Install AURA to Debug Incidents Using an Open Source SRE Agent
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AURA is a fully open-source agentic harness built for SRE and production operations work. In this walkthrough, Mezmo forward deployed engineer Jeff iinstalls AURA on a local desktop, runs `aura init` to generate the config and connect it to an Anthropic Sonnet model, then wires in a Grafana MCP server pointed at his homelab. He hands AURA a live incident: a set of addressable LED lights that stopped responding to Home Assistant. The coordinator agent dispatches its incident response, metrics, and log analysis workers through MCP and returns a root cause analysis, a service stuck in a crash loop against a locked or corrupted SQLite database, with an unclean shutdown as the likely trigger and recommended remediation actions. No Grafana login, and no prior knowledge of the environment.
AURA is built for SREs and platform engineers who need agentic incident investigation they can inspect and own, without handing production access to a third-party black box.
Install options covered: Homebrew binaries for standalone copilot use,
Docker Hub containers, and headless mode for CI pipeline integration.
00:00 What AURA is and where to get it
00:14 Why the harness is open source and team-owned
01:17 Install paths: Homebrew, Docker Hub, headless CI
01:41 Running `aura init` and connecting an LLM
02:06 Inside the config: coordinator agent and workers
02:43 Adding a Grafana MCP server
02:56 Smoke test: verifying LLM and MCP wiring
03:33 The incident: LED lights unresponsive in Home Assistant
04:48 Root cause analysis: crash loop and locked SQLite database
05:24 Why this worked with zero environment knowledge
05:44 What's next: guided remediation, human in the loop, governance
Coming next: guided remediation, human-in-the-loop automated remediation, and governance policies that define when and where AURA can act without a human in the loop.
Star or fork AURA → https://github.com/mezmo/aura
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