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.
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.
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 DatabaseAppSignal has done a great job of wrangling the complexity and making the user's life easier.
Matt
Founder, WrestlingIQThe 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, SportCityAppsignal has been a tremendous help to us, so thanks for this service!
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