Scout Launches New Relic Alternative

Interesting - we're using New Relic and reasonably happy, but might give this a try. It'd be nice to get more concrete comparisons on features compared to them - New Relic is a pretty huge product and we use it for things like alerting PagerDuty based on error rates and response times as well as performance, and has lots of powerful reports etc.

Ironically, one of the biggest problems with New Relic is that their interface is bloated and performs poorly :)

I've had an eye on this space for some time. Scout was pretty high on my list, but didn't offer a one-to-one comparison NewRelic. This makes the market more interesting.

It's a competitive $59/server/month. Nice.

But:

> We currently support Ruby 1.8.7+ and Ruby on Rails. We have a waiting list for other languages and frameworks.

:/

>> Per-Request Pricing is also available. Estimate your bill >> REQUESTS PER MINUTE: 2 >> An average of 2 req/min is $20.00 per-month.

That I see as one "big" innovation over newrelic. Why do you have to pay when servers are idle?

I'm using the server monitoring with StatsD integration pretty heavily and am pretty happy with it so far. I'm guessing the app monitoring is probably pretty well done based on how nicely the server monitoring works.

Do you support real-user-monitoring (RUM) and app monitoring? What are your plans for Java, PHP, Python support?

The "Per-Request Pricing" is interesting, but it doesn't make sense for > 47 req/min.

I hate this color scheme