Scout Blog
AcuBliss is a booking and scheduling platform built with a lean engineering team. This is how they caught a production slowdown before their users did, and how Scout changed the way they debug.
AI makes building faster. It also makes production problems faster. If you ship without monitoring, you are flying blind at 10x speed.
A practical comparison of APM tools for small development teams without dedicated DevOps or SRE. Covers Scout, Sentry, Honeybadger, AppSignal, New Relic, and Datadog.
Looking for a Sentry alternative? A practical comparison of tools that offer more integrated APM, simpler pricing, or better fit for specific languages and team sizes.
How to switch from Datadog to Scout, what to expect, and what BackerKit learned when their 5-person team made the move.
A practical look at APM tools for Elixir and Phoenix applications as of May 2026.
Agent releases across Ruby, Python, Elixir, CLI, and MCP. BackerKit on switching from Datadog. Scout on AWS Marketplace. Blue Ridge Ruby and PHPverse. And something in the works we think you will like.
How to find, fix, and prevent N+1 queries in Elixir applications using Ecto. Covers Repo.preload, inline preloads, Oban jobs, Phoenix LiveView patterns, and automatic detection with Scout.
How to find, fix, and prevent N+1 queries in Rails applications. Covers ActiveRecord includes, preload, eager_load, the Bullet gem, Sidekiq jobs, and automatic detection with Scout.
Application performance monitoring gives engineering teams visibility into how their software behaves in production. Here is what APM is, what it measures, and how modern teams use it to go from alert to fix.
BackerKit's lean engineering team manages $3.7B in crowdfunding pledges with five developers. Here is how switching from Datadog to Scout changed their weekly performance routine and how they are using Scout MCP with GitHub Copilot.
Understanding what your application performance metrics mean both independently and together is key in effectively using your APM system.