Tideways is a paid PHP performance monitoring service for production applications. It helps identify slow code, database queries, external calls, errors, and exceptions. The profiler offers Timeline, Flame Graph, and Call Graph views, with on-demand triggering through its Chrome Extension. Monitoring includes per-minute response-time and request graphs, transaction and endpoint tracking, weekly reports, history, and release comparisons. Error tracking groups matching stack traces, captures context, and lets teams resolve or ignore groups. Automatic instrumentation supports Symfony, Laravel, Shopware, Magento, WordPress, Drupal, and TYPO3. Basic integrations include email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams; advanced options include PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, and Webhooks. Tideways supports distributed and transaction tracing in a hybrid deployment. Plans include a 14-day trial; Team pricing starts at 89.00 USD per month billed Monthly, while the listed Business plan is 189.00 USD per month billed Monthly. Yearly billing is 10% off. The PHP extension supports Linux and macOS, not Windows or FreeBSD.
Who it is for
Tideways suits teams running PHP applications that need production profiling, tracing, error grouping, and release comparisons. It is relevant to users of the supported PHP frameworks and Linux or macOS extension environments.
What is good
- Timeline, Flame Graph, and Call Graph views
- Production PHP performance monitoring
- Automatic instrumentation for major PHP frameworks
- Distributed and transaction tracing
- 14-day trial available
What to know first
- No free plan
- Windows and FreeBSD extensions unsupported
- Trace-trigger quotas disable new traces
- Plans are charged monthly
Verdict
Tideways provides PHP-focused observability with profiling, monitoring, error tracking, tracing, and alert integrations. Check extension-platform support and monthly trace limits alongside the plan’s request and history allowances.
Tideways plans and pricing
All plansCompared on application performance monitoring
- Free plan
- No
- Distributed tracing
- Yes
- Transaction tracing
- Yes
- Deployment model
- hybrid
