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BuildPusher is the full-stack alternative to Laravel Nightwatch

Laravel Nightwatch is the Laravel team’s own monitoring for Laravel applications, installed as a package that reports what the app does. BuildPusher puts deploys, servers, monitoring and analytics in one account.

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Laravel Nightwatch is deep monitoring for Laravel apps. BuildPusher is monitoring tied to your deploys, uptime and status pages.

BuildPusher and Laravel Nightwatch at a glance
BuildPusherLaravel Nightwatch
FocusUptime, errors, traces, incidents and status pagesWhat a Laravel app does at runtime
StacksLaravel, plus any stack over OpenTelemetryLaravel
How you payFree tier, then by eventsBy events
Uptime and status pagesBuilt inNot the focus
DeploysEvery trace shows the deploy that served itBring your own

Who should choose which?

Choose BuildPusher if…

You want deploys, the servers they run on, monitoring and analytics to work together, on one bill.

  • Uptime, DNS, TLS and heartbeat checks, incidents with on-call and escalations, and public status pages in the same place.
  • Not only Laravel: any stack can send events or OpenTelemetry, and browser errors are caught too.
  • Deploys, servers, security scanning and Analytics are in the same account, and every trace shows the deploy that served it.

Choose Laravel Nightwatch if…

You want monitoring built by the Laravel team, with the deepest view of Laravel’s own internals.

  • Built by the Laravel team, with the deepest view of Laravel’s own internals.
  • A focused tool if application monitoring is all you need.
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3 reasons teams choose BuildPusher over Laravel Nightwatch

  1. 1

    From an error to the deploy that caused it

    Every issue and trace shows the release that was live, and you can roll back from the same account.

  2. 2

    Outside-in checks too

    HTTP, DNS, TLS, TCP, heartbeat and queue checks, incidents with on-call and escalations, and public status pages.

  3. 3

    Any stack

    Laravel through the buildpusher/laravel package, anything else through OpenTelemetry, and browser errors from your pages.

Try BuildPusher: monitoring without the busywork

Service health

Storefront · production

Operational

Availability, telemetry and response activity in one service view.

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Last 24 hours
Uptime
99.99%
Latency
142 ms
Objective
On target

Illustrative interface with sample data.

Sample data, for illustration.

What’s included in each

FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Nightwatch
Requests, queries, jobs and exceptionsYesYes
Exceptions grouped into issuesYesYes
OpenTelemetry from any stackYes—No
Browser errorsYes—No
FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Nightwatch
Uptime, DNS, TLS and heartbeat checksYes—No
Incidents, on-call and status pagesYes—No
Deploys and rollback in the same accountYes—No

What’s alike

  • A composer package that records requests, exceptions, slow queries and queue jobs, linked together.
  • Exceptions grouped into issues you can assign and resolve.

Switching is easier than you think

Three steps, with nothing to rebuild by hand.

  1. Step 1

    composer require buildpusher/laravel and set BUILDPUSHER_TOKEN

  2. Step 2

    Add uptime checks and choose where alerts go

  3. Step 3

    Mark releases with php artisan buildpusher:deploy and compare the two for a while

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Run monitoring without the overhead.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Monitoring from $29 a month. The free tiers of every other service come with it, on one bill.

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What else you should know

Laravel Nightwatch is a trademark of its owner. This page is based on their public information as of September 2026; products change, so check their site for the latest.

composer require buildpusher/laravel and set BUILDPUSHER_TOKEN. Add uptime checks and choose where alerts go. Mark releases with php artisan buildpusher:deploy and compare the two for a while. You can run both side by side while you compare, then remove Laravel Nightwatch when you’re ready.

A composer package that records requests, exceptions, slow queries and queue jobs, linked together. Exceptions grouped into issues you can assign and resolve.

You want monitoring built by the Laravel team, with the deepest view of Laravel’s own internals. Built by the Laravel team, with the deepest view of Laravel’s own internals. A focused tool if application monitoring is all you need.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Monitoring from $29 a month. Each is a line on the same bill, and servers are billed by your cloud provider.

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