# Azure Application Insights vs Tideways

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Azure Application Insights

| Attribute | Azure Application Insights | Tideways |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 62.7 (39% (low)) | 47 (72% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | - | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | An observability platform that provides visibility into application and infrastructure performance, helping teams detect and address performance issues. | PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time. |
| features.capabilities | `{"anomaly_detection":true}` | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","languages":"PHP","db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | - | 7 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"Splunk On-Call"}]` |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"29€/month billed annually","features":["Profiler, Monitoring, Error Tracking","Unlimited projects, services, transactions, users","Basic Alerting","Integrations: E-Mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Basic profiling and monitoring","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"lookback_days":"5","trace_triggers":"100","historical_data":"6 weeks","spans_per_trace":"500","traces_per_minute":"1","requests_per_month":"250K"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"89€/month billed annually","features":["All Team features","Distributed Profiling","Traces in History","Advanced Tracepoint Triggers","Advanced Alerting","Integrations: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Advanced profiling, distributed tracing, and alerting","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"lookback_days":"30","trace_triggers":"5000","historical_data":"15 months","spans_per_trace":"1500","traces_per_minute":"5","requests_per_month":"250K"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact for pricing","features":["Unlimited historical data","Technical Account Manager","Priority Support","SSO with Azure Active Directory","Wire Transfer, AWS Marketplace, custom payment terms"],"description":"Custom deployment for high request volumes","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"historical_data":"Unlimited","requests_per_month":">1 billion"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Premium Onboarding Workshop","components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":249,"currency":"EUR"}]}],"summary":"From 29€/month. 14-day free trial.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://tideways.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:12:26.312Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | no |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | - | mid |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | Azure Application Insights | 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 | - | - |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | - | PHP |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | - | Cloud only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:46:47.428Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*