# Hermes Telemetry: Hermes Agent plugin

> Observability + budget guardrails for Hermes Agent — tokens, cost, latency, tool calls per session and cron job.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/hermes-telemetry  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-telemetry  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-16

Observability + budget guardrails for Hermes Agent — tokens, cost, latency, tool calls per session and cron job. Persists to local SQLite. Exposes /stats and /budget slash commands.

## Good to know before installing

Records per-session tokens, cost, latency, tool names and sender/profile ids (no message text) in ~/.hermes/telemetry/telemetry.db; fetches public model pricing from openrouter.ai/api/v1/models on first load and at most once a day; in the default enforce mode first load writes a $5/day, $100/month global budget to telemetry/budget.yaml, and a hard breach blocks every tool call and pauses the over-budget cron job until the window resets (set plugins.entries.hermes-telemetry.settings.mode: observe to record without enforcing); the optional standalone dashboard server binds 127.0.0.1 with no auth.

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install hermes-telemetry
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable hermes-telemetry
```

3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see the official page. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/plugins

## Facts

- Category: Security & privacy
- Maintained by: nujovich (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Version: 0.9.1
- In the catalog since: 2026-09-16, updated 2026-10-16

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-telemetry)
- [Source code](https://nujovich.github.io/hermes-telemetry/)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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