# Dynatrace vs Tideways

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Dynatrace

| Attribute | Dynatrace | Tideways |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 56.8 (39% (low)) | 44.3 (65% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A monitoring and observability platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide application performance insights, distributed tracing, security threat detection, and automated incident response across cloud and enterprise environments. It is indexed under APM Tools.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"What is Dynatrace?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Dynatrace offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00 per pod-hour per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"Is Dynatrace free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Dynatrace. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"What platforms does Dynatrace support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Dynatrace, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"Can Dynatrace be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Dynatrace, including Apigee, Flagsmith, Cursor, VSCode, JetBrains, Google Cloud Platform, AbuseIPDB and Google App Engine, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"What does Dynatrace integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time. It is indexed under APM Tools.","source":"https://tideways.com","question":"What is Tideways?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Tideways is a paid product; published pricing starts at €29 per month. It is sold across 3 plans (Team, Business and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://tideways.com","question":"How much does Tideways cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Tideways supports the web, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://tideways.com","question":"What platforms does Tideways support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Tideways, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://tideways.com","question":"Can Tideways be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 5 integrations for Tideways, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie and Splunk On-Call. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://tideways.com","question":"What does Tideways integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Tideways. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Tideways not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://tideways.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Tideways have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Dynatrace is an observability platform that collects and analyzes logs, metrics, and traces from applications and infrastructure. It offers pre-built applications for security investigations, compliance management, and developer debugging, with a data lakehouse called Grail for unified data storage and analysis. | PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time. |
| features.capabilities | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","languages":"PHP","db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | 2 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Apigee"},{"name":"Flagsmith"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VSCode"},{"name":"JetBrains"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"AbuseIPDB","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google App Engine","native":true,"category":"cloud-platform","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"APIContext","native":true,"category":"api","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"Splunk On-Call"},{"name":"Email","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Webhooks","native":true,"direction":"outbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"DE","primaryMarkets":["DE","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Foundation & Discovery","summary":"$0.01/host/hour","features":["Host health indicators","Host and process topology","Filesystem monitoring","OS services monitoring","Log correlation in context"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"host-hour","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Basic infrastructure monitoring and IT inventory","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Infrastructure Monitoring","summary":"$0.04/host/hour","features":["Everything in Foundation & Discovery","Process/disk/memory/network analysis","Custom metrics"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"host-hour","amount":0.04,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Infrastructure observability for cloud, hyperscaler, and data center","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Full-Stack Monitoring","summary":"$0.01/GiB-host/hour","features":["Everything in Infrastructure Monitoring","APM with automated root cause analysis","Code-level profiling","Kubernetes monitoring","OpenTelemetry metrics/traces","10 days trace retention (up to 10 years)"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"GiB-host-hour","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Comprehensive observability for applications, microservices, and infrastructure","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kubernetes Platform Monitoring","summary":"$0.002/pod/hour","features":["Kubernetes metrics and events","Health views","Resource and topology analysis","Included free with Full-Stack Monitoring"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"pod-hour","amount":0.002,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Visibility into Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Code Monitoring","summary":"$0.005/container/hour","features":["Live debugging","Non-breaking breakpoints","VS Code and JetBrains integration"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"container-hour","amount":0.005,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Live code troubleshooting and debugging in production","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Log Analytics – Pay-per-Query","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0035,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Log Analytics – Bundled Queries","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.02,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics Telemetry","components":[{"per":{"qty":100000,"unit":"datapoints"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.15,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Trace Telemetry","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0035,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Events Telemetry","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0035,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Usage-based from $0.002/pod-hour to $0.04/host-hour. Transparency emphasized; single commit with volume discounts and no overage penalties.","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T14:07:49.569Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.002,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Basic","features":["Profiling","Monitoring","Error Tracking","Basic Integrations (Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams)"],"description":"Entry-level monitoring with limited visibility","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention_days":"5","traces_per_minute":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","features":["Profiling","Monitoring","Error Tracking","Advanced Integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks)"],"description":"Mid-tier monitoring with extended visibility and advanced integrations","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention_days":"14","traces_per_minute":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","features":["Profiling","Monitoring","Error Tracking","Advanced Integrations"],"description":"Enterprise plan with custom contracts and full visibility","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"retention_days":"30","traces_per_minute":"25"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Teams Add-On","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Consulting - Performance Analysis","components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":199,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Subscription-based plans from Basic to Pro; free trial available. Pricing scales with project size and transaction throughput. Annual discounts available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://tideways.com/profiler/pricing-2023","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T22:21:56.402Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/security-investigator/ | https://tideways.com/security |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | Dynatrace | Tideways |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Service map | ✓ | - |
| Code / continuous profiling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Error analytics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | - | - |
| **Intelligence** |  |  |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | ✓ | - |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTLP ingest | - |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | - | PHP |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:33:00.398Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*