Uptime Monitoring with Encrypted Energy - Know the second your OpenClaw agent goes silent
by @jmarbach
Know the second your OpenClaw agent goes silent. Free hosted heartbeat monitor — every-minute pings, public status page, and email alerts when pings stop.
1. Sign up at https://encryptedenergy.com.
2. Register an agent at https://encryptedenergy.com/agents/new — that page reveals a per-agent bearer token (the API key).
3. Schedule the ping via the user's system crontab. The gateway is not involved at run time — ping.sh is pure bash + curl, so don't route it through openclaw cron add:
( crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "* * * * * PATH=$HOME/.npm-global/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin ENCRYPTED_ENERGY_API_KEY= bash {baseDir}/scripts/ping.sh >/dev/null 2>&1" ) | crontab -
The PATH=$HOME/.npm-global/bin:… prefix is required — ping.sh calls openclaw health --json and openclaw status --json, and crontab's default PATH won't find the openclaw binary. Adjust the PATH if openclaw lives elsewhere (run which openclaw to confirm).
The cron pings http://localhost:18789/health and POSTs the result to https://encryptedenergy.com/api/v1/ping every minute. Wait ~70 seconds and the agent's status page will flip to UP.
Do not
ping.sh through openclaw cron add — it dispatches via an agent harness and bills LLM tokens for what is just a curl POSTclawhub install encryptedenergy-uptime