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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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PHP Session Garbage Collection: The unknown performance bottleneck

PHP Session Garbage Collection: The unknown performance bottleneck

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PHP Session Garbage Collection: The unknown performance bottleneck

Here is one performance setting in your PHP configuration you probably haven’t thought about much before: How often does PHP perform random garbage collection of outdated session data in your application? Did you know that because of the shared nothing architecture PHP randomly cleans old session data whenever session_start() is called? An operation that is not necessarily cheap.
New: Profiling PrestaShop performance
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New: Profiling PrestaShop performance

We have included PrestaShop 1.6 and 1.7 support in the last release of the Tideways PHP extension. If you are using Tideways with your e-commerce site based on PrestaShop, then you now get better insights for monitoring and profiling data. No changes to your code-base are necessary to get started.
Introducing Teams and Synchronization of Members from Github

Introducing Teams and Synchronization of Members from Github

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Introducing Teams and Synchronization of Members from Github

We are introducing “Teams” today, a new feature to improve access controls for your Tideways organization, after several weeks of testing with selected customers.
Launching the Tideways Company
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Launching the Tideways Company

Today we have a very exciting announcement: Qafoo and I have launched a new company together to turn my side project Tideways – a Profiler, Performance Monitoring and Exception Tracking tool for PHP – into a fully-fledged business. Last year I realized that I wanted to work more on Tideways, but with my projects going on at Qafoo investing more of my free time into it was not going to be sustainable in the long run. So we started planning to found a company together last year in September.
Improved Error and Exception Tracking

Improved Error and Exception Tracking

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Improved Error and Exception Tracking

In the last weeks we rolled out several new features for Error and Exception Tracking in Tideways that we have been missing ourselves in the day to day work.
Looking for Heroku Addon testers
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Looking for Heroku Addon testers

Are you a Heroku PHP user? Then this news will interest you: We are looking for alpha testers of the Tideways addon currently undergoing the process of becoming an official Heroku addon.
Flowdock integration is now available
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Flowdock integration is now available

Integration with Flowdock is now available in Tideways. If you are using Flowdock for chat ops in your business you can now send alerts for performance regressions and increased error rates to a Flowdock Stream. This allows you to have a discussion and response handling for every incident.
PHP 7 Release of Tideways

PHP 7 Release of Tideways

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PHP 7 Release of Tideways

We are happy to finally release the first PHP 7 compatible version of Tideways after several months of beta testing with customers and open-source users. A new version of the extension has been released with the major version 4.0.3 that works on Linux for now. We are still working on publishing releases for Mac and Windows platforms in the next days. You can find binary downloads as Tarball, Debian, RedHat and Homebrew packages or the source code in the master branch of our repository on Github.
OpsGenie integration now available

OpsGenie integration now available

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OpsGenie integration now available

We are thrilled to announce that our OpsGenie integration is now officially available for everyone to use. Tideways can now send Response Time Regression and Error/Exception alerts to OpsGenie and you can benefit from routing alerts through their service to avoid alert fatigue.