---
summary: "CLI reference for `openclaw health` (gateway health snapshot via RPC)"
read_when:
  - You want to quickly check the running Gateway’s health
title: "health"
---

# `openclaw health`

Fetch health from the running Gateway.

Options:

- `--json`: machine-readable output
- `--timeout <ms>`: connection timeout in milliseconds (default `10000`)
- `--verbose`: verbose logging
- `--debug`: alias for `--verbose`

Examples:

```bash
openclaw health
openclaw health --json
openclaw health --timeout 2500
openclaw health --verbose
openclaw health --debug
```

Notes:

- Default `openclaw health` asks the running gateway for its health snapshot. When the
  gateway already has a fresh cached snapshot, it can return that cached payload and
  refresh in the background.
- `--verbose` forces a live probe, prints gateway connection details, and expands the
  human-readable output across all configured accounts and agents.
- Output includes per-agent session stores when multiple agents are configured.