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Comparison

Datadog APM vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Datadog APM leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Datadog APM63
Tideways47
Score
Vioscale score
Datadog APM63 / 100low · 48%
Tideways47 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Datadog APM–
Tideways✗
Model
Datadog APMcommercial
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Datadog APM–
Tidewaysmid
Transparent
Datadog APM–
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Datadog APM35
Tideways7
Security
Disclosure policy
Datadog APM✓
Tideways–
Gdpr
Datadog APM✓
Tideways✓
Iso27001
Datadog APM✓
Tideways–
Pci
Datadog APM–
Tideways✓
Soc2
Datadog APM✓
Tideways–
Reliability
Status page
Datadog APM✓
Tideways✓
Market
Availability
Datadog APMAvailable worldwide · HQ US
Tideways–

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Datadog APM

Leader

An observability platform providing code-level distributed tracing across web and mobile frontends, backend services, and databases. Correlates traces with logs, metrics, real-user monitoring data, and security signals to enable teams to detect root causes quickly and optimize application performance.

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.

Datadog APM

Leader

Pricing not documented yet.

Tideways

from €29/moSubscription14-day trial

From 29€/month. 14-day free trial.

  • Team29€/month billed annually
    • Profiler, Monitoring, Error Tracking
    • Unlimited projects, services, transactions, users
    • Basic Alerting
    • Integrations: E-Mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams
  • Business89€/month billed annually
    • All Team features
    • Distributed Profiling
    • Traces in History
    • Advanced Tracepoint Triggers
    • Advanced Alerting
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Unlimited historical data
    • Technical Account Manager
    • Priority Support
    • SSO with Azure Active Directory
    • Wire Transfer, AWS Marketplace, custom payment terms
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Datadog APM✓
Tideways✓
iOS
Datadog APM✓
Tideways✗
Android
Datadog APM✓
Tideways✗
macOS
Datadog APM✗
Tideways✓
Linux
Datadog APM✗
Tideways✓
CLI
Datadog APM✗
Tideways✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Datadog APM✓
Tideways✓

Integrations

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

Datadog APM

Leader
5 total
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Cloud Security Command Center
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Google Cloud Dataflow
Independently observed

Tideways

5 total
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • OpsGenie
  • Splunk On-Call
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.