Using Hermes Agent to administer and automate my homelab

One evening, my notification setup produced 75 failure alerts for a season of the TV show Suits. Sonarr kept retrying failed download candidates, and SABnzbd sent a notification for each failed attempt. Normally, this would mean I’d have to stop what I was doing, open my laptop, and begin the daunting task of figuring out where in my homelab stack the issue occurred. This time, I remembered I had installed Hermes Agent and thought maybe Hermes could help trace the error. I kicked off a task in my default profile, and after a few permission approvals, Hermes came back with a diagnosis of the problem. Hermes had discovered a misconfiguration in my SABnzbd storage settings and offered a solution that would fix the issue. It was such a niche setting that it would probably have taken me close to an hour to figure out. ...

September 30, 2026 · 7 min · 1473 words · Greg Walsh