A year ago, our team started playing with Elixir. We liked it - a lot. In fact, it's the first language we've used since Ruby that we'd unanimously love to build web apps with. With that, we're excited to announce BETA support for Elixir app monitoring @ Scout. Get started ... Read more

> We've added one of the top feature requets to app monitoring: alerting. Alerting keeps your team updated if your app's performance degrades. Alerts can be configured on the app as a whole and on individual endpoints. Metrics include: mean response time 95th percentile response time Apdex error rate throughput ... Read more

Along with a couple other members of the Scout team, I'm heading to sunny Phoenix, Arizona in mid-April for RailsConf . I'm a performance addict, so I've been scanning through the sessions and making notes of the ones that stand out. My performance short-list is below. 1. What's my app ... Read more

Starting with Fiveruns TuneUp in 2008, a number of in-browser Rails profilers have come, gone, or continue to exist but in a zombie-like half-alive state. Finding profilers that reliably work in 2017 with little effort was a bigger challenge than I thought. Here's a 2017 summary of the Rails profiler ... Read more

Exceptions happen. To everyone. For half a decade, Honeybadger has given sanity to the art of bug hunting, monitoring exceptions for Heroku, eBay, DigitalOcean, and many more. I was able to steal some time from Ben Curtis, one of the Honeybadger co-founders, to talk about their origin story, life as ... Read more

Are folks upgrading to Rails 5? Where is the Postgres vs. MySQL battle heading? Are devs embracing Puma and concurrency? If you're curious about the above, you've come to the right place. We collect gems used on the apps we monitor at Scout to assist with debugging issues and to ... Read more

We've pushed a lot of features this year at Scout. Here's a look back at what we've added to app monitoring in 2016: February Completed a significant effort reducing our agent resource usage and open-sourced our agent overhead benchmarks . April Sidekiq monitoring Backtraces for N+1 queries ( background on ... Read more

I follow a simple rule before configuring a monitoring alert: if I receive this alert at 3am, will I act on it? If not, it shouldn't be an alert. Few performance-related alerts meet this criteria. For example, if our app is running 25% slower, it's not worth a hasty 3am ... Read more

We're happy to introduce a lightweight addition to Scout: GitHub-enhanced deploy tracking . ​Deploy tracking makes it easy to correlate deploys to your app's performance. Scout's deploy tracking goes beyond chart markers: enable our GitHub integration to see which branch or tag was deployed, the team members that contributed, and ... Read more

DevTrace is a performance widget for your Rails applications in development. It sits unobtrusively in the corner of your page, just waiting to drop insight on your application: See stack traces, SQL timings, and more with just a click! This kind of insight is powerful. You can see how your ... Read more