I redirected laravel/nightwatch to my own Postgres and hit 13,400 payloads/s on a single instance

If you run a Laravel app on a hosted observability platform like Nightwatch, you've probably sampled your telemetry down to keep the bill manageable. I wanted to keep all of it. laravel/nightwatch is Laravel's official observability SDK and the instrumentation itself is genuinely good. It's the hosted side that bothered me. Ingestion is usage-priced, throughput is bounded by what you're willing to pay for, and your telemetry lives in someone else's warehouse. Plenty of teams are happy with that