Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
Self-healing monitoring system for OpenClaw gateway. Auto-detects failures, fixes crashes, and sends Telegram alerts.
Self-healing monitoring system for OpenClaw gateway. Auto-detects failures, fixes crashes, and sends Telegram alerts.
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
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Description: Self-healing monitoring system for OpenClaw gateway. Monitors health, auto-restarts on failure, and sends Telegram alerts. Diagnostics and log analysis run locally on-device. Alert notifications are sent to the user's Telegram bot. Use when user wants to set up gateway monitoring, watchdog, or auto-recovery.
Telegram Bot Token β Create via @BotFather Telegram Chat ID β Your personal chat ID for receiving alerts Python 3 β Required for the watchdog service OpenClaw β Installed and running
watchdog, monitoring, auto-fix, gateway health, self-healing, auto-recovery, watch dog
Send the user ONE message with everything they need: π Watch Dog β Self-Healing Gateway Monitor Watch Dog is a background service that pings your OpenClaw gateway every 15 seconds. If the gateway goes down, it automatically attempts to restart it and sends you Telegram alerts so you're always in the loop. All diagnostics run locally on your device. To set it up, I need: Telegram Bot Token β Create a bot via @BotFather on Telegram, then send me the token (looks like 123456:ABC-DEF...) Your Telegram Chat ID β Send /start to your bot, then visit https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_TOKEN>/getUpdates to find your chat ID Send me the token and chat ID and I'll handle the rest (including a test run to make sure everything works)!
Run these steps in order:
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/openclaw-watchdog/scripts/validate.py "$TELEGRAM_TOKEN"
chmod +x ~/.openclaw/workspace/openclaw-watchdog/scripts/setup.sh ~/.openclaw/workspace/openclaw-watchdog/scripts/setup.sh \ --telegram-token "$TELEGRAM_TOKEN" \ --telegram-chat-id "$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID" \ --gateway-port "$GATEWAY_PORT" # optional, auto-detected from openclaw.json
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/openclaw-watchdog/scripts/test-message.py "$TELEGRAM_TOKEN" "$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID" Wait for user to confirm they received the Telegram message before proceeding.
# Check service status if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then launchctl list | grep openclaw.watchdog else systemctl --user status openclaw-watchdog fi # Check logs tail -20 ~/.openclaw/watchdog/watchdog.log
Tell them Watch Dog is active, what it monitors, and that they'll get Telegram alerts if anything goes wrong.
Pings gateway health endpoint every 15 seconds (auto-detects port from config, or set via --gateway-port) After 3 consecutive failures, attempts openclaw gateway restart Up to 2 restart attempts, then asks user for reinstall permission via Telegram User approves by running: touch ~/.openclaw/watchdog/approve-reinstall Without approval, only sends notifications β no destructive actions Local pattern-matching diagnostics (no logs sent externally) Runs as macOS LaunchAgent or Linux systemd user service Credentials encrypted with AES-256 using machine-specific key
if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openclaw.watchdog.plist 2>/dev/null rm -f ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openclaw.watchdog.plist else systemctl --user stop openclaw-watchdog 2>/dev/null systemctl --user disable openclaw-watchdog 2>/dev/null rm -f ~/.config/systemd/user/openclaw-watchdog.service fi rm -rf ~/.openclaw/watchdog
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