How to Monitor a Polymarket Bot (Logs, Alerts & Uptime)
An unmonitored trading bot is a liability. When a bot fails silently — a dropped connection, a rejected order, a stuck position — the cost is real money. This guide covers what to log, what to alert on, and how to keep a bot reliably online.
Why monitoring matters more for trading
Most apps failing quietly is annoying. A trading bot failing quietly can mean missed exits, unhedged exposure, or repeated rejected orders draining your account through fees. Monitoring is part of risk management, not an optional extra.
What to log
- Every order: timestamp, market, side, size, price, and result (filled, partial, rejected).
- Fills and resulting positions, with running P&L.
- API errors and reconnections.
- Balance changes and any limit that was hit.
- Strategy decisions (why it did or did not trade).
Good logs let you reconstruct exactly what happened — essential when reviewing a drawdown or debugging odd behavior.
Alerts that actually matter
Connectivity and API failures
Alert immediately if the bot loses its WebSocket connection, starts hitting rate limits, or cannot reach the CLOB. These are the failures that quietly stop a bot from trading.
Unusual P&L or exposure
Alert if losses approach your daily limit, if exposure exceeds a threshold, or if a single position is larger than expected. These catch both bugs and bad market conditions early.
Stuck or rejected orders
Repeated rejections often mean a pricing, allowance, or order-type problem. A burst of rejections should page you.
The most dangerous failure is the one you do not see. A bot that crashed at 3 a.m. and left a position open is far worse than one that alerts you and shuts down safely. Always pair monitoring with an automatic kill switch.
Uptime and auto-restart
Use a process manager (such as a container restart policy or a supervisor) so the bot restarts automatically after a crash. Add an external uptime check that pings a health endpoint and notifies you if the bot stops responding.
A lightweight monitoring stack
- Structured logs written to disk and rotated.
- Alerts pushed to email, Discord, or Telegram for critical events.
- An auto-restart policy on the process or container.
- An external uptime monitor on a health check.
- A dashboard to see positions, P&L, and recent trades at a glance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only and is not financial, investment, or legal advice. Prediction-market trading carries a real risk of loss. Automation does not guarantee profit, and past performance never guarantees future results. Only trade funds you can afford to lose, and confirm that Polymarket is available and legal in your jurisdiction before trading.