow and engineering teams face coordination fatigue.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“I wonder how much of this overestimating scale comes from that desire to be able to sleep well and spend our weekends offline?”
In part 2 of our conversation with Freedom Dumlao, we dig into the persistent questions of speed, stack, and scale.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
In part 2 of our conversation with Freedom Dumlao, we dig into the persistent questions of speed, stack, and scale.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
“Scout’s leadership and development team went out of their way to bring our volunteers up to speed in real-time. That willingness and agility was exceptional.” — Robert Sparks, IETF. Read how Scout helps orgs here:https://buff.ly/uUAv4Uk
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June 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Scout’s leadership and development team went out of their way to bring our volunteers up to speed in real-time. That willingness and agility was exceptional.” — Robert Sparks, IETF. Read how Scout helps orgs here:https://buff.ly/uUAv4Uk
“We are not Netflix. We do not need to scale like Netflix.” In the first part of the Scout Team's conversation with Freedom Dumlao, we dig into the real cost of microservices—and getting a grip on the loops in architectural trends.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
The Architecture Loop: MVC and the Hidden Costs of Microservices
In 2025, many companies are reckoning with the true cost of microservices, especially as cloud bills grow and engineering teams face coordination fatigue. The move back to monoliths is gaining…
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May 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“We are not Netflix. We do not need to scale like Netflix.” In the first part of the Scout Team's conversation with Freedom Dumlao, we dig into the real cost of microservices—and getting a grip on the loops in architectural trends.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/the-arc...
Big news! Coming soon: all your error reporting and application monitoring data in one place. Check this thread for details and to sign up for early access!
May 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Big news! Coming soon: all your error reporting and application monitoring data in one place. Check this thread for details and to sign up for early access!
We’ve had our last two team meetups in Salt Lake City and one of our team members from Utah has a scout of his own— 🐕 say hello to Tyr and his new fish friend!
May 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We’ve had our last two team meetups in Salt Lake City and one of our team members from Utah has a scout of his own— 🐕 say hello to Tyr and his new fish friend!
‼️ Coming soon, all of your error reporting and application monitoring data in one dashboard! Sign up today for early access. www.scoutapm.com/l/error-moni...
Join Scout Monitoring's Error Monitoring Beta
Join the waitlist to be the first notified when the Error Monitoring Beta is launched.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
‼️ Coming soon, all of your error reporting and application monitoring data in one dashboard! Sign up today for early access. www.scoutapm.com/l/error-moni...
Zartis has been awesome to work with! They've used Scout for 8+ years and have reduced mean response time by 40% and improved issue resolution speed by over 50%! Read more here: www.scoutapm.com/blog/zartis
How Zartis Drives Application Modernization with Scout Monitoring
Zartis is a digital solutions provider and Deloitte Fast50 company specializing in technology consulting, team augmentation, and product development. They partner with businesses to deliver high-quali...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Zartis has been awesome to work with! They've used Scout for 8+ years and have reduced mean response time by 40% and improved issue resolution speed by over 50%! Read more here: www.scoutapm.com/blog/zartis
As Rails apps scale, slow SQL can start to become an issue. Database logs can help, but don't show the location of the problem code. Read this post for an understanding of where the problems can start, and how Scout can send slowness packing.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/rails-a...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/rails-a...
Rails Apps and Slowdowns: How Scout Shows what Databases Don't
As Rails apps scale, slow SQL can start to become an issue. Database logs can help, but don't show the location of the problem code. Read this post for an understanding of where the problems can…
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April 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As Rails apps scale, slow SQL can start to become an issue. Database logs can help, but don't show the location of the problem code. Read this post for an understanding of where the problems can start, and how Scout can send slowness packing.
www.scoutapm.com/blog/rails-a...
www.scoutapm.com/blog/rails-a...
Alert: System reporting 100% success rate. (April Fools! Check your logs, something's definitely on fire.)
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Alert: System reporting 100% success rate. (April Fools! Check your logs, something's definitely on fire.)
Wishing you a weekend with no log jams. We'll parse through the details, so you can enjoy the finer things.
March 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Wishing you a weekend with no log jams. We'll parse through the details, so you can enjoy the finer things.