Odds are you don't have the bandwidth to keep an eye on your servers all day and night. That's where a great server monitoring solution like Scout comes into play. Now with the Zapier Scout integration, you can easily setup your Scout alerts to get piped to any application on Zapier.

I’m not a hardware guy but keeping an eye on everything is essential. Scout is a great tool for visualizing and alerting on our global infrastructure of servers, load balancers, databases, etc.

...I’ve used Nagios / Icinga heavily in the past. They have become pretty much the industry standard. What ScoutApp has done is taken out all the leg work of setting up triggers, alerts, plugins, and scripts and put it into a very simple and easy interface.

Bigger isn’t necessarily better, he (Derek Haynes) said. Scout is akin to a microbrewery that provides quality over quantity.

Derek Haynes and Andre Lewis of Scout talk about meeting and getting to know each other before working together, coworking spaces, and distributed teams unique to big companies versus small companies.

We wanted to grab some of the graphics that Scout’s in-app page offers to users to provide us with visual feedback on historical norms for each metric without leaving the chat room. A call to Scout support got graphics ported into the API in less than a day, and we were off and running.

Pusher powers Scout's real-time charts, providing live metrics from any number of your servers. We’ve chatted with founder Andre Lewis, who told us a bit more about how Scout works.

Fast forward to today, and there are myriad of 3rd party SaSS products that can plug right into your pipeline and spit out valuable / fancy charts that we all love. My favorite is Scout.

At Rails Machine, we provide 24×7 monitoring as part of our Managed Hosting, and Scout plays a huge part of that. Today, I’ll be talking about what we monitor with Scout, and our philosophy of monitoring.

The new integration allows you to quickly hook up your Scout account to your PagerDuty account via an API-based integration. Then, you can start receiving phone, SMS and email notifications for all important server, database and application issues, as monitored by Scout.

Just because I’m hosting my own machines doesnt mean I cant use New Relic, or in my case Scout.

...if they don’t have the plugin you need, it is incredibly easy to create one using their API. We’ve created several, including a few now included in the official Scout plugin directory (RabbitMQ, CouchDB, and Elasticsearch).

I have been using Scout for the last couple of weeks, and it is wonderful.

The power of Scout stems from its ability to be extended by writing Ruby plugins such as those available for monitoring Ruby on Rails, Phusion Passenger, Nginx, MySQL and others.