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Health Checks (CLI)

Short guide to verify Gateway and channel connectivity without guessing.

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Quick checks

  • fased status — local summary: gateway reachability/mode, update hint, linked channel auth age, sessions + recent activity.
  • fased status --all — full local diagnosis (read-only, color, redacted where possible; review before sharing).
  • fased status --deep — also probes the running Gateway (per-channel probes when supported).
  • fased health --json — asks the running Gateway for a full health snapshot (WS-only; no direct Baileys socket).
  • Send /status as a standalone message in WhatsApp/WebChat to get a status reply without invoking the agent.
  • Logs: tail /tmp/fased/fased-*.log and filter for web-heartbeat, web-reconnect, web-auto-reply, web-inbound.

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Deep diagnostics

  • Creds on disk: ls -l ~/.fased/credentials/whatsapp/<accountId>/creds.json (mtime should be recent).
  • Session store: ls -l ~/.fased/agents/<agentId>/sessions/sessions.json (path can be overridden in config). Count and recent recipients are surfaced via status.
  • Relink flow: use Agent > Channels for the normal WhatsApp QR/account flow. CLI repair is still available with fased channels logout && fased channels login --verbose when status codes 409–515 or loggedOut appear in logs. The QR login flow auto-restarts once for status 515 after pairing.

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When something fails

  • logged out or status 409–515 → relink from Agent > Channels, or use fased channels logout then fased channels login for CLI repair.
  • Gateway unreachable:
    • local profile / source dev → start it with fased gateway --port 18789 (use --force if the port is busy)
    • hosting profile / installed daemon → restart the managed service instead of opening the port directly
    • keep the gateway on loopback; use Tailscale Serve, a tailnet path, or SSH if you need remote access
  • No inbound messages → confirm linked phone is online and the sender is allowed (channels.whatsapp.allowFrom); for group chats, ensure allowlist + mention rules match (channels.whatsapp.groups, agents.list[].groupChat.mentionPatterns).

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Dedicated “health” command

fased health --json asks the running Gateway for its health snapshot (no direct channel sockets from the CLI). It reports linked creds/auth age when available, per-channel probe summaries, session-store summary, and a probe duration. It exits non-zero if the Gateway is unreachable or the probe fails/timeouts. Use --timeout <ms> to override the 10s default.