Monitoring

Monitoring in EasyClaw means your agent watches a source of change and notifies you in Telegram when something worth your attention happens — without you polling websites or feeds by hand. The product goal is signal, not noise.

What it is

A background loop that combines (a) a data source (often RSS on Starter-class setups) and/or scheduled checks where your plan allows, with (b) a delivery path to Telegram, optionally summarized by the model on the managed OpenClaw runtime.

How it works

1. You define what to watch (feed URL, topic, or automation template in the dashboard).
2. EasyClaw runs on a schedule or when new items appear, within per-run budgets.
3. You get a short Telegram update when the change crosses the bar you care about — not every micro-edit.

When to use it

• Industry blogs, release notes, or competitor pages exposed as RSS.
• Keyword- or topic-style awareness when your plan supports richer web-style monitoring.
• Anything where “email me every tiny diff” would be unbearable, but “tell me when it matters” is valuable.

Examples

• RSS on Starter: “When this feed has new items, summarize the headline and link in Telegram every morning.”
• Pro-oriented web monitoring: scheduled search or topic monitoring configured from the dashboard — see Starter vs Pro.

Limits and plans

RSS is the straightforward path for recurring feed updates across plans (within fair use). Browser- or web-heavy monitoring is a Pro story: more moving parts, higher cost, and stricter guardrails. We do not promise identical behavior on every tier — check Starter vs Pro and checkout.

Common mistakes

• Expecting a site with no RSS to behave like a feed unless you add a feed or use a plan/feature that supports web-style checks.
• Asking for “notify me of everything” — EasyClaw is tuned for actionable summaries, not firehoses.
• Confusing a one-shot demo in onboarding with permanent scheduled monitoring; the latter is a product configuration + plan question.

Related

• Integrations overview — RSS setup lives with automations.
• Daily Control — complementary “what does my day look like” loop.
• Follow-ups — when the trigger is “someone owes a reply” rather than “the world changed.”

Next step: add an RSS-backed automation from the dashboard, then read Using the agent in Telegram so delivery feels natural.