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Self Monitor

Proactive self-monitoring of infrastructure, services, and health. Tracks disk/memory/load, service health, cron job status, recent errors. Auto-fixes safe issues. Triggers on: health check, heartbeat, monitor status, service status, infrastructure check.

BY meghal86UPDATED Oct 27, 2026
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---
name: self-monitor
version: 1.1.0
author: Polycat
tags: [monitoring, health, infrastructure]
license: MIT
platform: universal
description: >
  Proactive self-monitoring of infrastructure, services, and health. Tracks
  disk/memory/load, service health, cron job status, recent errors. Auto-fixes safe
  issues. Triggers on: health check, heartbeat, monitor status, service status,
  infrastructure check.
---

> **Compatible with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, and any SKILL.md-compatible agent.**

# Self Monitor

Proactive self-monitoring: infrastructure, services, and health.

## Usage

Run during heartbeats or scheduled checks.

### 1. Infrastructure Health

```bash
# Disk usage
df -h / | awk 'NR==2 {print $5}' | tr -d '%'

# Memory usage  
free -m | awk 'NR==2 {printf "%.0f", $3/$2*100}'

# Load average
uptime | awk -F'load average:' '{print $2}' | awk -F',' '{print $1}'

# Top processes by memory
ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -10

# Top processes by CPU
ps aux --sort=-%cpu | head -10
```

**Thresholds:**
| Metric | Warning | Critical |
|--------|---------|----------|
| Disk | > 80% | > 90% |
| Memory | > 85% | > 95% |
| Load | > 2.0 | > 4.0 |

### 2. Service Health

```bash
# Check if a process is running
pgrep -f "your_process_name" >/dev/null && echo "OK" || echo "FAIL"

# Check HTTP endpoint
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:8080/health

# Check systemd service
systemctl is-active --quiet nginx && echo "OK" || echo "FAIL"

# Check Docker container
docker ps --filter "name=mycontainer" --filter "status=running" -q | grep -q . && echo "OK" || echo "FAIL"

# Tailscale (if using)
tailscale status --json 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.Self.Online' || echo "FAIL"
```

### 3. Cron Job Health

```bash
# Check recent cron executions
grep CRON /var/log/syslog | tail -20

# Count failures in last 24h
grep -c "CRON.*error\|CRON.*fail" /var/log/syslog

# List scheduled jobs
crontab -l
```

### 4. Recent Errors

```bash
# Check system logs for errors
journalctl -p err --since "1 hour ago" 2>/dev/null | tail -20

# Check application logs
tail -50 ~/workspace/projects/*/logs/*.log 2>/dev/null | grep -i "error"

# Check dmesg for hardware/kernel issues
dmesg | tail -20 | grep -i "error\|fail\|warn"
```

## Quick Health Check (for heartbeat)

```bash
#!/bin/bash
# Quick health snapshot

DISK=$(df -h / | awk 'NR==2 {print $5}' | tr -d '%')
MEM=$(free -m | awk 'NR==2 {printf "%.0f", $3/$2*100}')
LOAD=$(uptime | awk -F'load average:' '{print $2}' | awk -F',' '{print $1}' | xargs)

echo "Disk: ${DISK}% | Mem: ${MEM}% | Load: ${LOAD}"

# Alert if thresholds exceeded
[ "$DISK" -gt 90 ] && echo "⚠️ Disk critical!"
[ "$MEM" -gt 95 ] && echo "⚠️ Memory critical!"
```

## Proactive Actions

**When issues detected:**

| Issue | Auto-Action | Alert? |
|-------|------------|--------|
| Disk > 90% | Clean temp files, old logs | Yes |
| Key process down | Attempt restart | Yes |
| Cron 3+ failures | Generate report | Yes |
| Memory > 95% | List top processes | Yes |

**Auto-fixable (safe):**
```bash
# Clean old logs (> 7 days)
find /var/log -name "*.log" -mtime +7 -delete 2>/dev/null
find ~/.cache -type f -mtime +7 -delete 2>/dev/null

# Clean temp files
rm -f /tmp/agent-temp-* 2>/dev/null
rm -rf ~/.cache/pip 2>/dev/null
```

## Report Format

```markdown
## 🔍 Self-Monitor Report - [TIME]

### Health Summary
| Metric | Value | Status |
|--------|-------|--------|
| Disk | XX% | ✅/⚠️/🔴 |
| Memory | XX% | ✅/⚠️/🔴 |
| Load | X.X | ✅/⚠️/🔴 |
| Services | X/Y up | ✅/⚠️ |

### Issues Found
- [Issue 1]: [Action taken or recommended]

### Top Resource Consumers
| Process | CPU% | MEM% |
|---------|------|------|
| ... | ... | ... |
```

## Integration with Scheduled Tasks

Add to your crontab or task scheduler:
```cron
# Run health check every 30 minutes
*/30 * * * * /path/to/health-check.sh >> /var/log/health-check.log 2>&1
```

Or run manually as part of your workflow:
```bash
./health-check.sh
```
COMPATIBILITY & REFERENCES

Platform guidance

Imported from the listed AgentSkill.sh category. Complete supplied package files and notices are retained. Required external tools and credentials are not installed. No bundled code was executed during import. Individual agent task behavior has not been tested.