Scout

Alerts
Instant Notifications

You'll know instantly when things are going wrong on your servers and web applications.

Graphs
Flexible Graphing

Compare any sets of data - from unique visitors to the load on the server.
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Plugins
Create Plugins

Have it your way - you can write your own plugins you'd like Scout to run.
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Quick Install
Quick Install

Install the client in minutes.
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How can you use Scout?

High traffic alerts
View internal data, server statistics, and analytics in one place
Compare web traffic vs. server load
Memory leak alerts
Ensure a website is responding
Restart dead processes
Monitor disk space usage
Compare web request times across multiple web apps and servers
Alerts on new inbound links
Build a quick dashboard

Why Scout?

Say goodbye to complicated scripts, resource-intensive monitoring tools, and all-or-nothing solutions. With Scout, you add functionality you need with a click of the button (and only what you need).

Who is Scout for?

Web developers monitoring applications, System Administrators managing several servers, Analysts looking to combine multiple data sources and more.

The Ultimate In Flexibility

Pick-and-choose the plugins you want from our directory. Each server can be different. Modify existing plugins or create your own.

Real-Time Visualization

There's no delay - as soon as your data is in Scout, you'll see it on a graph.

Safe & Secure

Everything is protected behind SSL security. Scout never logs in to your servers. Your data and your servers stay protected.

Centralize Your Data

Scout makes it easy to put all your data in one place - internal data like user signups, analytics like unique visitors, and server information like memory usage. There's no better way to instantly view trends and correlations.

What are people saying about Scout?

  • "Scout is the first server monitoring tool to find the right balance of simplicity and flexibility."
    - Hampton Catlin, Unspace
  • "Scout brilliantly eliminates the hassle of manually installing and updating monitoring scripts on each of our servers."
    - Nick Pearson, Banyan Theory
  • "I wrote a Scout plugin in about ten minutes - it's as simple as writing Ruby. And since I'm in love with Ruby, naturally, Scout is my new favorite tool for keeping an eye on my servers."
    - Tim Morgan, Tulsa Ruby User Group
  • "Support is excellent: swift, friendly, and helpful."
    - Andrew Stewart, AirBlade Software
  • "Server performance problems are notoriously hard to anticipate or reproduce. Scout's long memory and clean graphs make it an awesome tool for collecting and analyzing performance metrics of all kinds."
    - Lance Ivy, UserVoice

Featured Plugins View all 19 plugins in our directory

  • Process Usage
    Monitors the memory usage of a process, generating an alert if it exceeds a specified threshold.
  • URL Monitoring
    Monitors the availability of a URL, sending an alert if the URL is not reachable.
  • Ruby on Rails Request Monitoring
    Monitors ALL requests to a Ruby on Rails web application, alerting when slow web requests occur. Reports the total number of requests, the number of slow requests, and the average execution time.
  • Mongrel Cluster Monitor
    Monitors mongrel clusters, reports uptime, and attempts restarts of down mongrels.

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