Elastic Observability vs. Scout APM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Observability
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere in an IT environment. It's free and open to start, and adds the Logs, Metrics, APM (formerly Opbeat), and Uptime modules to the Elastic (ELK) Stack.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
Elastic ObservabilityScout 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
Elastic ObservabilityScout APM
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Custom and Enterprise plans are available.
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Community Pulse
Elastic ObservabilityScout APM
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Features
Elastic ObservabilityScout APM
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Observability
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Ratings
Scout APM
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Elastic ObservabilityScout APM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Elastic ObservabilityScout APM
Likelihood to Recommend
Elastic
We can use this Elastic Observability in our business problems such as Creating internal/operational efficiencies issues, customer relations/service, and business process outcomes issues. This product has a lot of features for the above problems. But this product may be having some issues when charting purposes. But it can adjust for that purpose.
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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).
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Pros
Elastic
  • Open source code base
  • Community support
  • Is fast in processing
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Scout APM
  • Rails instrumentation
  • Segmentation by controllers and sometimes methods
  • Detecting low performing endpoints
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Cons
Elastic
  • Difficult to setup/maintain
  • Search pattern bar could be more user-friendly
  • Premium subscription features are very expensive
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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
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Alternatives Considered
Elastic
Splunk is a very good product but the licensing costs are high; we utilise the best of both worlds by using both products for slightly different purposes. We put the voluminous data with simple use cases in Elastic where it doesn't cost too much and can be searched quickly while putting the less voluminous data with more complex use cases in Splunk so we can take advantage of Splunk's very comprehensive but often much slower SPL search query language
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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
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Return on Investment
Elastic
  • Cost management.
  • Good customer increment.
  • Time management.
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Scout APM
  • Speed to solve incidents
  • Easy to monitor new endpoints or deployments
  • Easy to monitor background jobs (like sidekiq)
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ScreenShots

Scout APM Screenshots

Screenshot of Scout DashboardScreenshot of Backtrace viewScreenshot of Database Add-onScreenshot of N+1 InsightsScreenshot of Memory InsightsScreenshot of Slow Query Insights