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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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View the code context for the stack trace of exceptions/errors

View the code context for the stack trace of exceptions/errors

PHP Performance | Product | Tech

View the code context for the stack trace of exceptions/errors

We have released a new opt-in feature that allows the collection of code around every part of an error/exception stack trace. This feature is disabled by default. When enabled the Tideways daemon stores 10 lines of code around each step in the stack trace of an exception or fatal error.
Introducing unlimited request plans

Introducing unlimited request plans

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Introducing unlimited request plans

We are introducing new plans for Tideways and are retiring the request-based pricing on March 15th 2017. You can already visit the new pricing page with all the information.
Improved time-range selection with the new preview-chart

Improved time-range selection with the new preview-chart

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Improved time-range selection with the new preview-chart

We are rolling out another new feature that has been high on our most wanted feature list for a while, a time-range selector using a small preview-chart with the response time trends of your application.
Slack, Hipchat and Flowdock notifications for new releases

Slack, Hipchat and Flowdock notifications for new releases

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Slack, Hipchat and Flowdock notifications for new releases

If you are using release events in Tideways to mark deployments of your application, then you will happy to hear that we have finally created notifications for them. Starting with Slack, Hipchat and Flowdock, you can now get a notification in two cases:
Introducing Services: Monitoring micro-services, CLI scripts and workers separately

Introducing Services: Monitoring micro-services, CLI scripts and workers separately

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Introducing Services: Monitoring micro-services, CLI scripts and workers separately

Your web applications usually runs in multiple contexts: the webserver, inside workers and as a cronjobs and it might even include calls to other micro- or SoA-services.
Receive Weekly Report in Slack, Mattermost, Flowdock or HipChat channels

Receive Weekly Report in Slack, Mattermost, Flowdock or HipChat channels

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Receive Weekly Report in Slack, Mattermost, Flowdock or HipChat channels

We are expanding our support for notifications about your applications performance with a Weekly Report notification that can be sent every Monday morning to Slack, Mattermost, Flowdock or HipChat.
Improved History View, Traces including Server Metrics

Improved History View, Traces including Server Metrics

PHP Performance | Product | Tech

Improved History View, Traces including Server Metrics

After a slow December of vacation and holidays we are slowly picking up steam again and are releasing the first new features of 2017 with an improved history and server metrics for traces.
Using HTTP client timeouts in PHP

Using HTTP client timeouts in PHP

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Using HTTP client timeouts in PHP

Timeouts are a rarely discussed topic and neglected in many applications, even though they can have a huge effect on your site during times of high load and when dependent services are slow. For microservice architectures timeouts are important to avoid cascading failures when a service is down.
Seperate your slow backend from the important frontend traffic with PHP-FPM

Seperate your slow backend from the important frontend traffic with PHP-FPM

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Seperate your slow backend from the important frontend traffic with PHP-FPM

If you are using Magento, Shopware, Oxid, a CMS or any other off the shelf software, then usually they ship both the frontend and the backend in a single application. For self-developed applications with Symfony or other frameworks this is often the case as well.