New
APM-as-a-Service Platform Designed by Developers for Developers
Quickly Isolates Problem Code in Business-Critical Web Applications.
Fort
Collins, CO, USA (December 7, 2015) -- Scout
Monitoring, creators of highly reliable server and
application monitoring solutions created by developers for
developers, has released the first application performance monitoring
(APM) service for developers deploying apps to Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) solutions. Scout APM represents the next phase in developer
migration to writing software for PaaS, allowing programmers to
design and troubleshoot specialized apps faster than ever before.
"Scout
gives us unprecedented performance insights into our web apps: down
to the slow line-of-code, associated database calls, the developer
that wrote it, and when the code was changed. Putting the pieces
together without Scout would take hours - we're able to do it in
minutes with Scout," says Aaron Scruggs, CTO of AcademicWorks,
the leading provider of scholarship management solutions for
universities, community colleges, and community foundations. "Now,
more of our development team's time is spent delivering great
features, not tracking down performance issues."
Before
the advent of software-as-as-service, developers were responsible for
the full-stack of their application, from the load balancer down to
the database servers. Vendors and hosted services have offloaded many
of those functions, such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (load
balancer) and Relational Database Service (database). As a result,
software engineers worry less about infrastructure plumbing and spend
more time writing custom application code. Although this means more
and better value-added applications, it also means new issues with
increasingly complex custom code that slows performance.
Scout
APM was developed as a hosted solution to instrument web app custom
code versus the full stack infrastructure stack. By providing a
targeted, application-specific APM solution that isolates problems in
custom code, Scout APM addresses the most time-consuming developer
issue - finding and fixing bottlenecks in custom code - while
avoiding areas for which developers are not responsible.
"Anyone
writing software to run on a hosted, platform-as-a-service like
Heroku or Cloud Foundry knows that the only code they need to worry
about runs on the App Server," said Derek Haynes, CEO of Scout.
"Since they aren't responsible for uptime or services beyond the
app code, we developed Scout APM as a surgical tool to fix problems
in custom code."
Where
most APM tools use sampling and make it hard to pinpoint problems,
Scout APM goes beyond simple code metrics assessment. Scout APM
identifies five key elements behind every slow app request: who wrote
it, where the line of code resides, when was it committed and
deployed, which file, and what is the database analysis. Rather than
spending hours to isolate a performance problem, Scout APM can
isolate the problem in minutes, including the programmer best suited
to address it.
Scout
APM also has three key features that make it an excellent tool for
app performance troubleshooting:
1.
Captures every request - Where most APM solutions merely sample slow
requests, Scout APM captures every request to provide better insight
into app performance.
2.
Integrates with Git - Works with Git open source version control to
make it easy to identify who wrote the code, and when.
3.
Provides context - In addition, Scout APM allows you to attach custom
context to slow requests. For example: identify the email address of
the user that triggered the event, the associated database shard, and
the customer's monthly spend.
Finally,
Scout APM has a flexible pricing model for both apps running on PaaS
services and those powered by traditional servers. Customers can
choose to be billed by their request volume (starting at $20/month)
or by the number of hosts their app runs on (starting at $59/host).
About
Scout Monitoring
Since
2009, Scout Monitoring has been providing server and application
monitoring services to developers around the world. Developed by
programmers for programmers, Scout's hosted monitoring tools are
designed to provide a clean, reliable monitoring solution for servers
and applications. The Scout philosophy is that monitoring doesn't
have to painful, and tens of thousands of loyal customers managing
applications for some of the world's most recognizable brands tend to
agree.
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