What is Laravel Nightwatch?
Laravel Nightwatch is first-class monitoring for Laravel applications. Connect every Laravel event in your application from requests and queries to jobs and cache operations, giving you a complete picture of your application health.
Problem
Users currently rely on multiple tools for different components (requests, queries, jobs, etc.) to monitor Laravel applications, leading to fragmented monitoring data and lack of unified insights into application health.
Solution
A specialized monitoring dashboard for Laravel that aggregates all application events (requests, queries, jobs, cache) into a single interface, enabling users to track performance holistically and identify bottlenecks. Example: View real-time query execution times alongside job processing metrics.
Customers
Laravel developers, DevOps engineers, and technical leads managing production-grade Laravel applications who prioritize granular performance insights and error detection.
Unique Features
Native integration with Laravel's event system without requiring manual instrumentation, capturing framework-specific metrics like Eloquent queries, queue jobs, and cache operations out-of-the-box.
User Comments
Simplifies Laravel-specific monitoring
Identifies slow queries effectively
Lightweight compared to New Relic
Essential for production debugging
No more stitching multiple tools
Traction
Launched September 2023 on ProductHunt with 138 upvotes
Initial version (1.0) focused on core Laravel event tracking
Open-source with 420+ GitHub stars as of October 2023
Market Size
The $8.8 billion application performance monitoring market (2023) includes Laravel's niche, with over 1.3 million active Laravel developers needing specialized tools.
