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Comparison

Skylight vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Skylight leads this comparison with a composite score of 54/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Skylight54
Tideways44
Score
vioscaleAI score
Skylight54 / 100low · 49%
Tideways44 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
Skylight✓
Tideways✗
Model
Skylightfree
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Skylightfree
Tidewaysunknown
Transparent
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Skylight7
Tideways7
Security
Gdpr
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Pci
Skylight–
Tideways✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Skylight7 items
Tideways6 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Distributed tracing
Skylight-
Tideways✓
Insight
Service map
Skylight-
Tideways-
Code / continuous profiling
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Database monitoring
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Error analytics
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Real-user monitoring
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
SLO / error-budget tracking
Skylight-
Tideways-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Skylight✓
Tideways-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Skylight-
Tideways-
Core
Language agents
SkylightRuby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape
TidewaysPHP
Deployment
Hosting
SkylightCloud only
TidewaysCloud only

What each one is

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

Skylight

Leader

A service that tracks how Ruby applications perform in production, showing developers where their code spends time and what changes affect response speeds, with tools to spot slow endpoints and prevent performance regressions.

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.

Skylight

Leader
from $20/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 100,000 monthly traces; paid tiers starting at $20/month

  • FreeFree
  • Pay-as-you-goStarting at $20/month
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
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
CLI
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Skylight✓
Tideways✓

Integrations

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

Skylight

Leader
9 total
  • Sidekiq
  • DelayedJob
  • ActiveJob
  • Sinatra
  • Grape
  • GraphQL
  • MCP
  • GitHub
  • Rails
Independently observed

Tideways

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