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    <title>The Napkin ~ A Blog By Highgroove Studios comments on Scout's Grand Opening</title>
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      <title>"Scout's Grand Opening" by derek</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://scoutapp.com"&gt;Scout, our server monitoring and application&lt;/a&gt;, is now available for public consumption. 
&lt;div style="float:right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://scoutapp.com/images/logo.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Scout is for the 95% of us that either gave up on installing &amp;#38; maintaining monitoring applications or used the old fashion monitoring method &amp;#8211; an email from a customer when your web application is down. I&amp;#8217;m not calling you out, it&amp;#8217;s simply that monitoring used to be more painful than &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; monitoring. We think Scout changes that in a beautiful way.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Scout makes it easy to bring all of your data together &amp;#8211; from the monitoring standbys (url monitoring, server load, memory usage, etc) to modern day analytics (the number of user accounts on your web application, unique visitors, inbound links, etc). It&amp;#8217;s all done through an easy plugin system that you configure through our web interface &amp;#8211; you never have to login to each of your servers and install or edit monitoring scripts. You&amp;#8217;re not limited to the plugins we built &amp;#8211; &lt;a href="http://scoutapp.com/plugin_urls/static/creating_a_plugin"&gt;you can roll your own with a couple of elegant lines of Ruby code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:08:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>&lt;a href="/articles/2008/04/15/scouts-grand-opening"&gt;Scout's Grand Opening&lt;/a&gt;</guid>
      <link>&lt;a href="/articles/2008/04/15/scouts-grand-opening"&gt;Scout's Grand Opening&lt;/a&gt;</link>
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