Tideways
Application performance monitoring (APM) tools
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What is Tideways
Tideways is an application performance monitoring (APM) product focused on PHP applications. It provides transaction tracing and profiling to help engineering teams identify slow requests, bottlenecks, and error conditions in production and staging environments. The product is commonly used by PHP teams running web applications and APIs that need code-level performance visibility with low operational overhead.
PHP-focused tracing and profiling
Tideways is purpose-built for PHP, with instrumentation designed around common PHP runtimes and frameworks. It captures request/transaction traces and profiling data that help pinpoint slow functions, database calls, and external service latency. This focus can reduce setup complexity compared with broader observability platforms when the primary need is PHP APM.
Actionable performance diagnostics
The product emphasizes code-level diagnostics such as transaction breakdowns and performance hotspots. This supports workflows like regression detection after deployments and targeted optimization of slow endpoints. For teams that primarily need APM rather than full-stack observability, the feature set aligns well with performance troubleshooting.
Production-oriented monitoring use cases
Tideways is designed for monitoring live applications where performance issues impact users and infrastructure cost. It supports continuous visibility into latency patterns and problematic transactions over time. This makes it suitable for teams that want ongoing APM signals rather than one-off profiling runs.
Narrower than full observability
Tideways is primarily an APM solution for PHP rather than a broad, unified observability suite. Organizations that need deep coverage across logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, and non-PHP services may require additional tools. This can increase toolchain complexity in heterogeneous environments.
Best fit limited to PHP
Teams with significant workloads in other languages may find Tideways less applicable outside their PHP services. Cross-service tracing and consistent instrumentation across polyglot microservices can be harder if different APM tools are used per language. This can reduce end-to-end visibility for distributed systems.
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Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Team | €29 per month (monthly); 10% off if billed annually | Up to 250K monthly requests; 1 profiling trace/minute; max 500 spans/trace; 100 trace triggers; 5 day lookback; 6 weeks historical data; Profiler, Monitoring, Error Tracking; Unlimited projects/services/transactions/users; Basic alerting & integrations; SSO with GitHub. |
| Business | €89 per month (monthly); 10% off if billed annually | Up to 250K monthly requests; 5 profiling traces/minute; max 1500 spans/trace; 5,000 trace triggers; 30 day lookback; 15 months historical data; Distributed profiling; Traces in history; Advanced alerting & integrations; Multi-team support. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing (contact sales) | Request limits above ~1 billion or fixed-price options not tied to monthly requests; Unlimited historical data; Technical Account Manager; Priority support; SSO with Azure AD; Payment via wire transfer and custom invoicing; Custom terms. |
Seller details
Tideways GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
2014
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