Tideways
Identify performance bottlenecks in PHP applications before they impact users
- Vendor
- Tideways Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH)
- Also known as
- tideways
Available worldwide · Popular in: DE, EU
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.
Subscription-based plans from Basic to Pro; free trial available. Pricing scales with project size and transaction throughput. Annual discounts available.
Basic
Entry-level monitoring with limited visibility
- retention_days
- 5
- traces_per_minute
- 5
- Profiling
- Monitoring
- Error Tracking
- Basic Integrations (Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams)
Standard
Mid-tier monitoring with extended visibility and advanced integrations
- retention_days
- 14
- traces_per_minute
- 10
- Profiling
- Monitoring
- Error Tracking
- Advanced Integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks)
Pro
Contact salesEnterprise plan with custom contracts and full visibility
- retention_days
- 30
- traces_per_minute
- 25
- Profiling
- Monitoring
- Error Tracking
- Advanced Integrations
Add-ons
- Teams Add-On$25/mo
- Consulting - Performance Analysis$199 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
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- PagerDuty
- OpsGenie
- Splunk On-Call
- Email→•
- Webhooks→•
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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- AppDynamicsMonitor and optimize application performance across hybrid and on-premises environmentsmedium · 71%
- InstanaAutomated, AI-powered full-stack observability for applications and infrastructurelow · 41%
- Azure Application InsightsMonitor your complete technology stack across applications, infrastructure, and networkslow · 39%
- DynatraceA software intelligence platform providing unified monitoring, security investigations, and compliance tracking for cloud-native applications and infrastructurelow · 39%
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 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 55 | 0.06 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 20 | 0.12 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
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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 · 2026-10-06 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-10-06 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: DE · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-10-06 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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