Open-source, OTel-native observability for autonomous AI agents. Full telemetry, cost tracking, and safety alerts — on your machine, no backend required.
Every other observability tool is built for LLM developers. OpenClawWatch is built for people whose agents have real-world side effects.
Agents running overnight have full access to email, files, and services. Without observability, you find out what happened when a customer complains.
An agent looping on a failing tool call can burn $40/hr. Without per-agent cost tracking, you get the bill at the end of the month.
Behavioral drift detection, safety alerts, schema validation — they all require API keys, hosted backends, and credit cards. OpenClawWatch runs on your machine.
Full GenAI Semantic Conventions compliance from day one. Agent spans, tool calls, token metrics — exportable to Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog, or any OTel backend without transformation.
OTel SemConv v1.37+Real-time USD cost per LLM call, attributed to the agent and tool that triggered it. Configurable daily/session/per-agent budget alerts fire before you get the bill.
per-model pricing TOMLThe only observability tool built for agents with real-world side effects. Configurable alerts fire on email sends, file writes, form submissions, and payment actions.
unique to OpenClawWatchDeterministic, no-cloud drift detection. Automatically baselines token usage, tool call sequences, output schema, and session duration — alerts when agents deviate.
no API key requiredJSON Schema validation for tool outputs and agent responses. Declare schemas per-agent/tool in config, or use inference mode to auto-derive from observed sessions.
JSON Schema draft-07A full-featured CLI (ocw status / traces / cost / drift) with JSON output on every command. Local API at localhost with Prometheus /metrics endpoint, OpenAPI spec included.
pipe-friendly · scriptableWorks with every major agent runtime
The tools your team already uses are built for LLM developers. OpenClawWatch fills the gap they all leave open.
| Feature | OCW OSS | Langfuse | LangSmith | Vex | Guardrails AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | |||||
| OTel GenAI SemConv nativecompliant from day one | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ✓ | — |
| LLM call tracing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Token & cost tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Framework agnostic | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Autonomous agent safety | |||||
| Sensitive action alertsemail, file write, payment, form submit | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Cost budget alertsdaily / session / per-agent | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| NemoClaw sandbox events | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Retry loop detection | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Runtime verification | |||||
| Behavioral drift detection | ✓ | — | — | API key | — |
| Output schema validation | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Developer experience | |||||
| Fully local, no signup | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| CLI interface | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| OTLP export to any backendGrafana, Jaeger, Datadog… | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Open source / self-hostable | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
The commercial tier isn't a restriction — it's for teams. Multi-agent aggregation, dashboards, and SSO require cloud infrastructure that is out of scope for a local developer tool by design.
| Capability | OpenClawWatch OSS | ClawWatch Commercial |
|---|---|---|
| Telemetry collection | ✓ All runtimes | ✓ Via OSS layer |
| OTLP export (Grafana, Jaeger, etc.) | ✓ Full export | ✓ Plus hosted ingestion |
| Token & cost tracking | ✓ Single agent | ✓ Multi-agent + org budgets |
| Local safety alerts | ✓ stdout / webhook / file | ✓ Plus cloud channels |
| Behavioral drift detection | ✓ Deterministic, local | ✓ Plus LLM-as-judge |
| Output schema validation | ✓ JSON Schema | ✓ Plus custom eval rules |
| CLI interface | ✓ Full featured | — |
| Local REST API | ✓ localhost | ✓ Cloud-hosted |
| Web dashboard & charts | — intentionally excluded | ✓ |
| Multi-agent aggregation | — out of scope | ✓ |
| SSO / RBAC | — | ✓ |
| LLM-as-judge evaluation | — | ✓ |
| Hosted retention & search | — | ✓ |
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