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Self-Healing Server Monitor

An OpenClaw agent that checks your servers, diagnoses common failures, applies known fixes automatically, and escalates to you only when it can't resolve the issue itself.

Self-Healing Server Monitor

What it does

The agent runs periodic health checks on your infrastructure and takes corrective action:

  • Monitors endpoints with HTTP checks, response time tracking, and SSL certificate expiry warnings
  • Checks server resources: disk space, memory usage, CPU load, and running processes
  • Auto-remediates known issues: restarts crashed services, clears temp files when disk is full, rotates logs that have grown too large
  • Escalates intelligently: sends a Slack or Telegram alert with diagnosis and attempted fixes when it encounters something it can't resolve
  • Maintains an incident log so you can review what happened and what was done

Setup overview

  1. Install Slack or Telegram skill for escalation alerts
  2. Grant the agent SSH access to monitored servers (use a dedicated key with limited sudo permissions)
  3. Write a SOUL.md prompt defining health check targets, acceptable thresholds, and approved remediation actions
  4. Configure cron: */5 * * * * openclaw run server-check (every 5 minutes)
  5. Define escalation rules: what warrants a notification vs. what the agent handles silently

LLM and tools

Uses Claude 4.5 Sonnet for log analysis and diagnosis. Shell access handles the actual checks and remediations. Security is critical here -- restrict the agent's SSH key to specific commands, log every action, and never grant root access. Start with read-only monitoring and expand remediation permissions gradually.

Source

Based on 10 Wild Things People Actually Built with OpenClaw (Feb 2026)