A dedicated monitoring suite for tracking API expenditures and diagnosing session failures within the OpenClaw environment.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install openclaw-skill-observability
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install openclaw-skill-observability using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Observability Skill?
The Observability Skill provides developers and administrators with critical insights into their AI agent's operational health and financial footprint. By aggregating session data and API usage, it ensures that your automated workflows remain within budget and function without silent failures.
This skill is indispensable for managing production-level deployments where understanding the cost-efficiency of different models and quickly identifying aborted sessions is vital for maintaining high uptime and performance standards using Openclaw Skills.
Observability Skill Use Cases
- Monitoring daily API spend across various LLM providers.
- Identifying patterns in failed or aborted agent sessions.
- Auditing session health to improve agent reliability.
- Comparing cost-efficiency between different AI models.
How Observability Skill Works
- The user triggers the monitoring tools via the OpenClaw interface or CLI.
- The skill queries the internal database for recent session history and metadata.
- Cost estimation logic processes usage tokens to generate a human-readable report.
- Error tracking logic filters the last 50 sessions to find aborted or failed instances.
- Results are returned as structured Markdown for easy analysis.
Observability Skill Setup
To enable the Observability Skill, ensure your environment variables for API pricing are configured. You can initialize the skill by running:
openclaw skill add observability
Verify that the agent has the necessary permissions to read session logs and database files.
Observability Skill Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill processes session metadata and generates reports with the following structures:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Model Name | The specific LLM used during the session |
| Estimated Cost | Calculated API spend based on token usage |
| Session ID | Unique identifier for tracking errors |
| Status | The final state of the session (Failed, Aborted, Success) |
Observability Skill Advanced Features
- Multi-model cost comparison for budget optimization.
- Automated error detection for the most recent 50 sessions.
- Exportable Markdown reports for team communications.
- Integration with Openclaw Skills health-check protocols.
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