Scout APM
Scout APM is a cloud application performance monitoring platform from Zimuth, Inc., built to help engineering teams find and address application performance …
What Scout APM is
Scout APM is a cloud application performance monitoring platform from Zimuth, Inc., built to help engineering teams find and address application performance problems. It brings transaction traces, metrics, logs, error tracking, and alerting together. Scout lists agents for Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js, and offers API and web access. It can flag slow database queries and N+1 patterns, with query analysis for investigating them. Its anomaly detection learns typical behavior for each endpoint and alerts when performance changes, without requiring teams to set thresholds. Scout also provides an MCP server, CLI, and API for AI coding agents to access production errors, traces, and performance data. Integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub. A free plan includes 300K monthly transactions, 1 GB log data, 5,000 errors, one anomaly-monitored endpoint, and unlimited users and apps. Every plan includes human support.
Good
- Combines traces, metrics, logs, errors, and alerts.
- Detects slow queries and N+1 patterns.
- Learns endpoint behavior for anomaly alerts.
- Every plan includes human support.
Watch out
- Free plan monitors anomalies on one endpoint.
- Transaction limits stop new dashboard recording when exceeded.
Who it suits
Scout suits engineering teams that need to trace transactions, investigate errors, and monitor application performance. Its language agents and AI-access tools may also suit teams working with those supported stacks or coding agents.
Verdict
Scout brings several performance signals and query analysis into one monitoring platform, with endpoint anomaly alerts and support on every plan. Check the plan limits against your transaction, error, log, and endpoint needs.
Plans and prices
From Scout APM's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| More Anomaly Detection | $10 a month | 10 additional endpoints monitored |
| Startup | $19 a month | 600K transactions · 5k errors · 1 GB logs · 10 endpoints monitored for anomalies |
| More Errors | $19 a month | 50,000 additional errors |
| Small | $39 a month | 1.2M transactions · 5k errors · 1 GB logs · 10 endpoints monitored for anomalies |
| More Logs | $40 a month | 30 GB additional log storage |
| Production Ready | $64 a month | 1.2M monthly transactions · 50,000 errors · 30 GB log storage with 14-day retention · 20 endpoints monitored for anomalies · priority human support · $108/mo also shown on page |
| Medium | $99 a month | 3M transactions · 5k errors · 1 GB logs · 10 endpoints monitored for anomalies |
| Large | $299 a month | 9M transactions · 5k errors · 1 GB logs · 10 endpoints monitored for anomalies |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Custom transaction volume · custom log storage and retention · SSO · security and compliance audit · SLA reporting · premier support · Custom |
| Free | — | 300K monthly transactions · 1 GB log data · 5,000 errors · 1 endpoint monitored for anomalies · unlimited users and apps |
The facts
Each one read from Scout APM's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI tooling
- Scout says its MCP server, CLI, and API let AI coding agents access production errors, traces, and performance data.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Anomaly detection
- Scout learns each endpoint's normal patterns and alerts when performance behavior changes, without requiring thresholds to be configured.checked 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.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The site lists Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js agents.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Monitoring data
- Scout combines traces, metrics, logs, error tracking, and alerting in one platform.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Scout provides application performance monitoring and observability tools to help engineering teams identify and fix performance problems.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Query analysis
- Scout detects slow database queries and N+1 patterns and provides query analysis.checked 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.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- Every plan includes human support; paid plans get priority response times and Enterprise includes dedicated premier support.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Scout Monitoring is the product of Zimuth, Inc.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Plan limits
- When a plan's monthly transaction limit is exceeded, Scout continues monitoring but stops recording new transactions in the dashboard.checked 9 Oct 2026
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