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Monitoring Your OpenClaw Agent — Uptime, Performance & API Usage (2026) 📊 Monitoring Guide Monitoring Your OpenClaw Agent Uptime monitoring, performance tracking, and API usage alerts — the toolkit that…

Monitoring Your OpenClaw Agent — Uptime, Performance & API Usage (2026)
📊 Monitoring Guide

Monitoring Your OpenClaw Agent

Uptime monitoring, performance tracking, and API usage alerts — the toolkit that tells you when something is wrong before your users do.

Uptime Monitoring

Know When OpenClaw Goes Down

The simplest and most important monitor — a service that pings your agent every few minutes and alerts you if it stops responding.

UptimeRobot Free tier available

Monitors your OpenClaw gateway URL every 5 minutes. Sends alerts via email, Telegram, Slack, or webhook when it goes down. The free tier supports up to 50 monitors — more than enough.

Setup: Add your server’s public IP or domain as an HTTP monitor. Point it to port 3000 if exposed via reverse proxy, or use a simple health-check endpoint.
Betterstack (formerly Logtail) Free tier

More advanced than UptimeRobot — includes status pages, incident management, and on-call scheduling. Free tier covers personal use well.

Setup: Create a new monitor, add your endpoint, configure alert channels, and set the check interval to 1–3 minutes.

Create a simple health-check endpoint

Add a lightweight script that your monitoring service can ping. It checks if OpenClaw is running and returns a 200 status if healthy:

#!/bin/bash # /usr/local/bin/openclaw-health.sh — run as a simple HTTP endpoint via netcat STATUS=$(docker inspect –format='{{.State.Running}}’ openclaw 2>/dev/null) if [ “$STATUS” = “true” ]; then printf ‘HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\nOK‘ else printf ‘HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\nDOWN’ fi
Resource Monitoring

Track CPU, RAM, and Disk Usage

Netdata Free, self-hosted

Real-time server monitoring dashboard installed directly on your VPS. Shows CPU, RAM, disk I/O, network, and Docker container metrics with beautiful visualizations. Zero cloud dependency.

Install: wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh
Grafana Cloud + Prometheus Free tier

More setup but more powerful — Prometheus scrapes metrics from Docker and your server, Grafana displays them. Build custom dashboards for OpenClaw-specific metrics like request count and response time.

Setup time: ~2 hours. Worth it for teams or power users who want historical data and trend analysis.

Quick command-line monitoring (no tools needed)

# Real-time resource usage for OpenClaw container docker stats openclaw # Live log stream docker logs -f openclaw # Server resource overview htop # Disk usage df -h && du -sh ~/openclaw/data/
RAM Headroom Alert

Set an alert when your server RAM usage exceeds 80%. OpenClaw crashes silently when it runs out of memory — there’s no graceful degradation. If you regularly see 80%+ usage, upgrade to the next RAM tier before you hit 100%.

API Usage Monitoring

Track AI Spend in Real Time

Your API costs are the most variable expense. Monitor them weekly — or daily during the first month.

Anthropic Console Built-in

console.anthropic.com → Usage. Shows daily token consumption with cost breakdown by model. Set email alerts at 50% and 80% of your monthly limit.

OpenAI Usage Dashboard Built-in

platform.openai.com → Usage. Daily usage charts with per-model breakdown. Set hard and soft limits under Settings → Limits.

Daily usage summary to Telegram

#!/bin/bash # Daily Telegram digest — add to cron at 8 AM daily # 0 8 * * * ~/openclaw/daily-digest.sh BOT_TOKEN=”your-bot-token” CHAT_ID=”your-chat-id” UPTIME=$(systemctl is-active docker && echo “✅ Running” || echo “❌ DOWN”) DISK=$(df -h ~/openclaw | tail -1 | awk ‘{print $5}’) RAM=$(free -h | awk ‘NR==2{printf “%s/%s”, $3,$2}’) MSG=”📊 OpenClaw Daily Report Status: $UPTIME RAM: $RAM Disk: $DISK used — check API dashboard for spend” curl -s -X POST “https://api.telegram.org/bot$BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage” \ -d “chat_id=$CHAT_ID&text=$MSG” > /dev/null

Monitoring Is Live

You’ll now know about problems before they cost you hours of downtime or unexpected API bills.

Backup & Recovery →API Cost Guide