Scout APM Alternative

AppSignal is a powerful Scout APM alternative.

Searching for a Scout APM alternative? AppSignal offers transparent pricing, amazing features, exceptional technical support, and a user-friendly interface.

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AppSignal makes monitoring simple

  • Request based pricing
  • Free dev-to-dev support
  • Scalable logging
  • Relaxed upgrade policy
  • Beautiful, clutter-free UI
  • Full monitoring toolkit

Scout APM has limited functionality

  • Tiered pricing
  • Paid-for support
  • Expensive logging add-on
  • No flexibility
  • Complex, cluttered UI
  • No native error tracking

APM tools comparison

Why developers choose AppSignal over Scout APM.

AppSignal APM is the all-in-one Scout APM alternative that helps teams focus on writing great code. Your team will have all the tools they need in one easy-to-use interface.

Features

Scout APM

AppSignal

Error tracking
Yes, but only with a Rollbar integration
A simple solution-focused UI with all the bug-fixing data you need.
Performance monitoring
Host monitoring
Anomaly detection
Basic functionality. Referred to as Alert Conditions.
Designed to avoid alert fatigue.
Uptime monitoring
Don't ping us, we'll ping you. Easily add monitors via our app with a simple, beautiful overview.
Metric dashboards
Log management
Automated dashboards
Generated automatically based on the data you send us.
Background job and process monitoring
Monitor cron jobs, background processes and more with Check-ins.

Core functionality

Scout APM

AppSignal

Deploy markers
Referred to as Deploy tracking
Universally supported.
Namespace monitoring
Simple, no-fuss namespace set-up for all of our packages.
Tagging
Easy set-up, intuitive filtering, and querying.
Filter data
Severely limited, can be configured via uri_reporting config option.
Easily configured via denylist.
Custom metrics
Referred to as custom contexts.

Benefits

Scout APM

AppSignal

EU based hosting
The only EU-based APM.
Free 30-day trial
Only offers 14 day trial.
Includes all of our features.
Simple pricing
Tiered pricing with expensive logging add-on.
Flat, predictable pricing.
Relaxed upgrade policy
Hard cut-off once you exceed your plan.
No overage fees and no monitoring cut offs, we'll reach out when you're due an upgrade and make upgrading easy.
Free support
Support level varies depending on your plan.
Always talk to a real human!
Straightforward docs
Complex, cluttered documentation.
Written by devs, for devs.
Free stroopwaffles
You send us metrics, we send you stroopwaffles.

Simple Pricing with AppSignal

Straightforward all-in-one pricing.

Pay per request and enjoy unlimited users, apps, teams, and access to all features in one seamless tool. No subscription tiers, Rollbar dependency, expensive logging add-ons, or unexpected charges.

Logging Paid add-on1GB/month
APM € 18
Loggingfree
Price per month€ 18

Full monitoring toolkit

At AppSignal, error tracking is built-in as part of a full monitoring toolkit, unlike Scout APM, which requires an additional Rollbar subscription. Focus on performance without added costs.

Free human support

Scout APM charges for support. At AppSignal, all customers get free, unlimited dev-to-dev support, so you can make the most of your metrics without any extra costs.

Flexible fair billing

Unlike Scout APM's tiered pricing, hard cut-offs and bulky add-ons. AppSignal's flexible upgrade policy prevents surprise bills and ensures you always have access to your monitoring data.

Customer Stories

What our customers think

We love our customers, and they love us back. Over 1500+ development teams rely on AppSignal to ship code with confidence. Here's why AppSignal is a great alternative to Scout APM if you ask our customers.

Read customer stories

Grant

Developer, MEANS Database

AppSignal has done a great job of wrangling the complexity and making the user's life easier.

Matt

Founder, WrestlingIQ

The errors, performance, queue monitoring and n+1 callouts of AppSignal give me the insights into my production service that make me confident in shipping code.

Thimo

Developer, SportCity

Appsignal has been a tremendous help to us, so thanks for this service!

Frequently asked questions

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Start your free trial

Don’t let the bad bugs bite. Try AppSignal for free.

AppSignal offers a 30-day free trial, no credit card is required. All features are available in all plans. Start monitoring your application in just a few clicks!