Tideways
Find Out Why Your PHP App Is Slow Before It Costs You
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What is Tideways?
PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time.
Tideways pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From 29€/month. 14-day free trial.
Team
Basic profiling and monitoring
- lookback_days
- 5
- trace_triggers
- 100
- historical_data
- 6 weeks
- spans_per_trace
- 500
- traces_per_minute
- 1
- requests_per_month
- 250K
- Profiler, Monitoring, Error Tracking
- Unlimited projects, services, transactions, users
- Basic Alerting
- Integrations: E-Mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams
Business
Advanced profiling, distributed tracing, and alerting
- lookback_days
- 30
- trace_triggers
- 5000
- historical_data
- 15 months
- spans_per_trace
- 1500
- traces_per_minute
- 5
- requests_per_month
- 250K
- All Team features
- Distributed Profiling
- Traces in History
- Advanced Tracepoint Triggers
- Advanced Alerting
- Integrations: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom deployment for high request volumes
- historical_data
- Unlimited
- requests_per_month
- >1 billion
- Unlimited historical data
- Technical Account Manager
- Priority Support
- SSO with Azure Active Directory
- Wire Transfer, AWS Marketplace, custom payment terms
Add-ons
- Premium Onboarding Workshop€249 one-time
What Tideways does
The capabilities that matter for apm tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Auto-instrumentation
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Service map
- -
- Code / continuous profiling
- ✓
- Database monitoring
- ✓
- Error analytics
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- SLO / error-budget tracking
- -
- Anomaly / root-cause AI
- -
- OpenTelemetry support
- -
- Language agents
- PHP
- Hosting
- Cloud only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- macOS
- Web
- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- PagerDuty
- OpsGenie
- Splunk On-Call
Tideways FAQ
Common questions about Tideways, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Tideways?
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
How much does Tideways cost?
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
What platforms does Tideways support?
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
Can Tideways be self-hosted?
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
What does Tideways integrate with?
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
What security certifications does Tideways have?
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
Tideways alternatives
Other apm tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
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- PyroscopeCloud platform combining infrastructure monitoring with cost and AI usage analyticsmedium · 63%
- Datadog APMMonitor and troubleshoot cloud applications by unifying traces, logs, metrics, and user telemetry.low · 48%
- Azure Application InsightsEnd-to-end visibility into applications, infrastructure, and network systemslow · 41%
- DynatraceAI-powered platform for monitoring applications and infrastructure in real-timelow · 40%
- InstanaAutomatic observability with AI-powered root cause analysislow · 40%
Compare Tideways
Side by side against other apm tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Tideways, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 20 | 0.12 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.04 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rum: Yes · Hosting: cloud · Languages: PHP · Db monitoring: Yes · Code profiling: Yes · Error analytics: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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