{"slug": "openclaw-observability-monitoring-with-opentelemetry", "title": "OpenClaw Observability & Monitoring with OpenTelemetry", "summary": "OpenClaw has released a new observability integration using OpenTelemetry that provides real-time visibility into LLM applications and AI workflows by collecting traces, logs, and metrics. The integration allows users to send telemetry data to SigNoz for monitoring performance, debugging issues, and optimizing AI workflows through a single dashboard with correlated data and alerts for error rates or high latency.", "body_md": "What is OpenClaw Observability?\n\nOpenClaw observability gives you real-time visibility into your LLM applications and AI workflows by collecting traces, logs, and metrics using [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/). This guide shows you how to instrument OpenClaw and send telemetry data to SigNoz, so you can monitor performance, debug issues, and optimize your AI workflows.\n\nWith full OpenClaw observability in SigNoz, you can correlate traces, logs, and metrics in a single dashboard, set up alerts for error rates or high latency, and analyze LLM usage patterns over time to continuously improve reliability and efficiency.\n\nPrerequisites\n\n- A\n[SigNoz Cloud account](https://signoz.io/teams/)with an active ingestion key or[Self Hosted SigNoz instance](https://signoz.io/docs/install/self-host/) - For Python:\n`pip`\n\ninstalled for managing Python packages - A running OpenClaw instance\n\nMonitor OpenClaw with OpenTelemetry\n\nFor more information on getting started with OpenClaw in your environment, refer to the [OpenClaw quickstart guide](https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/getting-started).\n\nStep 1: Enable Diagnostic-OTel plugin\n\nThe `diagnostics-otel`\n\nplugin ships with OpenClaw but is disabled by default. You can enable it via CLI:\n\n```\nopenclaw plugins enable diagnostics-otel\n```\n\nOr add it directly to your config file (`~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`\n\n):\n\n```\n{\n  \"plugins\": {\n    \"allow\": [\"diagnostics-otel\"],\n    \"entries\": {\n      \"diagnostics-otel\": {\n        \"enabled\": true\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nStep 2: Configure the OTEL Exporter\n\nYou can configure the exporter via CLI:\n\n```\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.enabled true\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.enabled true\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.traces true\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.metrics true\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.logs true\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.protocol http/protobuf\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.endpoint \"https://ingest.<region>.signoz.cloud:443\"\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.headers '{\"signoz-ingestion-key\":\"<your-ingestion-key>\"}'\nopenclaw config set diagnostics.otel.serviceName \"<service_name>\"\n```\n\nis the name of your service`<service_name>`\n\n`<region>`\n\n: Your[SigNoz Cloud region](https://signoz.io/docs/ingestion/signoz-cloud/overview/#endpoint)`<your-ingestion-key>`\n\n: Your SigNoz[ingestion key](https://signoz.io/docs/ingestion/signoz-cloud/keys/)\n\nStep 3: Check your config (Optional)\n\nYou can quickly check your config using the following command:\n\n```\nopenclaw config get diagnostics\n```\n\nYour output should look like this.\n\n```\n{\n  \"enabled\": true,\n  \"otel\": {\n    \"enabled\": true,\n    \"endpoint\": \"https://ingest.<region>.signoz.cloud:443\",\n    \"protocol\": \"http/protobuf\",\n    \"headers\": {\n      \"signoz-ingestion-key\": \"<YOUR_SIGNOZ_INGESTION_KEY>\"\n    },\n    \"serviceName\": \"openclaw-gateway\",\n    \"traces\": true,\n    \"metrics\": true,\n    \"logs\": true,\n    \"sampleRate\": 1,\n    \"flushIntervalMs\": 5000\n  }\n}\n```\n\nOR you can check your `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`\n\nconfig file too.\n\nStep 4: Restart your OpenClaw gateway\n\n```\nopenclaw gateway restart\n```\n\nView OpenClaw Traces and Metrics in SigNoz\n\nOnce configured, OpenClaw automatically emits traces, logs, and metrics for every LLM request.\n\nOpenClaw traces are available in SigNoz under the Traces tab:\n\nWhen you click on a trace in SigNoz, you'll see a detailed view of the trace, including all associated spans, along with their events and attributes.\n\nOpenClaw metrics are available in SigNoz under the Metrics tab:\n\nWhen you click on any of these metrics in SigNoz, you'll see a detailed view of the metric, including attributes:\n\nTroubleshooting OpenClaw Observability\n\n[Troubleshooting OpenClaw Observability](#troubleshooting-openclaw-observability)\n\nIf you don't see your telemetry data:\n\n**Verify network connectivity**- Ensure your application can reach SigNoz Cloud endpoints** Check ingestion key**- Verify your SigNoz ingestion key is correct** Wait for data**- OpenTelemetry batches data before sending, so wait 10-30 seconds after making API calls** Try a console exporter**— Enable a console exporter locally to confirm that your application is generating telemetry data before it’s sent to SigNoz\n\nOpenClaw Observability Dashboard\n\nThe [OpenClaw observability dashboard](https://signoz.io/docs/dashboards/dashboard-templates/openclaw-dashboard/) gives you pre-built charts tailored for LLM usage, so you can monitor token usage, request rates, and latency out of the box.\n\nSetup OpenTelemetry Collector (Optional)\n\n[Setup OpenTelemetry Collector (Optional)](#setup-opentelemetry-collector-optional)\n\nWhat is the OpenTelemetry Collector?\n\nThink of the OTel Collector as a middleman between your app and SigNoz. Instead of your application sending data directly to SigNoz, it sends everything to the Collector first, which then forwards it along.\n\nWhy use it?\n\n**Cleaning up data**— Filter out noisy traces you don't care about, or remove sensitive info before it leaves your servers.** Keeping your app lightweight**— Let the Collector handle batching, retries, and compression instead of your application code.** Adding context automatically**— The Collector can tag your data with useful info like which Kubernetes pod or cloud region it came from.** Future flexibility**— Want to send data to multiple backends later? The Collector makes that easy without changing your app.\n\nSee [Switch from direct export to Collector](https://signoz.io/docs/opentelemetry-collection-agents/opentelemetry-collector/switch-to-collector/) for step-by-step instructions to convert your setup.\n\nFor more details, see [Why use the OpenTelemetry Collector?](https://signoz.io/docs/opentelemetry-collection-agents/opentelemetry-collector/why-to-use-collector/) and the [Collector configuration guide](https://signoz.io/docs/opentelemetry-collection-agents/opentelemetry-collector/configuration/).\n\nAdditional resources:\n\n- Set up\n[alerts](https://signoz.io/docs/product-features/alert-management)for high latency or error rates - Learn more about\n[querying traces](https://signoz.io/docs/product-features/trace-explorer) - Explore\n[log correlation](https://signoz.io/docs/product-features/logs-explorer)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openclaw-observability-monitoring-with-opentelemetry", "canonical_source": "https://signoz.io/docs/openclaw-observability", "published_at": "2026-05-26 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 13:27:01.498112+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "mlops", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenClaw", "OpenTelemetry", "SigNoz", "SigNoz Cloud"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openclaw-observability-monitoring-with-opentelemetry", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openclaw-observability-monitoring-with-opentelemetry.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openclaw-observability-monitoring-with-opentelemetry.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openclaw-observability-monitoring-with-opentelemetry.jsonld"}}