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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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Environments Revisited

Environments Revisited

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Environments Revisited

We have revisited the “Environments” feature of the Profiler and are stopping to collect performance data on non-production environments. With this change the user-experience becomes much better, because we can now always display the production data graphs. The environment switch dropdown was removed from the UI.
New Extension Release: Auto-Start Profiler

New Extension Release: Auto-Start Profiler

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New Extension Release: Auto-Start Profiler

We released an important milestone with the Tideways Profiler extension today. The new version allows you to start profiling and monitoring your applications without any code modifications. Documentation and setup guides will be adjusted to reflect this much simpler installation in the next days.
Chrome Extension to Start Tracing

Chrome Extension to Start Tracing

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Chrome Extension to Start Tracing

We are releasing a Chrome extension for Tideways today. The extension allows you to force the collection of traces for all requests of your current browser session with the push of a button, instead of having to wait for a random trace to be sampled.
We open the Beta for everyone today!

We open the Beta for everyone today!

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We open the Beta for everyone today!

Six month ago the first line of code was written. Now we are finally opening the beta registration to everyone. Read the press release on our company blog.
Improving XHProf further

Improving XHProf further

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Improving XHProf further

Almost a month passed since our last blog post on the XHProf extension and we are happy to announce more improvements today that were necessary to improve the experience and performance of the Profiler. We released all this as v0.9.7 of XHProf.
Improving the XHProf Extension

Improving the XHProf Extension

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Improving the XHProf Extension

Note: This post is outdated. Please find more information about our current improvements to the XHProf extension on its Github page.
Improving XHProf Trace Analysis

Improving XHProf Trace Analysis

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Improving XHProf Trace Analysis

With several waves of beta testers using the Tideways, we already recieved a fair share of feedback, both positive and negative. One point of criticism was centered around the user interface, particularly unexpected page reloads and weird back-button behavior.
Efficient collection of profiling data

Efficient collection of profiling data

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Efficient collection of profiling data

One of the first challenges when collecting profiling data from PHP requests regularly is the question of efficency. One central requirement we faced for the application performance monitoring is minimal overhead.
Introducing the Qafoo Profiler

Introducing the Qafoo Profiler

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Introducing the Qafoo Profiler

We are excited to welcome you to the first blog-post about the Qafoo Profiler, a tool for PHP application performance and profiling.