Building a Real‑Time Dashboard for OpenClaw Rating API Edge Multi‑Region Failover

4a. Configuring Prometheus Scrape Targets for OpenClaw

Create a prometheus.yml file inside your UBOS‑managed Prometheus container. Add a scrape_configs block for each region:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'openclaw_us_east'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['us-east-1.openclaw.example.com:9090']
  - job_name: 'openclaw_eu_central'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['eu-central-1.openclaw.example.com:9090']

UBOS’s Web app editor on UBOS lets you edit this file directly from the browser and reload Prometheus without downtime.

4b. Defining Alerting Rules for Latency, Errors, and Region Failover

Place the following rules in alert_rules.yml and mount it into the Prometheus container:

groups:
  - name: openclaw_sla
    rules:
      - alert: HighLatency
        expr: histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(openclaw_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, region)) > 0.250
        for: 2m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "95th‑percentile latency > 250 ms in {{ $labels.region }}"
          description: "Investigate network or compute bottlenecks."

      - alert: ErrorRate
        expr: sum(rate(openclaw_requests_total{status=~"5.."}[5m])) by (region) / sum(rate(openclaw_requests_total[5m])) by (region) > 0.02
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Error rate > 2 % in {{ $labels.region }}"
          description: "Possible downstream service failure."

      - alert: RegionFailoverNeeded
        expr: up{job=~"openclaw_.*"} == 0
        for: 30s
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Region {{ $labels.job }} is down"
          description: "Trigger the multi‑region failover playbook.

These alerts feed directly into UBOS’s AI marketing agents (or any custom AI agent) that can call the OpenClaw DNS API to shift traffic.

4c. Setting Up Grafana Dashboards with Panels for Rating API Metrics

Import the JSON below into Grafana (Dashboard → Import). It creates three rows: Overview, Latency & Errors, and Failover Status.

{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "OpenClaw Rating API – Real‑Time Dashboard",
    "panels": [
      {
        "type": "stat",
        "title": "Total Requests (All Regions)",
        "datasource": "Prometheus",
        "targets": [{ "expr": "sum(rate(openclaw_requests_total[1m]))" }]
      },
      {
        "type": "graph",
        "title": "95th‑Percentile Latency by Region",
        "datasource": "Prometheus",
        "targets": [
          { "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(openclaw_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, region))", "legendFormat": "{{region}}" }
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "graph",
        "title": "Error Rate (5xx) by Region",
        "datasource": "Prometheus",
        "targets": [
          { "expr": "sum(rate(openclaw_requests_total{status=~\"5..\"}[5m])) by (region) / sum(rate(openclaw_requests_total[5m])) by (region)", "legendFormat": "{{region}}" }
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "stat",
        "title": "Region Health",
        "datasource": "Prometheus",
        "targets": [{ "expr": "up{job=~\"openclaw_.*\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}}" }],
        "thresholds": "0,1"
      }
    ],
    "templating": {
      "list": [
        {
          "name": "region",
          "type": "query",
          "datasource": "Prometheus",
          "query": "label_values(openclaw_requests_total, region)",
          "includeAll": true,
          "multi": true
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Use Tailwind‑styled panels (e.g., bg-gray-100) to keep the UI clean. The region variable lets users toggle between US‑East and EU‑Central instantly.

4d. Integrating the Testing Framework for CI/CD Validation

Add the following job to your .github/workflows/ci.yml (or GitLab CI) to run the OpenClaw integration tests after each push:

name: OpenClaw CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    services:
      prometheus:
        image: prom/prometheus
        ports: ["9090:9090"]
        options: --network=host
      openclaw_us:
        image: openclaw/rating-api
        env:
          REGION: us-east-1
        ports: ["8080:8080"]
      openclaw_eu:
        image: openclaw/rating-api
        env:
          REGION: eu-central-1
        ports: ["8081:8080"]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run integration tests
        run: |
          pip install -r tests/requirements.txt
          pytest tests/integration --sla-latency=250ms --sla-error-rate=0.02

The test suite asserts the same SLA thresholds defined in the Prometheus alerts, guaranteeing that a failing build never reaches production.

4e. Applying Playbook Recommendations for Multi‑Region Failover

When the RegionFailoverNeeded alert fires, follow these automated steps:

1. Trigger the UBOS partner program webhook that spins up a warm standby in a third region (e.g., ap‑south‑1).
2. Update the DNS CNAME record via the OpenClaw DNS API to point traffic to the healthy region.
3. Enable traffic shadowing for 5 minutes to verify request integrity before full cut‑over.
4. Log the event in the UBOS portfolio examples for post‑mortem analysis.

All actions can be orchestrated by a custom AI agent that consumes the alert payload, runs the playbook, and posts a Slack summary.