Monitoring for always-on AI agents

A bot can't tell you it's dead.
We can.

Your Grok Bot runs routines while you sleep. When it silently stops, nothing on the platform tells you. Botalive expects a heartbeat from every routine and alerts you the minute one goes missing. Plus nightly backups of its skills and memory, and a Monday health report.

Free for 3 routines. Pro from $9/month. Works with Grok Bot, OpenClaw, Claude Cowork, cron jobs, anything that can POST to a URL.
# what your bot says when it's healthy POST https://botalive.dev/api/beat {"monitor":"morning-brief","status":"ok","duration_ms":4120} # what you get when it isn't ALERT Bot silent: morning-brief expected every 24 h, last seen 25 h 6 min ago last signal was start with no completion: the run probably hung check Routines, run history, plugin logins

Three things the platform doesn't do for you

Grok Bot has no failure notifications, no retries, no export and no backup. If the routine fails or the bot's computer stalls, you find out when a customer does.

01 Dead-man switch

Missed-run alerts

Each routine pings us at start and end. We learn its cadence after three runs. If it goes quiet past the grace window, or a run starts and never finishes, you get an email, Slack or Discord alert within a minute.

02 Backups

Nightly skills and memory

One routine posts a tarball of your bot's skills, routines and memory every night. We keep the last 14, encrypted at rest in the EU. If the bot gets wiped, you rebuild in minutes, not weeks.

03 Health report

Monday morning digest

Runs, failures, missed runs, reliability per routine, average duration, backup count. One email, so you know what your bot actually did last week.

Install is one paste

Give your bot the Botalive skill and your API key. It adds the heartbeat to every routine itself.

# tell your bot Install the Botalive skill from https://botalive.dev/skill.md My Botalive key is ba_xxxxxxxx Add a heartbeat to every routine and set up the nightly backup.
# or do it by hand in any routine curl -X POST https://botalive.dev/api/beat \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOTALIVE_KEY" \ -d '{"monitor":"inbox-triage","status":"start"}' # ... routine does its work ... curl -X POST https://botalive.dev/api/beat \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOTALIVE_KEY" \ -d '{"monitor":"inbox-triage","status":"ok","duration_ms":8200}'
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routines monitored
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heartbeats 24h
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failed runs 24h
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missed runs caught 24h

Pricing

Launch offer: code LAUNCH50 takes 50% off Pro and Team for the first 3 months.

Free
$0
  • 3 routines, 1 bot
  • Missed-run and failure alerts by email
  • 7 days of history
  • Public fleet status
Start free
Pro
$9/month
  • 200 routines, up to 10 bots
  • Slack, Discord and webhook alerts
  • Nightly backups, 14 kept
  • Weekly health report
  • 90 days of history
Go Pro
Team
$29/month
  • 500 routines, up to 50 bots
  • Everything in Pro
  • 365 days of history
  • Priority support
Go Team

Questions

Why not just ask the bot to email me if something fails?

Because a bot that has crashed, run out of usage, lost a login or had its computer stall cannot send that email. Failure detection has to live outside the thing that fails. That is the whole point of a dead-man switch.

Does this work with agents other than Grok Bot?

Yes. Anything that can make an HTTP request: OpenClaw, Claude Cowork scheduled tasks, Perplexity automations, n8n, a cron job on a Raspberry Pi. Grok Bot is simply where we started and where the install is one paste.

What do you store?

Monitor names, timestamps, status, duration and an optional short note that your bot chooses to send. Backups are opaque files you upload; we never open them. Data lives in Zurich, Switzerland (Supabase eu-central-2). Delete your account and everything goes with it.

Who runs this?

Botalive is an independent product, operated by Adido Ventures Sàrl, Switzerland. It is not affiliated with xAI, X, Cursor or Anthropic.