Bilge vs Nightwatch

Bilge vs Laravel Nightwatch: monitoring and error tracking compared

Nightwatch is Laravel's own first-party monitoring, built for Laravel apps. Bilge covers the same Laravel signals with no agent to run, and also takes errors from your JavaScript, mobile and other services.

Written by the people who build Bilge, so we are biased. We have tried to keep it about fit, not winners.

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At a glance

	Bilge	Nightwatch
Laravel depth	Requests, Blade, Eloquent, queued jobs, automatic N+1 and slow-query flags	First-party Laravel monitoring: requests, queries, jobs, exceptions and more
Other stacks	PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, WordPress	Laravel apps
Setup	Composer package and an API key; no agent process to run	Composer package plus a local agent process; check their docs
Using Sentry SDKs	Yes: Bilge ingests Sentry envelopes	No
Also included	Session replay, cron and uptime monitors, status pages, MCP server	Check current plans
Free plan	100,000 events/month, 1 project, 14-day retention, no card	See their current pricing

Nightwatch is a good fit when

Laravel-only teams who want first-party monitoring from the Laravel team.

Bilge is a good fit when

You want Laravel depth and one dashboard for every stack, alerts that stay quiet until something really breaks, a free plan you can run real traffic through, and a plain-HTTP ingest contract so leaving stays cheap.

Bilge pricing

Plan	Price	Events / month	Retention
Starter	Free	100,000	14 days
Standard	$29/mo	1,000,000	30 days
Growth	$79/mo	5,000,000	90 days

Trying Bilge next to Nightwatch

Run Bilge next to Nightwatch for a week. Bilge needs no agent, so it adds nothing to your deploy beyond the package.

Put a week of real errors through both.

The free plan needs no card, so it is a zero-commitment second opinion.

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