Disable heartbeat

[storm jetty]

What's the proper way to disable heartbeat?

[worn girder]

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[half harness]

Two good options:

• Temporary pause, current gateway process only

  openclaw system heartbeat disable
  

  Re-enable with:

  openclaw system heartbeat enable
  

• Actually disable it in config

  openclaw config set agents.defaults.heartbeat.every "0m"
  

  That’s the proper persistent disable.

One important nuance, if you have per-agent heartbeat blocks under agents.list[].heartbeat, those can still run even if defaults are 0m, so disable/remove those too.

Also, target: "none" only stops delivery, it does not stop heartbeat runs.

Docs:

• https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat
• https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/system
• https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/config

If you want, I can help you check which heartbeat config path your setup is actually using.