Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent
A new Grafana Agent Observability plugin has been released for the Hermes Agent, allowing users to track LLM calls and tool executions via OTel traces. The update requires a migration from the previous 'sigil' plugin to the new 'agento11y' package.
Why it matters
This tool provides critical observability for developers building autonomous AI agents, helping them debug and monitor complex LLM-driven workflows.
Grafana Agent Observability plugin for Hermes Agent . Records LLM calls and tool executions as generations and emits OTel traces + metrics.
Preferred: let your agent do it Paste this into Hermes (or any Claude / Codex / Cursor / similar agent that can fetch URLs):
Install and configure the Grafana Agent Observability plugin for me by following https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexander-akhmetov/grafana-agento11y-hermes/main/llms.txt The agent will walk you through pip install, ~/.hermes/config.yaml , and the credentials from the Agent Observability setup page. It will also explain what conversation data flows by default and how to tune it before turning anything on.
pip install grafana-agento11y-hermes Install into the same Python environment hermes runs from ( which hermes to check). Then enable the plugin in ~/.hermes/config.yaml :
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