Best Monitoring Tools for OpenClaw: From Free to Enterprise
OpenClaw monitoring from basic to enterprise-grade. Fly.io logs, Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana compared.
Monitoring OpenClaw deployments ranges from free (Fly.io's built-in logs) to enterprise-grade (Datadog). Here's what you need at each stage.
Solo Developer: Fly.io Logs + Sentry
Fly.io built-in logs: fly logs gives you real-time log streaming. No setup needed.
Sentry: Free for <5K errors/month. Catches unhandled exceptions, performance issues.
import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node'
Sentry.init({ dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN })
Total cost: Free
Growing Project: Add Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud: Free tier includes 10K metrics, 50GB logs, 2 dashboards.
Point Grafana at Fly.io's Prometheus endpoint (/metrics) for custom dashboards.
Total cost: Free (under free tier limits)
Production: Full Observability Stack
Datadog APM: Full application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, infrastructure metrics.
- APM: $31/host/month
- Logs: $0.10/GB
Corresponds: Full-stack observability for $50-200/month depending on scale.
Comparison
| Tool | Cost | Best For | Setup Time | |------|------|----------|------------| | Fly.io logs | Free | Solo dev | 0 minutes | | Sentry | Free <5K errors | Error tracking | 5 minutes | | Grafana Cloud | Free tier | Dashboards | 30 minutes | | Datadog | $31+/host/month | Enterprise APM | Hours | | New Relic | Similar to Datadog | Enterprise | Hours |