Laritor
Yes
Laritor vs Scout APM
A Scout APM alternative
for your whole Laravel app.
Laritor tracks exceptions, detects issues, and monitors Laravel performance. Follow requests, queues, queries, and user sessions in one place. Build your own dashboards, inspect server resources, and debug with in-app AI or your coding agent through MCP.
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Laravel native
Designed primarily for Laravel. All tools compared here support Laravel.
Scout APM
No
Why choose Laritor over Scout APM?
Laravel monitoring
built around your everyday work.
Scout focuses on application performance, traces, and error investigation across several languages. Laritor brings Laravel performance together with logs, session journeys, feature flags, custom dashboards, health checks, and scheduled PDF reports.
More visibility. More control.
- Unlimited custom dashboards with 85+ widgets.
- Exception tracker issue tracker, or full observability recording.
- Feature flag insights and custom health checks.
- Session journeys across recorded Laravel requests.
- Server CPU, memory, and disk metrics with optional collection.
- Laravel logs, mail and notification views, and opt-in command output.
- Custom event views and daily or weekly PDF reports.
- Your choice of provider for in-app AI, plus exception context through MCP.
Specific team requirements.
- You monitor a mix of languages and frameworks.
- You want adaptive endpoint and job anomaly detection.
- You want performance metrics and trace queries through MCP.
- You need GitHub attribution for slow code paths or Rails allocation insights.
The full feature comparison
Laritor vs Scout APM.
See what you get.
Compare 36 capabilities. See where Laritor gives you more, where Scout APM has an advantage, and what both tools offer.
“Not listed” means a dedicated feature was not found in the public documentation reviewed. Custom instrumentation or an integration may offer another way to meet that need. Both tools have Laravel performance monitoring, errors, custom instrumentation, and MCP. Scout’s agent features vary by language; native PHP log collection is listed as on the roadmap.
Where Laritor shines
Recording modes, feature flag insights, Laravel session journeys, payload context, and PDF reports.
| Capability | Laritor | Scout APM |
|---|---|---|
| Three ready-to-use recording modes | Record what matters Exceptions only, issues only, or full observability, with related events in each retained execution. | APM monitoring, ignored endpoints/jobs, and error filters. The same three named retention modes are not listed. |
| One billable event allowance | One event allowance 20M billable events from $20/month, shared across recorded event types. | Transaction tiers with separate error capacity and log packages. One transaction is a traced execution, rather than each event inside it. |
| Unlimited customizable dashboards | 85+ widgets Unlimited custom dashboards with 85+ Laravel widgets, included at $20/month. | Built-in app, endpoint, job, query, and external-service views. An equivalent custom widget dashboard builder is not listed. |
| Automatic Pennant performance insights | Understand feature rollouts Flag evaluations, activation rates, execution durations, and related errors. | Custom context can hold flag states. Automatic Pennant instrumentation and dedicated flag analytics are not listed. |
| Server-side session request journeys | Follow a user’s journey Follow recorded Laravel requests in a session, with related users and custom events. | Trace Explorer filters by user IDs or other custom context. A dedicated Laravel session journey resource is not listed. |
| Laravel session data capture | Inspect session state Optionally inspect Laravel session values with field-level collection controls. | Custom context can include your own attributes. Automatic Laravel session-value capture is not listed. |
| Native Laravel application logs | Laravel logs included Search Laravel logs and custom log entries alongside recorded execution activity. | Log Management supports Ruby, Python, Elixir, and Node.js. Native PHP log support is listed as on the roadmap. |
| Mail and notification resources | Inspect delivery problems Inspect recorded sends, failures, related users, and execution activity in dedicated views. | The PHP instrumented-library list covers requests, queues, views, and service calls. Dedicated Laravel mail and notification resources are not listed. |
| Host CPU, memory, and disk views | Code and server resources Optional scheduled host metric collection, charts, and server resources. | Application resource metrics and code-level performance views. An equivalent host disk-usage and server-inventory resource is not listed. |
| Custom health checks inside Laravel | Check your dependencies Built-in and custom dependency checks with status history and failure alerts. | Performance and anomaly monitoring. An equivalent custom in-app PHP dependency-check resource is not listed. |
| Database schema explorer | Schema-aware debugging Browse tables, columns, indexes, and relationships with AI assistance. | SQL timing, query analysis, and N+1 detection. A database schema explorer is not listed. |
| Custom daily and weekly PDF reports | Reports without logging in Choose performance metrics and email scheduled PDF snapshots to your team. | Performance insights and notification workflows. Custom scheduled PDF performance reports are not listed. |
| Bot and suspicious request views | Understand automated traffic Dedicated traffic views and filters with customizable detection. | Endpoint metrics and custom trace filters. Dedicated Laravel bot and suspicious-request views are not listed. |
| Command and scheduled task output | Read what the command printed Opt-in console output alongside execution details and recorded events. | Background transactions can instrument commands and cron work. Automatic stdout capture is not listed. |
| Outbound API body investigation | Inspect failing API calls Optional outgoing request/response bodies, headers, and status with redaction. | External HTTP timing and trace context. Automatic request/response body-content capture is not listed. |
| Request and response body capture | Inspect request data Optional headers and bodies on retained Laravel requests, including successful executions. | Trace URLs and custom attributes are supported. Automatic Laravel request and response body capture is not listed. |
| In-app AI recommendations and provider choice | Debug inside Laritor 50 included AI prompts per account each month, or connect your preferred provider. | AI agents investigate Scout data through MCP, CLI, and API. An equivalent in-app exception recommendation/provider workflow is not listed. |
| No separate ingestion binary | Composer client ingestion Laravel Composer client sends recorded events directly. | The PHP package uses a Core Agent binary. Download, configuration, and launch are automatic by default. |
Where Scout APM shines
Cross-platform APM, adaptive anomalies, performance queries through MCP, and Git attribution for slow code.
| Capability | Laritor | Scout APM |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring across frameworks and languages | Monitoring built around your Laravel backend. | APM agents across Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js frameworks. |
| Adaptive endpoint anomaly detection | Configurable issue rules, filters, performance views, and alerts. | Per-endpoint and job baselines with daily/weekly seasonality and sensitivity previews. Available for PHP too. |
| Performance metrics through MCP | Read-only exception details and recorded execution context. | Read-only tools for app/endpoint/job metrics, traces, queries, external services, and anomalies. |
| Git attribution for slow code paths | Recorded events, source context, and AI-assisted investigation. | GitHub-connected slow-call backtraces show source code, author, commit, and deployment context. |
| Rails object-allocation and memory-bloat analysis | Laravel execution events and optional host resource metrics. | Rails-specific allocation and memory-bloat insights. These should not be assumed to be PHP profiler features. |
Where there’s a tie
Both tools track Laravel errors and performance, with execution timelines, custom context, alerts, and MCP.
| Capability | Laritor | Scout APM |
|---|---|---|
| Laravel exception tracking | Grouped exceptions, full stack traces, file/line, and occurrence history. | Grouped PHP errors with stack traces, context, and related transaction details. |
| Request and endpoint performance | Duration metrics, failure rates, status codes, and recorded execution details. | App/endpoint metrics, response-time percentiles, throughput, and traces. |
| Job performance monitoring | Queue job failures, execution timing, throughput, and related events. | Laravel queue instrumentation and background-job execution metrics. |
| Slow SQL and N+1 investigation | Inspect slow, duplicated, and repeated queries in retained execution context. | Query timing, sanitized SQL, N+1 annotations, and source backtraces. |
| External HTTP timing | Inspect recorded outbound calls with the request or job that triggered them. | HTTP instrumentation and external-service performance views. Some PHP instruments use the optional native extension. |
| Cache and Redis instrumentation | Recorded cache operations and Redis activity with execution context. | Predis, PhpRedis, and Memcached timing. Some instruments require the native PHP extension. |
| Execution timelines | Recorded events show activity in order during a retained execution. | Trace timeline and summary views show timing and the order of instrumented calls. |
| Custom instrumentation | Add named custom events and metadata to explain business workflows. | Instrument custom transactions and timed code blocks, then add custom attributes. |
| User IDs and custom context | Identify authenticated users and attach additional user attributes. | Attach user IDs, account plans, and other JSON-serializable context to transactions and errors. |
| Sensitive data controls | Client-side collection settings and redaction before ingestion. | Sanitized SQL, URL parameter controls, ignored exceptions, and filtered error parameters. |
| Alerts and team integrations | Alerts delivered through your configured integrations. | Error and performance alerts via email, Slack, webhooks, and other configured channels. |
| Read-only MCP access for AI agents | OAuth-connected access to exception details and recorded context. | OAuth-connected access to performance and error data; hosted MCP tools are read-only. |
| Unlimited applications and users | Unlimited apps and users at $20/month. | Unlimited applications and users on listed transaction plans, with no per-seat or per-host charge. |
Major difference
More than transaction timing. More of your Laravel app.
Laritor helps you understand what happened inside a Laravel execution and across the wider application. Go from performance numbers to recorded API content, queue behavior, user journeys, and business events.
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More context for everyday debugging
Inspect configured API payloads and responses, command output, logs, and custom business events alongside the recorded execution. Scout’s transaction and query analysis focuses primarily on tracing performance bottlenecks.
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Deeper Laravel-specific views
Queue wait and throughput, backend sessions, Pennant performance, and application health checks expand Laritor’s monitoring coverage. Equivalent dedicated Laravel resources are not listed in the reviewed Scout documentation.
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No Core Agent binary to deploy
Laritor sends events through its Composer client. Scout’s PHP package downloads and manages a separate Core Agent binary automatically, with an optional native extension needed for some instruments.
Why choose Laritor over Scout APM?
See more of your Laravel app.
Fix problems with better context.
Follow users, inspect server resources, review feature flags, and build the views your team needs, alongside your exception and performance monitoring.
One allowance for the events you record
Compare your usage All Laritor features. $20/month.
20M billable events, unlimited apps and users, and 30-day retention. Choose exceptions, detected issues, or all activity without a separate error or log quota.
Scout bills traced executions as transactions, with separate error capacity. The calculator compares one retained request/job workload and estimates the Laritor billable events within it.
Cost calculator
Compare your monthly monitoring costs.
Use one monthly request and job count for both tools. Scout counts each traced execution as a transaction. Laritor counts the billable events recorded within it.
Laritor / month$20.00USD · Unlimited apps and users · 30-day retention
20,000,000 billable events
Scout APM / month$58.00Small · USD · Monthly billing
APM $39.00 + error capacity $19.00
1,200,000 transactions and 55,000 errors included
The smallest listed paid transaction tier that fits is selected, with additional error blocks as needed. No free plan is used.
Estimates use monthly USD prices before tax, after any trial, for the same retained workload. Average events are an assumption; actual collection and event sizes change billable counts. Laritor adds $0.20 per started 100K above 20M; estimates above $500/month require a quote. Scout volumes above its listed 9M transaction tier show a quote prompt. This estimates PHP APM and errors: log packages, the Production Ready bundle, annual discounts, and additional anomaly monitors are excluded. Scout’s native PHP log collection is listed as on the roadmap; its other supported agents have log management.
Infrastructure and dependencies
Inspect the resources and services your Laravel application needs to run.
Server metrics
See whether the bottleneck is code or server resources.
Compare application performance with recorded CPU, memory, and disk usage. Check whether a slow execution coincides with server pressure or a disk running out of space.
Laritor collects host metrics through an optional scheduled command. Scout has application resource metrics and performance views; an equivalent host disk-usage and server-inventory resource is not listed. These are different levels of resource investigation.
In-app health checks
Check the dependencies your app relies on.
Run built-in checks or write a PHP check for a database, service, or dependency. Review its history and receive failure alerts alongside your Laravel monitoring.
Scout detects performance anomalies in requests and jobs. An equivalent custom dependency-check resource is not listed in the reviewed platform documentation. Laritor lets you test a dependency directly from your app.
More context when debugging
Inspect API bodies, printed output, and the requests behind a customer’s problem.
API call investigation
Find why your API calls are failing.
Optionally capture outgoing request and response bodies, headers, and status. Review what your app sent and what the service returned alongside the exception, query, or job that triggered the call.
Scout instruments external call timing and supports custom context. Automatic API body-content capture is not listed in its PHP features. Use Laritor’s collection and redaction settings to record the fields that help you investigate.
Command output
Read the output behind a failed command.
Enable console output capture for an import, scheduled report, or another Artisan task. Read what it printed beside the recorded queries, logs, exceptions, and other events.
Scout can instrument custom background transactions, including cron work. Console stdout capture is not listed in its PHP features. Laritor makes that printed output part of your investigation when you choose to collect it.
Laravel session journeys
Follow the requests behind a customer’s problem.
Open a session to inspect the Laravel requests recorded during that visit. Review the user and related events, then add custom events to explain checkout, a subscription change, or another business step.
Scout’s Trace Explorer filters transactions by user ID and other custom attributes. Laritor also gives you a dedicated session journey resource, with optional Laravel session data and the recorded requests from that visit.
Debug with your AI agent
Give your agent the context
behind an exception.
Laritor MCP lets your agent retrieve exception details and the recorded execution timeline. It can inspect those events alongside your code to investigate the cause and work on a fix. In-app AI recommendations are available too.
Both products support MCP. Laritor connects your agent to the recorded exception context and lets you choose your provider for in-app recommendations. Choose your in-app AI provider ↗
Read the Laritor MCP guide
Views built around your Laravel app
Choose your dashboards and explore the activity that matters to your team.
Customizable dashboards
Build dashboards tailored to your team.
Choose from 85+ widgets and arrange your own views of exceptions, queues, customers, server resources, and application performance. Laritor includes unlimited custom dashboards at its entry price.
Scout has built-in app, endpoint, background-job, query, and external-service views. An equivalent custom widget dashboard builder is not listed in its reviewed metrics documentation.
Feature flag insights
Understand how your feature flags affect your application.
Laritor automatically tracks Laravel Pennant evaluations. Inspect activation rates, execution durations, and related errors to understand usage and investigate the effect of a rollout.
Scout supports custom context, so you can attach a feature flag state to a trace. Automatic Pennant instrumentation and a dedicated flag-performance view are not listed in its PHP features.
Database schema explorer
Inspect the schema behind a query problem.
Browse tables, columns, indexes, and relationships while investigating your app. Use the schema alongside recorded queries and AI guidance to understand how a database operation fits your application.
Scout has query analysis, N+1 detection, and code backtraces for slow operations. A database schema explorer is not listed in its reviewed metrics documentation.
Bot and suspicious traffic
Understand the traffic using your server resources.
Review automated and suspicious Laravel requests in dedicated views. Compare routes, status codes, timing, and recorded events, then adjust detection and recording filters for your app.
Scout’s endpoint metrics and Trace Explorer help you investigate slow traffic. Laritor adds dedicated bot and suspicious-request views as a starting point for this Laravel investigation.
Performance in context
See slow requests, errors,
and bot traffic together.
Review request volume, status codes, duration percentiles, and where time is spent. Open a retained request to inspect its queries, logs, API calls, and other recorded events. Explore request monitoring
Updates without opening a dashboard
Keep your team informed with a regular application snapshot.
Scheduled PDF reports
Receive the metrics you care about each day or week.
Choose the performance metrics and a daily or weekly delivery schedule. Receive a PDF snapshot by email and share it with teammates who need an update without logging into Laritor.
Scout offers performance insights and notifications. Custom scheduled PDF performance reports are not listed in its reviewed platform documentation. Laritor lets you choose the snapshot and delivery schedule.
Evaluate Laritor in your app
Try it before you switch.
Use a representative app or environment to compare the details you receive, recording volume, and debugging workflow.
Install and configure the client
Create a Laritor account, install the Composer package, add your ingest endpoint and key, and run the sync command.
Complete installation stepscomposer require binarybuilds/laritor-clientChoose what to record
Start with exception tracker, issue tracker, or full observability. Register the generated filter, then review the data and privacy settings for your app.
Configure recording filtersCompare a real investigation
Inspect a known exception or slow execution, test alert delivery, and compare measured overhead and billable event usage. If you run both tools, include their combined collection work in your evaluation.
Explore exception investigationSet up your team’s workflow
Create your dashboards, choose alert channels, schedule reports, and connect AI. Keep access to your existing Scout APM history while Laritor builds a new record of your application’s activity. There is no documented automatic history import.
Explore Laritor guides
Questions before switching
Scout APM alternative FAQs.
What is Laritor, and why use it as a Scout APM alternative for Laravel?
Laritor is an exception tracker, issue tracker, and performance monitoring tool built for Laravel. It brings requests, jobs, queries, Laravel logs, session journeys, feature flags, custom dashboards, and scheduled PDF reports together. Choose what to record and investigate retained executions with in-app recommendations or your AI coding agent through MCP.
Does Scout APM support Laravel?
Yes. Scout has a Laravel Composer package and PHP instrumentation for middleware, controllers, queries, queues, and views. It also supports PHP exception reporting, custom context, and MCP. Its PHP package manages a Core Agent binary automatically, and some instruments require the optional native PHP extension.
Can I use Laritor just for Laravel exception tracking?
Yes. Exceptions-only mode retains an execution when an exception happens, including related recorded events. issue tracker mode retains detected failures or slow executions. Full observability retains activity allowed by your filters. Scout’s PHP error reporting is integrated with its base APM agent; its docs require monitoring to be enabled.
How does Laritor pricing compare with Scout APM?
Laritor starts at $20/month with 20M billable events and unlimited apps and users. Scout’s listed paid monthly transaction tiers are Startup at $19 for 600K, Small at $39 for 1.2M, Medium at $99 for 3M, and Large at $299 for 9M. Each includes 5K errors, with additional 50K error blocks at $19/month. The calculator uses the same request/job workload and estimates Laritor’s billable events within it.
Why are Scout transactions different from Laritor events?
Scout counts one traced web request or background job as one transaction. Laritor counts recorded billable events, such as the execution and its queries, logs, API calls, and other activity, including its 2 KB billing increments. The calculator uses one shared request/job count and your average Laritor billable events per execution. Actual filtering, collection, and event sizes affect both tools’ usage.
Which Scout plans and extras does the calculator include?
It selects the smallest listed paid transaction tier that fits and adds error capacity in 50K blocks above the included 5K. It excludes the free plan, annual discounts, log packages, extra anomaly monitors, and the Production Ready bundle. That bundle is listed separately at $64/month with 1.2M transactions, 50K errors, 30 GB logs, and 20 anomaly monitors. The calculator estimates PHP APM and errors, rather than a complete multi-language account.
When does the calculator show “Ask for a quote”?
Laritor estimates above $500/month show “Ask for a quote”; exactly $500 stays numeric. Scout workloads above the largest listed 9M monthly transaction tier also show a quote prompt. The estimate does not assume an unpublished Scout per-transaction overage rate.
Do both Laritor and Scout APM support MCP and AI coding agents?
Yes. Both provide read-only MCP access. Laritor exposes exception details and recorded execution context; Scout also exposes performance metrics, traces, queries, external-service metrics, and anomaly data. Laritor includes 50 in-app AI prompts per account each month and lets you connect your preferred in-app AI provider.
Does Scout Log Management support PHP and Laravel logs?
Scout’s current Log Management page lists Ruby, Python, Elixir, and Node.js support and says PHP support is on the roadmap. Laritor records Laravel logs and custom log entries with related execution context. Scout still supports PHP APM and error monitoring; this is a distinction in native log collection.
Can I protect sensitive data and PII in Laritor?
Yes. Choose which fields to collect and redact sensitive values before ingestion. Apply your data policy to bodies, headers, session values, user attributes, and custom events. Scout also sanitizes SQL and offers URI controls and filtered error parameters.
Can I run Scout APM and Laritor in parallel?
Yes. Keep Scout while installing Laritor in the same Laravel app. Use representative requests and jobs to compare context, alerts, usage, and combined overhead. Review each client’s instrumentation and data controls before choosing your long-term setup.
Will my existing Scout APM history transfer to Laritor?
Laritor records new activity after installation and configuration. There is no documented automatic import of Scout history. Keep access to the traces and errors you need while Laritor builds a new record, then compare the investigations and reports your team uses.
About this comparison
Sources and comparison notes.
Published by Laritor, independently of Scout. Scout’s Laravel/PHP agents, traces, errors, supported logging agents, anomaly detection, MCP, and public transaction pricing were reviewed on . The table compares dedicated product features; the detailed explanations cover relevant recording controls and context options.
“Not listed” is a documentation finding, not a claim that a capability is impossible to implement. Dedicated product views are compared separately from custom events and context. Prices use monthly USD billing before tax. The calculator compares the same retained request/job workload, estimates Laritor billable events per execution, and selects a listed paid Scout transaction tier with extra error blocks as needed. It excludes free plans, annual discounts, log packages, additional anomaly monitors, and the Production Ready bundle. No unpublished transaction overage is assumed.
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