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Scout APM vs Zipkin

A side-by-side look at Scout APM and Zipkin. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Scout APM

Scout APM

Development

Scout APM is an application performance monitoring tool that provides deep visibility into Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and Node.js applications. It helps developers rapidly pinpoint and fix performance issues via its easy-to-use UI, allowing teams to optimize app response time and throughput.

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Zipkin

Zipkin

Development

Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system. It is used to gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. Zipkin helps gather timing data related to inter-service calls and provides tools to visualize this data.

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