Cron Health Check | OpenClaw Skill#

Description#

Monitors OpenClaw cron job health, identifies failures, timeouts, and delivery issues.

Cron Health Check | OpenClaw Skill#

Monitors the health of OpenClaw cron jobs by analyzing run history and identifying patterns of failures, timeouts, and delivery issues.

Usage#

• As a scheduled cron job to monitor job health proactively
• Manually to check current cron job status
• After fixing cron job errors to verify improvements

bash

# Check health of all cron jobs (last 24 hours)
python3 /Users/ghost/.openclaw/workspace/skills/cron-health-check/scripts/check_cron_health.py

# Check last 48 hours
python3 /Users/ghost/.openclaw/workspace/skills/cron-health-check/scripts/check_cron_health.py --hours 48

# Output JSON format
python3 /Users/ghost/.openclaw/workspace/skills/cron-health-check/scripts/check_cron_health.py --json

What this skill does#

• Analyzes cron job run history from the last N hours
• Identifies jobs with consecutive failures, timeouts, or delivery issues
• Reports health status (healthy/warning/critical) for each job
• Suggests fixes (e.g., adding --best-effort-deliver for delivery failures)
• Detects OpenRouter API limit issues

Integration as a Cron Job#

This skill can run periodically to monitor cron job health:

json

{
  "payload": {
    "kind": "agentTurn",
    "message": "Run cron-health-check skill to analyze cron job health.",
    "model": "openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-flash",
    "thinking": "low",
    "timeoutSeconds": 60
  },
  "schedule": {
    "kind": "cron",
    "cron": "0 */6 * * *"
  },
  "delivery": {
    "mode": "announce",
    "bestEffort": true
  },
  "sessionTarget": "isolated",
  "name": "Cron Health Monitor"
}

Output#

Health status for each job:

• healthy: No issues detected
• warning: Some issues but not critical
• critical: Multiple consecutive failures or timeouts

Issues detected:

• Consecutive errors
• Timeout patterns
• Delivery failures (suggests --best-effort-deliver)
• OpenRouter API limit exceeded

Exit Codes#

• 0: All jobs healthy
• 1: Warning issues found
• 2: Critical issues found