Settings Page

The Settings page (open.claw.cloud/settings ) is where you monitor your cloud computer’s health and perform maintenance actions. It has three sections: Computer Status, Danger Zone, and Terminal.

Computer Status

The left-hand Computer Status card shows a live view of your VM.

Status

A colored dot plus label:

• Running (green) — Computer is up and OpenClaw is reachable.
• Stopped (yellow) — VM has been stopped (usually by you, via Restart on an already-stopped VM, or because a subscription expired). A Start button appears in Danger Zone when in this state.
• Resetting… (yellow, pulsing) — a reinstall or force-reinstall is in progress; this takes several minutes.
• Other (yellow) — any other VM state reported by the backend.

The page polls status every 30 seconds (every 10 seconds on paid accounts waiting for an initial IP).

IP Address

• Paid tier — shows the public IP of your Computer.
• Free tier — shows an “Upgrade for Public IP” link to the Billing page. Free accounts don’t have a public IP, which is why services like File Browser aren’t usable.

Resource Usage

Real-time utilization of the VM:

• CPU — percent used.
• Memory — used vs. total.
• System Disk — the OS disk.
• Data Disk — only shown if your VM has a data disk (accounts created after the data-preservation feature launched).

Numbers refresh automatically.

Configuration Error banner

If OpenClaw on your VM fails to start because its config file is damaged, a red “Configuration Error Detected” banner appears at the top of the page. The recommended fix is the Reset OpenClaw button in Danger Zone below it.

Danger Zone

The right-hand Danger Zone card has four maintenance actions. Each action’s button is disabled while another one is in progress, and most of them require the Computer to be in the Running state.

Every action pops a confirmation dialog first. The two most destructive ones (Reinstall and Force Reinstall) also require you to type a keyword to confirm:

1. Start / Restart

• Shown as Start when the VM is stopped, Restart otherwise.
• Restart: gracefully reboots the VM. Running processes are stopped cleanly. Takes 1–2 minutes to come back.
• Start: only visible for a stopped VM. Boots the Computer back up. Useful after a subscription was reactivated or after the VM was manually stopped.

2. Reset OpenClaw

• Resets only the OpenClaw configuration to factory defaults.
• Does not affect your files, installed packages, or data on the data disk.
• A backup of the previous config is automatically saved under Computer → OpenClaw Config → Auto Backups, so this is reversible.
• Use this when the Configuration Error banner appears, or when you want to start fresh with OpenClaw without losing files.

3. Reinstall

• Reinstalls the system image on your VM — OS, pre-installed software and the OpenClaw runtime are replaced with the latest version.
• Data disk is preserved: files under your home directory and data volumes survive.
• Takes several minutes; the status shows Resetting… the whole time.
• Only available on VMs created with a data disk. Older VMs see a dialog explaining they must use Force Reinstall instead.
• You must type reinstall to confirm.

4. Force Reinstall

• All data is permanently lost. Files, configs, installed packages — gone. This cannot be undone.
• Use only when:
  • Reinstall is unavailable (old VM without a data disk), or
  • The data disk itself is corrupted beyond repair.
• You must type erase to confirm.

Which action should I use?

Something's off with OpenClaw?
├── Just the config misbehaving → Reset OpenClaw
├── VM itself acting weird      → Restart
├── Need a newer image, keep files → Reinstall
└── Totally nuke and start over   → Force Reinstall

Terminal

The Terminal card at the bottom opens a SSH shell on your Computer directly in the browser.

• It connects over a secure WebSocket tunnel through OpenClaw Gateway; no credentials are needed.
• Click the fullscreen icon (top-right of the terminal) to expand. Press Ctrl + Escape to exit fullscreen.
• The terminal supports:
  • Copy/paste (standard terminal shortcuts)
  • Resizing — panel size auto-fits
  • Mobile long-press for context menu
• If the connection drops, click Reconnect to re-establish it.

Use the terminal for anything you’d normally do over SSH: inspecting logs, installing packages, running scripts, etc.