Laravel Nightwatch alternatives
Nightwatch is cheapest for Laravel app monitoring. For more: Telescope, Pulse, Flare, Sentry, Better Stack, Honeybadger, Lampwick and more. Checked 8 Nov 2026.
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We make Lampwick. Here's where each tool is the better pick.
Nightwatch itself is hard to beat on price for Laravel application monitoring: Pro is $20 a month for 7.5M events and 30 days of history, with unlimited apps and seats.1 Look elsewhere for what it doesn't do: uptime and certificate checks, frontend errors, other languages, incident management, an EU company. Our side-by-side is at Lampwick vs Nightwatch.
Last reviewed 8 Nov 2026. Competitor facts come from the vendor's own pages, linked in the footnotes.
The short list
| Tool | Best for | Free option | Entry paid plan | Uptime checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telescope, Pulse | Debugging locally; a basic production dashboard | Open source, runs in your app | – | No |
| Flare | Laravel and PHP errors, plus frontend JavaScript | 10-day trial | Hobby €9 a month (1 project, 1 user)2 | No |
| Sentry | Teams with several languages | 5k errors, 1 user3 | Team $293 | 1 included3 |
| Inspector | PHP frameworks beyond Laravel | 30k transactions, 3 days4 | Beginner €154 | Not listed |
| Better Stack | Uptime, incidents and logs | 10 monitors and heartbeats5 | $34 per responder seat5 | Yes, up to every 30 s |
| Honeybadger | Errors and uptime in one simple tool | 5k errors, 1 monitor6 | Team $266 | 1 to 5 monitors |
| AppSignal | APM with logs and uptime, PHP over OpenTelemetry | 30k requests7 | €18.25 billed yearly7 | Listed, count not stated |
| Lampwick | App monitoring plus site checks in one tool | 500k events, 3 days, 3 monitors | Pro €29 | 3 to 300 monitors |
Telescope and Pulse: free, inside your app
Open-source Laravel packages that Laravel says it will keep supporting.1 Telescope records individual requests, exceptions, queries and jobs into your own database and is pitched for local development.8 Pulse shows aggregated slow requests, jobs, queries, exceptions and server usage.9 Neither package's docs describe alerts. Our Telescope and Pulse guide covers running them in production.
Flare
From Spatie in Belgium: errors, performance and logs for Laravel and PHP, plus frontend errors from JavaScript, React, Vue and Svelte.10 €9 to €279 a month, with a month free when billed yearly, separate limits for errors, spans and logs and 30 days of history.2 Alerts go to email, Slack, SMS, Discord, Teams or webhooks;11 no uptime checks. More in Lampwick vs Flare.
Sentry
SDKs for most languages12 and an official sentry/sentry-laravel package for Laravel 11 and later.13 Team is $29 a month ($26 billed yearly) with 50k errors, 5M spans and unlimited users; every plan includes 1 uptime and 1 cron monitor.3 The pick when Laravel sits next to other languages.
Inspector
Transaction-based APM for Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, CodeIgniter and Drupal, with an MCP server. Paid plans run from Beginner (€15, 300k transactions, 7 days) to Enterprise (€169, 6M, 21 days).4 Transactions aren't Nightwatch-style events, so the numbers don't compare directly. The pick for PHP teams on more than Laravel.
Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, heartbeats, status pages, incident management, logs and error tracking, with data in Europe, the US or Singapore. The free tier, for personal projects, has 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page and 100k exceptions. Paid use is $34 per responder seat a month ($29 billed yearly) plus usage; members with telemetry access only are free.5
Honeybadger
Error tracking with uptime monitors, check-ins, status pages and a Laravel package.14 Team is $26 a month with 50k errors, 90 days and 5 monitors every 2 minutes.6 It offers EU data residency; the page doesn't show on which plans.
AppSignal
APM, logs and uptime monitoring, from €18.25 a month billed yearly for 250k requests. PHP support goes through OpenTelemetry; the pricing page doesn't mention Laravel.7 The pick if you already send OpenTelemetry data.
Lampwick
Errors, requests, queries, jobs and logs from your app, plus uptime, SSL, domain and DNS checks, cron health, status pages and a link crawler. Its Laravel package builds on laravel/nightwatch's MIT-licensed instrumentation. Pro is €29 for 5M events and 14 days. EU company, data in the EU. It falls short on volume and history per euro against Nightwatch, has no SMS or PagerDuty alerts, and catches browser errors with a script tag but has no source maps or framework SDKs.
What would a typical app cost?
The sample: 2 Laravel apps, 3M events a month in total, 5 people, 10 uptime monitors with SSL checks. Prices exclude VAT; we don't convert currencies.
| Tool | Monthly price | How we got there |
|---|---|---|
| Nightwatch | $20 + uptime tool | Pro: 7.5M events, unlimited apps and seats. No uptime checks.1 |
| Lampwick | €29 | Pro: 5M events, 5 projects, unlimited seats, 20 monitors every minute. |
| Flare | €29 + uptime tool | Standard, billed monthly (€319 a year billed yearly): 100k errors, 20M spans, 5M logs, unlimited projects and users. Counts spans, not events.2 |
| Oh Dear (site checks only) | $55 + app monitoring | Freelance: 10 sites.15 |
| Better Stack (uptime only) | $0 | Free tier: 10 monitors and heartbeats, for personal projects.5 |
| Sentry | Not computed | Team is $29 with 1 uptime monitor; the page prices extras "per uptime alert", which we can't turn into a cost for 10 monitors.3 |
| Inspector | Not computed | Priced per transaction; we can't map 3M events to transactions without knowing your traffic.4 |
| Honeybadger | Not computed | Team and Business include 5 monitors; the price for 10 isn't on the page.6 |
| AppSignal | Not computed | The page shows only the 250k-request plan.7 |
How to choose
- Only application monitoring for Laravel: Nightwatch.
- Free and in your own database: Telescope locally, Pulse in production.
- Errors first, including the browser: Flare or Sentry.
- Several languages: Sentry.
- Incident management: Better Stack.
- App monitoring and site checks together: Lampwick, or Honeybadger for errors and a few monitors.
Start free, or compare in detail: Nightwatch, Flare, Oh Dear.
Nightwatch pricing and FAQ, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Flare pricing, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Sentry pricing, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Inspector pricing, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Better Stack pricing, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Honeybadger plans, checked 8 Nov 2026.
AppSignal plans, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Laravel Telescope docs, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Laravel Pulse docs, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Flare home page, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Flare notification docs, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Sentry platforms, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Sentry for Laravel docs, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Honeybadger for Laravel docs, checked 8 Nov 2026.
Oh Dear pricing, checked 8 Nov 2026.