OpenClaw Telemetry: Monitoring Your AI Employees

How to use OpenClaw's telemetry and logging to monitor the health and performance of your AI employees.

Team · · 8 min read

Monitoring your AI employees is essential for ensuring they're performing as expected. Without monitoring, you won't know if your agents are hitting API limits, running into errors, or taking too long to complete tasks.

OpenClaw's internal telemetry and logging system provides all the data you need.

1. Why Telemetry for AI Agents?

  • Health Checks: Monitor the uptime and responsiveness of your agents.
  • Performance: Track the latency and token usage for each task.
  • Error Detection: Quickly identify and debug errors in your agents.
  • Optimization: Use telemetry data to optimize your agent's performance.

2. Using OpenClaw Logs

OpenClaw's logs provide a detailed record of every action your agents take.

  • Log Level: Set the log level to trace for detailed information.
  • Log Location: Logs are stored in ~/.openclaw/logs/gateway.log.
  • Log Rotation: OpenClaw automatically rotates logs to prevent them from growing too large.

3. Monitoring API Usage

You can use OpenClaw's telemetry to monitor your API usage.

  • OpenRouter: Monitor your token usage for each model.
  • Anthropic: Track your API usage and costs.
  • Firecrawl: Monitor your scraping usage and limits.

4. Technical Artifact: A Monitoring Workflow

  1. Initialize: openclaw gateway start
  2. Monitor Logs: exec command="tail -f ~/.openclaw/logs/gateway.log"
  3. Check Status: openclaw gateway status
  4. Analyze Logs: Use grep or rg to search for errors or performance issues in your logs.

5. Visualizing Telemetry Data

You can use tools like Prometheus and Grafana to visualize your OpenClaw telemetry data.

  • Prometheus: Collect and store your telemetry data.
  • Grafana: Create dashboards to visualize your data.
  • Alerts: Set up alerts to notify you when something goes wrong.

Conclusion: Monitor for Success

At Hangryfeed, we monitor all our AI employees using OpenClaw's internal telemetry and logging system. By keeping a close eye on our agents, we ensure they're always performing at their best.

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