Gateway Monitor Auto Restart

What This Skill Does

The Gateway Monitor Auto-Restart skill is a specialized utility designed to maintain the continuous availability of the OpenClaw gateway. In complex AI agent ecosystems, the gateway often serves as the critical bridge for communication and data processing; if it hangs or crashes, your entire workflow halts. This skill automates the oversight process by implementing a robust health-check mechanism that runs every three hours. It does not simply restart the service; it performs a diagnostic assessment to determine if the process is unresponsive, executes a recovery sequence, and identifies potential points of failure if the service refuses to boot. By maintaining a clean log history with a 7-day rotation policy, it ensures that your system resources remain uncluttered while providing a forensic trail for any persistent connectivity issues.

Installation

To deploy this skill, ensure you have the OpenClaw CLI properly authenticated on your host machine. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/shirley6692026/gateway-monitor-auto-restart. The skill is designed to be "zero-touch" upon installation. It automatically detects your existing gateway configuration and registers a cron job in the background to handle the recurring 3-hour check cycles. No manual path configuration or environment variable tuning is required for standard setups.

Use Cases

This skill is essential for users operating 24/7 AI agent environments where manual downtime is unacceptable. It is particularly useful for headless servers, remote cloud instances, or edge computing environments where you cannot manually monitor the status of the gateway via a UI. Developers and system administrators who maintain persistent agent deployments rely on this tool to reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by eliminating the latency between a service crash and manual human intervention.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, check the current status of the gateway monitor and confirm if the last 3-hour cycle completed successfully."
2. "Show me the last 48 hours of activity logs from the Gateway Monitor to see if there were any unexpected restarts."
3. "Summarize the recent health diagnostics for the gateway service to ensure system stability."

Tips & Limitations

While this skill is highly effective for service recovery, it is not a substitute for proper system-level monitoring (such as Prometheus or Datadog). Ensure that the user account running the OpenClaw agent has sufficient sudo or systemd permissions to restart the gateway service; otherwise, the monitor will be able to detect crashes but will be unable to execute the recovery command. If you notice frequent restarts, use the log files to investigate whether an underlying conflict with other skills is causing the gateway to hang. The 7-day log rotation is hardcoded; if you require longer audit trails, you should manually archive the log files before they are purged.