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Comparison

Lumigo vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Lumigo leads this comparison with a composite score of 55/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Lumigo55
Tideways44
Score
vioscaleAI score
Lumigo55 / 100medium · 73%
Tideways44 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
Lumigo✓
Tideways✗
Model
Lumigofree
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Lumigofree
Tidewaysunknown
Transparent
Lumigo✗
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Lumigo8
Tideways7
Security
Gdpr
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓
Hipaa
Lumigo✓
Tideways–
Pci
Lumigo–
Tideways✓
Soc2
Lumigo✓
Tideways–
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Lumigo6 items
Tideways6 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓
Distributed tracing
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓
Insight
Service map
Lumigo✓
Tideways-
Code / continuous profiling
Lumigo-
Tideways✓
Database monitoring
Lumigo-
Tideways✓
Error analytics
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓
Real-user monitoring
Lumigo-
Tideways✓
SLO / error-budget tracking
Lumigo-
Tideways-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Lumigo✓
Tideways-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
LumigoOTel-native
Tideways-
Core
Language agents
LumigoPython, Node.js, Java, Go
TidewaysPHP
Deployment
Hosting
LumigoCloud + self-hosted
TidewaysCloud only

What each one is

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

Lumigo

Leader

Lumigo provides observability for cloud-native and serverless applications. It offers distributed tracing, automated error detection, real-time monitoring, and microservices insights to help developers quickly identify and resolve performance and reliability issues.

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.

Lumigo

Leader
from $119/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.

  • BasicFree
    • 150k Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 5GB/mo Logs
    • 3 Days Log Retention
    • 5GB/mo Metrics
    • +3 more
  • Standard$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly
    • 1M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 40GB/mo Logs
    • 7 Days Log Retention
    • 40GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • Plus$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly
    • 5M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 100GB/mo Logs
    • 30 Days Log Retention
    • 100GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • CustomContact sales
    • Custom Traces
    • Custom Trace Retention
    • Custom Log Volume
    • Custom Log Retention
    • Custom Metrics
    • +9 more
as of verify ↗

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
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓
CLI
Lumigo✗
Tideways✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Lumigo✓
Tideways✓

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty

Lumigo

Leader
11 total - 9 not shared
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Serverless Framework
  • CircleCI
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon ECS
  • AWS CDK
  • AWS CloudWatch
Independently observed

Tideways

7 total - 5 not shared
  • Microsoft Teams
  • OpsGenie
  • Splunk On-Call
  • Email
  • Webhooks
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Lumigo or Tideways: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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