GitHub Actions Monitor

Write GitHub Action job status to a remote backend. This project currently supports:

• InfluxDB
• Google Sheets
• PostgreSQL (coming soon)

Prerequisites

• An existing GitHub Action that you would like write job status to some remote backend.
• One of the supported backends configured with appropriate credentials.

Usage Instructions

Add the following step to your GitHub Action workflows for all jobs that you would like to monitor:

    - name: Push job status and other metadata to a remote backend
      # always run this step, even if previous steps fail
      uses: dkoshkin/status-writer-action@alpha
      # always run this step, even if previous steps fail
      if: always()
      with:
        # select the backend to use
        backend: "influxdb"
        # set InfluxDB details
        influxdb_token: "${{ secrets.INFLUXDB_TOKEN }}"
        influxdb_url: "${{ secrets.INFLUXDB_URL }}"
        influxdb_org: "${{ secrets.INFLUXDB_ORG }}"
        influxdb_bucket: "${{ secrets.INFLUXDB_BUCKET }}"
        # set the repository, status and additional metadata tags
        repository: "${{ github.repository }}"
        actor: "${{ github.actor }}"
        status: "${{ job.status }}"
        tags: "workflow=${{ github.workflow }},job=${{ github.job }},ref=${{ github.ref_name }},run_number=${{ github.run_number }},run_id=${{ github.run_id }}"

See sample workflows in .github/workflows/release-checks.yaml that use this GitHub Action as a composite action.

Versioning

This project uses semantic versioning. However, the alpha tag is used to indicate that the project is still in early development stage. Once the project reaches v1.0.0, a new v1 tag will be created and the alpha tag will be removed. Tags alpha and v1 will be updated to point to the latest release. You may also use any of the released tags dirrectly by adding an action suffix, for example v1.0.0-action.

Setup your Dev Environment

• Install asdf
• Install asdf-direnv
• Add a global direnv version with: asdf global direnv latest
• Install all tools with: make install-tools

Tip: to see all available make targets with descriptions, simply run make.

Lint

make lint

Test

make test

Build

The binary for your OS will be placed in ./dist, e.g. ./dist/status-writer-action_darwin_arm64/status-writer-action:

make build-snapshot

Pre-commit

make pre-commit

Update index.js

This GitHub Action uses a javascript wrapper to call the Go binary. To update the wrapper, run:

make build-index.js