openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix Gateway restart slow in 4.25 — hardcoded startup-grace and channel-connect-grace [1 comments, 2 participants]

Problem

After upgrading to OpenClaw 2026.4.25, gateway restarts take significantly longer due to a ~27 second delay between "gateway ready" and channel initialization.

Timeline from logs

00:10:24 [gateway] ready (4 plugins; 4.6s)
00:10:24 [gateway] starting channels and sidecars...
00:10:50 [openclaw-weixin] starting weixin provider   ← 27s gap
00:10:51 [browser/server] Browser control listening
00:10:51 [feishu] starting feishu[default]

The actual gateway core boots in 4.6 seconds, but channels don't start for another 27 seconds.

Root cause

Health monitor in 4.25 introduces hardcoded grace periods:

[health-monitor] started (interval: 300s, startup-grace: 60s, channel-connect-grace: 120s)

These values are not exposed in config schema and cannot be adjusted by users.

Environment

• OpenClaw: 2026.4.25 (aa36ee6)
• OS: macOS 26.4.1 (arm64) · Node 22.22.0
• Channels: Feishu, openclaw-weixin (3 accounts), browser
• Session store: 38MB / 200 files (already cleaned)
• Previous version: 2026.4.21 — restarts were fast, no delay observed

Impact

• Gateway restarts and config reloads feel sluggish
• Hot-reload config changes (e.g. bootstrap limits) still trigger a full ~30s restart cycle
• Channel probe timeout in openclaw doctor:

  Feishu: failed (unknown) - probe timed out after 10000ms

Suggested fix

1. Make startup-grace and channel-connect-grace configurable via gateway.healthMonitor.startupGraceSeconds / channelConnectGraceSeconds
2. Reduce defaults for local/dev mode (e.g. 5–10s instead of 60–120s)
3. Skip startup-grace entirely when gateway detects a local loopback-only bind (127.0.0.1)

Related

• #72804 — browser proxy configuration feature request (also a hardcoded-behavior issue)