Comparison

Azure Application Insights vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Azure Application Insights leads this comparison with a composite score of 59/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Azure Application Insights59
Tideways44
Score
vioscaleAI score
Azure Application Insights59 / 100low · 39%
Tideways44 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
Azure Application Insights–
Tideways✗
Model
Azure Application Insightscommercial
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Azure Application Insights–
Tidewaysunknown
Transparent
Azure Application Insights–
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Azure Application Insights–
Tideways7
Security
Fedramp
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways–
Gdpr
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways✓
Hipaa
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways–
Iso27001
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways–
Pci
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways✓
Soc2
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways–
Trust center
Azure Application Insights–
Reliability
Status page
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways✓
Market
Availability
Azure Application Insights–
Content
Faq
Azure Application Insights4 items
Tideways6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways✓
Distributed tracing
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways✓
Insight
Service map
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways-
Code / continuous profiling
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways✓
Database monitoring
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways✓
Error analytics
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways✓
Real-user monitoring
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways✓
SLO / error-budget tracking
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Azure Application Insights-
Tideways-
Core
Language agents
Azure Application Insights-
TidewaysPHP
Deployment
Hosting
Azure Application Insights-
TidewaysCloud only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Azure Application Insights

Leader

A cloud observability platform that tracks application performance, infrastructure health, and network activity to identify and resolve issues proactively across hybrid environments

Independently observed

Tideways

PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Azure Application Insights

Leader

Pricing not documented yet.

Tideways

Subscription

Subscription-based plans from Basic to Pro; free trial available. Pricing scales with project size and transaction throughput. Annual discounts available.

  • Basic-
    • Profiling
    • Monitoring
    • Error Tracking
    • Basic Integrations (Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams)
  • Standard-
    • Profiling
    • Monitoring
    • Error Tracking
    • Advanced Integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks)
  • ProContact sales
    • Profiling
    • Monitoring
    • Error Tracking
    • Advanced Integrations
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways✓
CLI
Azure Application Insights✗
Tideways✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Azure Application Insights✓
Tideways✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Azure Application Insights

Leader

Not documented yet.

Tideways

7 total
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • OpsGenie
  • Splunk On-Call
  • Email
  • Webhooks
Independently observed
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