NightOwl

What it does

NightOwl provides extensive observability for Laravel applications by storing telemetry collected by the official laravel/nightwatch package into your own PostgreSQL db. Pricing is flat-rate regardless of traffic volume, enabling cost-effective and scalable monitoring. It addresses the problem of vendor lock-in and unpredictable costs associated with per-event pricing, making it ideal for Laravel developers seeking full control over their application telemetry, data privacy, and cost management.

Self-hosted Laravel monitoring data — drop-in Nightwatch alternative. Your data stays in your Postgres. From $5/mo flat, no per-event fees.

Route your Nightwatch telemetry to your own PostgreSQL database. From $5/month flat — no per-event fees, no retention caps, no vendor lock-in. Requests, queries, jobs, scheduled tasks, mail, logs, exceptions. All correlated by trace. Auto-grouped by fingerprint with stack traces and per-env counts. Run history, durations, output capture, missed-run detection. Structured logs with context expansion and trace-aware navigation. Exceptions become tracked issues — status, priority, assignee, comments. Cache operations, mail, notifications, Artisan commands, per-user timelines — all captured and correlated by trace. Standard SQL. Your backups. Your retention policy. Query your monitoring data the…from usenightowl.com

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