Prometheus
Query Prometheus metrics. Inspect dashboards and alerts from your agent.
Details
Prometheus skill lets your agent query Prometheus for metrics and run PromQL. For on-call and performance investigation.
When to use
Use when the agent should query metrics or explain alerts. Requires Prometheus URL; pairs with Grafana and PagerDuty.
How Prometheus fits into your OpenClaw setup
An assistant is only as useful to an engineer as the tools it can actually operate. Development skills like Prometheus are how OpenClaw earns a place in a software workflow: they let the assistant act on repositories, tooling, and build output instead of just talking about them. The teams that get the most from skills in this category treat the assistant as a junior collaborator with real responsibilities, not a novelty.
What working with it looks like
A typical session starts in chat: you describe what you need in plain language, and the assistant works out that Prometheus is the right tool for the job. It runs the work, watches the output, and replies with the result or a follow-up question. Because the conversation happens in Discord, Telegram, or whichever channel you have connected, the full history of what was asked and what was done stays searchable alongside the rest of your team's discussion.
Installing Prometheus
Setup takes a few minutes. Open a terminal in your OpenClaw directory, run the command below, and restart the assistant so it picks up the new capability. Check the skill's README before first use — if it needs an API key or account access, you want that configured up front.
When the assistant comes back online, give it one easy request that only this skill can handle. If it responds correctly, you are done. If not, you have caught the problem while the install is still fresh in your mind — far better than discovering it mid-task next week.
clawhub install prometheusGetting the most out of it
Skills compound. Prometheus on its own is useful; combined with the rest of a well-chosen toolkit, it becomes part of workflows the assistant strings together without being told. Browse the rest of the ClawHub catalogue with that in mind — the best setups are built around how you actually work, not around individual features.
Plenty of people configure this themselves over a weekend. If you would rather have it working by Friday, we install OpenClaw, configure skills like Prometheus for your exact workflow, and write custom ones for anything the catalogue does not cover.