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PHP Application Performance Monitoring

Get full visibility into your PHP applications by seamlessly monitoring performance issues along with php errors, database queries and external calls using PHP monitoring. Fix critical issues sooner with real-time alerts impacting your users.

PHP Application Performance Monitoring
Challenges

Instant PHP clarity when things break

End-to-end request flow

Follow how PHP requests move through application logic, databases, and external services under real traffic.

Cross-service request context

Understand how PHP requests interact with downstream services and where delays are introduced across boundaries.

Application dependency visibility

See how internal components and external services relate to each other and where architectural bottlenecks form.

Database execution insight

Analyze database behavior in the context of real PHP requests to isolate inefficient interactions.

External call performance

Track outbound network calls to APIs and services that influence response time and reliability.

Logs with execution context

View logs alongside runtime behavior to understand what happened and why it happened.

Security posture awareness

Surface risky runtime behavior and configuration issues that affect application stability.

Runtime error context

Capture failures with enough execution detail to understand impact and scope.

Key Features

Everything You Need to Monitor & Optimize

Production-ready observability features that help you ship faster with confidence

Trace-level Visibility Across Your Stack

See every request from frontend or API to backend services, including timing, errors, and relationships. Quickly pinpoint performance issues and link them to code and user impact.

External Requests Dashboard

Visualize Service Dependencies

Map service interactions, frequency, and latency to uncover bottlenecks. Overlay health metrics for a clear view of system performance.

Distributed Tracing

Monitor Critical Transactions

Group requests by endpoints, business flows, or operations to track latency, errors, and throughput. Keep key user journeys and SLAs on track.

Request Trace View

Track External Dependencies

Monitor third-party API calls, latency, and errors to spot external slowdowns and prevent wasted troubleshooting.

Database Query TimeDatabase Query Time
Why Atatus

Why teams choose Atatus?

Teams choose Atatus for clear visibility into PHP performance without adding complexity to their stack.

01

Built for PHP execution

Insights are tailored to how PHP applications behave in real production environments.

02

Faster issue diagnosis

Minimal configuration and focused dashboards help teams identify and resolve issues quickly.

03

Low operational overhead

Lightweight monitoring avoids performance impact and reduces ongoing maintenance effort.

04

Clear performance signals

Relevant metrics are surfaced without overwhelming teams with unnecessary data.

05

Supports growing SaaS workloads

Scales from small PHP applications to high-traffic, production-critical systems.

06

Predictable pricing

Usage-based pricing without long-term contracts or restrictive feature tiers.

Teams

Unified Observability for Every Engineering Team

Atatus adapts to how engineering teams work across development, operations, and reliability.

Supported frameworks

PHP monitoring with no code changes

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Pricing, deployment, data and the agent. If something is missing, a person will answer it on a demo call.

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  • The PHP performance monitoring tool helps developers to optimize the PHP server performance.

    A good PHP APM solution answers the following two questions:

    • Is an application broken or slow?
    • What is issue that's causing the application broken or slow?

    You can easily use application performance monitoring tools to answer, detect and resolve the above issues before they could impact the end users.

  • In general, there are two types of monitoring:

    • Black-box monitoring - It allows you can monitor the external behaviour of your system such as CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, load averages etc..
    • White-box monitoring - It allows you to keep an eye on the applications running on your server. It requires an agent to enable white-box monitoring.
  • Every organization should have a well-implemented PHP APM solution, which allows DevOps teams (and the organization as a whole) to resolve issues and performance bottlenecks efficiently and reduce Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). This has a substantial impact on the bottom line of the business.

    Now organizations do not have to deal with the unnecessary work involved in maintaining an extensive software analysis group.

  • Your PHP performance monitoring tools should be easy to use, offer actionable insights, and be able to:

    • Manage applications in the language(s) your apps use
    • Track performance at the code level
    • Keep an eye on end-user experiences
    • Make use of artificial intelligence
    • The ability to monitor the entire infrastructure
    • Provides information that connects app performance metrics to business outcomes.
  • Technical Benefits:

    • Increase application uptime and reduces downtime
    • Code level diagnostics
    • Avoid network outages
    • Reduces MTTR
    • Server metrics
    • Alerts and notification on error information

    Business Benefits:

    • Higher conversion rate
    • Improves SEO
    • Better end-user experience
    • Improves productivity
    • Reduced operational costs
  • With the help of the database monitoring, you can easily identify the database performance bottlenecks.

    • Understand who's using your databases.
    • Track key performance metrics for DB performance tuning.
    • Detect the slow and most-time consuming SQL queries to optimize it.
    • Alerts on availability and performance issues.
Get started

See inside every PHP request.

Install the Atatus agent to trace every PHP request, database query and error.

  • SaaS
  • On-premises
  • Hybrid
  • BYOC
  • No per-user pricing

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