Self-Hosting Your OpenClaw Fleet Dashboard With Docker and Terraform

Enterprise teams often face a dilemma: they want the power of a managed telemetry engine, but their compliance teams demand that the visualization of that data stays within their virtual private cloud (VPC). We built the ClawTrace Lite Dashboard specifically for this "Hybrid-Cloud" approach.

The Architecture: Local UI, Global Brain

The ClawTrace backend handles the heavy lifting—sub-millisecond ingestion, complex aggregation, and global alerting. Your self-hosted dashboard simply queries our encrypted API and renders the data locally, ensuring your internal reasoning traces never leave your controlled environment unnecessarily.

Deployment via Docker Compose

version: '3.8'
services:
  claw-dashboard:
    image: ghcr.io/clawtrace/dashboard-lite:latest
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      - CLAW_API_KEY={YOUR_SAAS_KEY}
      - CLAW_ORG_ID={YOUR_ORG_ID}
      - LOCAL_AUTH_SECRET={GENERATE_RANDOM}
        

Scaling with Terraform

If you're running across multiple regions, manually managing individual Docker instances is a nightmare. Use our official Terraform provider to deploy your fleet controllers alongside your agents.

resource "clawtrace_fleet_controller" "prod_west" {
  name       = "prod-us-west-2"
  region     = "us-west-2"
  max_agents = 500
  
  policy_overrides = {
    enforce_strict_pii = true
    max_token_burn     = 1000000
  }
}
        

Conclusion: Control Without the Overhead

By self-hosting your dashboard, you keep your compliance team happy without forcing your developers to build a telemetry engine from scratch. It's the best of both worlds: SaaS scale with VPC-level privacy.