Service Uptime

What This Skill Does

The Service Uptime skill is a powerful command-line interface tool integrated into OpenClaw designed to monitor the health and responsiveness of web services. By leveraging the industry-standard curl utility, this skill provides granular insights into every stage of the request lifecycle, including DNS lookup time, connection duration, TLS handshake speed, and total request latency. It allows users to quickly verify whether a URL is publicly accessible, identify common HTTP error codes (like 404, 500, or 403), and differentiate between high-speed successful responses and problematic, sluggish services. The tool is designed for reliability, ensuring that even if a server hangs, the diagnostic process terminates gracefully after a specified timeout.

Installation

To add this capability to your agent, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sa9saq/service-uptime Ensure that the curl package is installed on your host system, as this skill acts as a wrapper around that core networking utility.

Use Cases

This skill is indispensable for DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and developers. Use it to verify that your website deployment finished successfully, monitor staging environments for unexpected downtime, or perform periodic health checks on third-party APIs you depend on. It is equally effective for troubleshooting intermittent connectivity issues, as the detailed breakdown of connection stages (DNS vs. TLS) helps pinpoint exactly where in the network chain a delay is occurring.

Example Prompts

1. "Check if https://my-production-app.com is currently up and report its total response time."
2. "Perform a bulk check on these URLs to see which ones are taking longer than 3 seconds to respond: https://api.github.com, https://google.com, and https://my-blog.com."
3. "Monitor https://status-page.io every 30 seconds for the next 5 minutes and tell me if it goes down."

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of this tool, always specify a reasonable timeout to prevent your agent from stalling on unresponsive servers. Note that this skill is strictly for HTTP/HTTPS protocols; it will not work for testing standard TCP ports, SSH, or ICMP pings. Furthermore, while the tool handles redirects automatically via the -L flag, it does not execute JavaScript, meaning it cannot verify sites that require client-side rendering to load content. Avoid using this to monitor URLs that include sensitive authentication tokens within the query parameters to prevent leakage of credentials in your agent's history logs.