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Tideways 2026.2 Release

Tideways 2026.2 Release

Product | Tideways-News

Tideways 2026.2 Release

Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed, with new layout modes, improved navigation, and a more consistent span model. These changes help […]
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Ten years of Tideways! Thank you for being part of the journey.

10 years ago, Benjamin founded Tideways with a clear goal: support PHP developers and help build faster, more reliable websites. Since then, more than 2,000 customers have used Tideways to gain better visibility into their PHP applications. Seeing that web applications are slow without understanding why sparked an idea for Benjamin, that ultimately led to […]

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Use Tideways for applications of all sizes with the new Flex plan

Use Tideways for applications of all sizes with the new Flex plan

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Use Tideways for applications of all sizes with the new Flex plan

The PHP community is large and diverse in their approach to build and run PHP applications. We have seen hundreds of small applications running on a handful of servers and one product running on multiple clusters and hundreds of servers across the globe. Still, we believe all PHP applications regardless of size benefit from monitoring, profiling and exception tracking functionality.
Trigger Trace 2.0 Preview: What's New

Trigger Trace 2.0 Preview: What’s New

Product | Tech

Trigger Trace 2.0 Preview: What’s New

Last year we asked all our customers what they think we should work on and “Triggering Traces” came out on top. We started planning a prototype in Winter last year and are ready to share the current state and a few ideas ideas as we launch the beta program. The general release date is planned for late February/March.
Tideways sponsoring Unconference 2019 at the 10th PHP Benelux

Tideways sponsoring Unconference 2019 at the 10th PHP Benelux

Event | Tideways-News

Tideways sponsoring Unconference 2019 at the 10th PHP Benelux

Only a few days to go and one of our favorite PHP conferences is opening its doors – the PHP Benelux. And it is the anniversary edition – 10 years PHP Benelux – can you believe it?
Adding Spryker Commerce Support

Adding Spryker Commerce Support

Tech | Tideways-News

Adding Spryker Commerce Support

We are happy to announce that our latest version of the Tideways extension (v5.0.22) includes support for the Spryker E-Commerce Platform through fully automated instrumentation and hooks into the core of Spryker.
Black Friday Performance of Magento, Oxid, Shopware shops 2016/2017
Benchmarks | PHP Performance

Black Friday Performance of Magento, Oxid, Shopware shops 2016/2017

With all the customers running Tideways on their Magento, Oxid or Shopware shops I was interested in how in the aggregated average, those shops usually perform on Black Friday compared to the 8 weeks before and the weeks after leading up to Christmas.
Tideways No. 5
Product | Tideways-News

Tideways No. 5

A few weeks into year five of the Tideways project we are happy to announce the release of Tideways version 5, including large updates to all parts of the stack from PHP extension, daemon and the user-interface. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Tideways no. 5!
New: Downstream Service Monitoring

New: Downstream Service Monitoring

Product | Tech

New: Downstream Service Monitoring

Having detailed response time percentiles and impact analysis for transactions is great. But often it’s not the php application that is causing unwanted spikes in response times rather than services used by your application, such as MySQL, redis, HTTP APIs and so on.
The difficulty of Memory Profiling in PHP

The difficulty of Memory Profiling in PHP

PHP Performance | Tech

The difficulty of Memory Profiling in PHP

Did you ever have a memory leak in your PHP program and couldn’t locate the exact source in your code? From my experience with memory profiling in PHP, this is caused by the PHP engine and how it manages memory.
Testing a new approach to Memory Profiling in PHP with XHProf

Testing a new approach to Memory Profiling in PHP with XHProf

PHP Performance | Tech

Testing a new approach to Memory Profiling in PHP with XHProf

Memory profiling in PHP has traditionally been hard. Most memory profilers compare the memory or peak memory before and after a function call to find out how much memory usage increased or decreased. This can be achieved by calling the equivalent of memory_get_usage() and memory_get_peak_usage() functions from within the profiling extension.