blackfire.io vs. Scout APM

blackfire.io

Scout APM

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
blackfire.io	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Blackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow. The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web…	N/A
Scout APM	Score 10.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Scout APM is offered to enable software developers to spend their time building products customers love by minimizing the effort required to identify and resolve performance issues. As a provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, Scout states that their developer-centric approach pinpoints issues such as memory bloat, N+1 queries and other abnormalities, enabling customers to quickly resolve performance issues.	$129 per month

Pricing

blackfire.io

Scout APM

Editions & Modules

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Small: $129.00
per month
Medium: $199.00
per month
Large: $399.00
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
blackfire.io	Scout APM
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Custom and Enterprise plans are available.

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Features

blackfire.io

Scout APM

Application Performance Management

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
	blackfire.io - Ratings	Scout APM 9.0 1 Ratings 17% above category average
Application monitoring	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Database monitoring	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Application performance management console	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	blackfire.io	Scout APM
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Enterprises	GitLab Score 8.9 out of 10	ManageEngine Site24x7 Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	blackfire.io	Scout APM
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	blackfire.io	Scout APM
Likelihood to Recommend	Blackfire Blackfire.io is super helpful in allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. Blackfire.io provides actionable insights to improve code proactively by integration with the development software. Also tracks the live production environment and is able to highlight any loading issues or unusual bounce rates. Blackfire.io also monitors HTTP requests and SQL queries which again help improve efficiency for developers and reduce development time. Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Scout APM To me, it's the best APM out there for a Rails application. It is really easy to set up, configure and start debugging any kind of bad-performing endpoint. We have solved issues going from High Response Time to Memory Leaks/Bloats. All of this can be achieved even if you are hosting your app in a PaaS like Heroku. (Where sometimes is difficult to install an agent like in other vendors). Incentivized MG Mixer Gutierrez Group Technical Lead Read full review
Pros	Blackfire Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Scout APM Rails instrumentation Segmentation by controllers and sometimes methods Detecting low performing endpoints Incentivized MG Mixer Gutierrez Group Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	Blackfire They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles Customer service needs a lot of improvement The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Scout APM Errors (is a new functionality but I didn't get well how it can replace rollbar for example). Usage measuring: In some cases is easy to get "disabled" due to a peak of bad requests. Editing app's names Incentivized MG Mixer Gutierrez Group Technical Lead Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Blackfire blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a level of reporting that were did not find any competing products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Scout APM We have preferred Scout APM over Datadog due to: - Easy to configure and install on Heroku Platform (Datadog's agent can give some trouble when installing it on Heroku's Dynos) - Easy to monitor normal behavior and be actionable on endpoints who are out of normal - It has an easier pricing which facilitates to make predictions on budget Incentivized MG Mixer Gutierrez Group Technical Lead Read full review
Return on Investment	Blackfire Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers 2x decrease in load time for the website 100% performance validation before production release Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Scout APM Speed to solve incidents Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq) Incentivized MG Mixer Gutierrez Group Technical Lead Read full review
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