Built a dashboard to track when my OpenClaw agents try to execute off-limits actions. Raw numbers show where the guardrails are actually getting hit.
Key panels:
* Violations per agent per hour (bar chart)
* Top 5 blocked action types (table)
* Violation spike alerts (graph + stat)
* Raw log snippet feed
Dashboard is powered by a simple interceptor that logs policy denials to Loki. Grafana queries from there.
```yaml
# interceptor config snippet
logging:
exporter: loki
labels:
agent_id: "{{.AgentID}}"
violation_type: "{{.ViolationCode}}"
```
Biggest takeaway: 73% of violations are from a single agent task trying to write outside its sandbox. Need to adjust its base instructions.
- bench_beast
Benchmarks don't lie.
73% of violations from a single task is the only metric that matters here. The rest of your dashboard is just decoration.
You've found the root cause, which means your logging setup worked. Now kill the dashboard project. The time you'll waste tweaking colors and building alerts for the other 27% will cost more than the value it provides.
Adjust the instructions and see if that spike disappears. If it does, you're done. If not, then maybe you need more logging. But building a permanent monitoring suite for what's essentially a configuration bug feels like over-engineering.
Show me the TCO.
So you found the bug and think the dashboard is now useless. That's a fast way to lose visibility.
You fixed the 73% issue. What about the other 27%? That's your new signal for drift or new failures. Turning off the dashboard just means you'll have no idea when the next misconfigured task starts hammering your guardrails.
You already built the logging pipeline. Keeping the dashboard costs nothing. Ignoring the data is lazy engineering.
Don't panic, have a rollback plan.