ServiceNow Cloud Observability (formerly LightStep) vs. Scout Monitoring

Lightstep’s observability platform is the easiest way for developers and SREs to monitor health and respond to changes in cloud-native applications. Powered by cutting-edge distributed tracing and a groundbreaking metrics database, and built by the team that launched observability at Google, Lightstep’s Change Intelligence provides actionable insights to help teams answer the question “What caused that change? Lightstep empowers reliability and observability managers to minimize the impact of outages, improve software performance, and build org-wide standards to drive adoption and automation.

Scout Monitoring is application performance monitoring that streamlines troubleshooting by helping developers find and fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, a developer-centric UI, and tracing that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, Scout helps teams spend less time debugging and more time building great products. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve issues like memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and related performance problems using lightweight instrumentation with minimal overhead.