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Tideways 2026.2 Release

Tideways 2026.2 Release

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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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Using php-fpm as a simple built-in async queue

Using php-fpm as a simple built-in async queue

PHP Performance | Tech

Using php-fpm as a simple built-in async queue

There are many tasks that a web-request should not perform directly so the user doesn’t have to wait many seconds for a response. Examples include sending emails, uploading images to a CDN, resizing images or making expensive call to external services and many more depending on your use-case.
Improved Dashboard with Preview Chart and Recent Performance Metrics

Improved Dashboard with Preview Chart and Recent Performance Metrics

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Improved Dashboard with Preview Chart and Recent Performance Metrics

We have improved the dashboard in Tideways to include preview charts with the last 24 hours of performance data and the performance of the most recent 15 minute interval. This provides you with a much better overview of all your applications and by selecting any time range in the preview chart you can directly jump to a time-range that interests you.
How to optimize the PHP garbage collector usage to improve memory and performance?

How to optimize the PHP garbage collector usage to improve memory and performance?

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How to optimize the PHP garbage collector usage to improve memory and performance?

The behaviour of PHP’s Garbage Collection (GC) can be a small mystery and you might wonder how it works and if you can optimize its usage for your application.
Improved Timeline Profiler with Stacktraces, Zoom and more

Improved Timeline Profiler with Stacktraces, Zoom and more

PHP Performance | Tech

Improved Timeline Profiler with Stacktraces, Zoom and more

We just shipped a huge update to the Timeline Profiler in Tideways that improves the level of detail and usability of this core profiling feature. This is the first major step of several more updates to come in the next month.
Introducing SQL and HTTP duration trace filters and advanced query language

Introducing SQL and HTTP duration trace filters and advanced query language

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Introducing SQL and HTTP duration trace filters and advanced query language

Finding a specific trace you are interested in just got much easier with the addition of three new filtering features.
Profiling Laravel applications using the open-source Monica CRM as example

Profiling Laravel applications using the open-source Monica CRM as example

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Profiling Laravel applications using the open-source Monica CRM as example

Tideways has powerful built-in instrumentation for Laravel, including Eloquent Models and Blade Templating language. To show this support we have added a demo application using the excellent open-source Laravel application Monica – a CRM for your friends and family. You can sign up for Tideways for free and take a look at this and other demo applications.
Filter traces by bottlenecks, response time, service and release events

Filter traces by bottlenecks, response time, service and release events

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Filter traces by bottlenecks, response time, service and release events

We just improved the trace listing screen in Tideways and included four new filters.
Use timeouts to prevent long-running SELECT queries from taking down your MySQL

Use timeouts to prevent long-running SELECT queries from taking down your MySQL

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Use timeouts to prevent long-running SELECT queries from taking down your MySQL

You may be wondering if your users can slow down or even DOS your MySQL database with an unlucky request. If it contains just the wrong number of conditions in your advanced search form triggering a full table scan on a dataset that is much larger than you have anticipated they probably can.
New Integrations: PagerDuty and Generic Webhook

New Integrations: PagerDuty and Generic Webhook

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New Integrations: PagerDuty and Generic Webhook

We have added two new integrations for Tideways in the last days that can receive notifications for Response Time Degradation, Error Rates, New Exceptions, weekly Reports and new releases.