Tech riderRev. 9 Oct 2026
- 1Runs onAPI, Web
- 2CostsFree plan · free trial · paid from $10/mo
- 3Distributed tracingNo
- 4Transaction tracingYes
- 5Log correlationYes
- 6Deployment modelcloud
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Overview
Scout APM is ranked #13 of 33 in application performance monitoring on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $10/mo.
Scout APM plans and pricing
All plansStartup $19/mo 600K transactions · 5k errors · 1 GB logs · 10 endpoints monitored for anomalies scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
Small $39/mo 1.2M transactions · 5k errors · 1 GB logs · 10 endpoints monitored for anomalies scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
Production Ready $64/mo $108/mo also shown on page 1.2M monthly transactions · 50,000 errors · 30 GB log storage with 14-day retention · 20 endpoints monitored for anomalies · priority human support scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
Compared on application performance monitoring
- Free plan
- Yesscoutapm.com
- Paid from
- $19/moscoutapm.com
- Distributed tracing
- Noscoutapm.com
- Transaction tracing
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- Log correlation
- Yesscoutapm.com
- Deployment model
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Facts
- Purpose
- Scout provides application performance monitoring and observability tools to help engineering teams identify and fix performance problems.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Monitoring data
- Scout combines traces, metrics, logs, error tracking, and alerting in one platform.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The site lists Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js agents.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Query analysis
- Scout detects slow database queries and N+1 patterns and provides query analysis.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Anomaly detection
- Scout learns each endpoint's normal patterns and alerts when performance behavior changes, without requiring thresholds to be configured.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- AI tooling
- Scout says its MCP server, CLI, and API let AI coding agents access production errors, traces, and performance data.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- Every plan includes human support; paid plans get priority response times and Enterprise includes dedicated premier support.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Security
- Scout states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified, conducts annual third-party penetration testing, and encrypts data at rest and in transit.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- HIPAA
- Scout says Enterprise can be used in HIPAA-compliant environments with appropriate data handling agreements and security measures, and that a BAA is available.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Plan limits
- When a plan's monthly transaction limit is exceeded, Scout continues monitoring but stops recording new transactions in the dashboard.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
- Company
- Scout Monitoring is the product of Zimuth, Inc.scoutapm.com · 9 Oct 2026
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Sources
- scoutapm.com/about· checked 9 Oct 2026
- scoutapm.com· checked 9 Oct 2026
- scoutapm.com/integrations· checked 9 Oct 2026
- scoutapm.com/pricing· checked 9 Oct 2026
- scoutapm.com/security· checked 9 Oct 2026