Scout APM

Scout APM is an Application Performance Monitoring tool that can be used to monitor Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Elixir environments on Render.

Getting Started

Sign up for a Scout account and create a new application using the dashboard.

Configuring Your Environment

After creating your account follow the instructions for your stack below and install Scout’s library in your application.

• Scout for Ruby
• Scout for Elixir
• Scout for Python
• Scout for NodeJS
• Scout for PHP

Once installed, you can configure Scout using environment variables.

Add the SCOUT_KEY and SCOUT_MONITOR environment variables in Render’s dashboard to configure Scout for your service. You can also add these variables to an environment group and link the group with all the services you want to monitor with Scout.

• Find the value for SCOUT_KEY from your organization dashboard or from the configuration file provided by Scout.
• Set SCOUT_MONITOR to true.

We recommend using environment variables to integrate Scout with Render. However, you can also use a config file instead by following Scout’s instructions to add the file to your code.

Monitoring Your Application With Scout

Deploy your Render application after making the changes above. You should start seeing application performance data in your Scout dashboard.

See Scout’s library specific documentation for advanced usage and troubleshooting.