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Index › Vendors › Scout · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Scout

7Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Scout was named 4 times in Error monitoring, where Sentry led with 82%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business31 of 37

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 44

under the label threshold

Enterprise42 of 45

under the label threshold

In error monitoring · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Scout for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	30 of 44	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Scout yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Scout across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Scout if your stack is primarily Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP, or Elixir” Perplexity Sonar · Error monitoring · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Scout is not suitable for Java, Go, or .NET stacks, or for frontend JavaScript error tracking or mobile crash reporting.” Llama 4 Maverick · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Don't use if your stack is Java/Go/.NET, or you need frontend/mobile crash reporting; it only fits certain stacks.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Scout, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Scout was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Sentry6 of 72Not in the top three

Datadog6 of 70Not in the top three

New Relic5 of 70Not in the top three

AppSignal4 of 70Not in the top three

Rollbar4 of 70Not in the top three

Bugsnag3 of 70Not in the top three

Honeybadger3 of 70Not in the top three

Dynatrace2 of 70Not in the top three

GlitchTip2 of 70Not in the top three

Highlight.io2 of 70Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Scout. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 7 of the 7 answers that named Scout and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

scoutapm.comYour site6

getlogwise.com4

inventivehq.com4

observeone.com3

raygun.com3

rollbar.com3

vibereference.com3

apistatuscheck.com2

flatlogic.com2

guideflow.com2

Twenty-six of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Scout came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

scoutapm.com/blog/best-error-monitoring-tools6

getlogwise.com/blog/best-error-monitoring-tools-20254

inventivehq.com/blog/best-error-tracking-tools-sentry-alternatives4

observeone.com/best/error-monitoring-tools3

raygun.com/blog/best-error-monitoring-tools3

rollbar.com/blog/best-error-monitoring-tools3

apistatuscheck.com/blog/best-error-tracking-tools-20262

flatlogic.com/blog/10-best-error-monitoring-and-error-tracking-tools2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Scout

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Scout; a claim can dispute any of them.

New Relic / Scout 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Scout's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Scout, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at scoutapm.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.