NightOwl

NightOwl is a self-hosted Laravel application performance monitoring tool that captures telemetry from Laravel's official Nightwatch SDK and stores it in a PostgreSQL database you control. It provides full-stack visibility into requests, queries, background jobs, scheduled tasks, exceptions, logs, and more—all correlated by trace ID. The project describes itself as a drop-in Nightwatch alternative.

Designed for Laravel developers who want to own their monitoring data, NightOwl offers flat-rate pricing starting at $5/month with no per-event fees or retention limits. It includes issue management, multi-channel alerts (Slack, Discord, email, webhooks), granular data clearing, and an MCP server for integration with Claude Code and Cursor. The agent buffers telemetry locally and drains it to PostgreSQL via the COPY protocol, benchmarked at 13,400 payloads per second.