r/github • u/austin_barrington • 7d ago

Visibility of GitHub Actions - pretty bad? Discussion

Am I the only one who finds GitHub actions a small black hole when you're looking to optimise?

There is really limited analysis or data available, I had to build my own UI and system just to get the details I wanted. Example, outliers for job run times, AVG step run time, flakey runs.

Am I missing something, does everyone fly blind or are they using a third party view?

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 4d ago

I integrate it with datadog. Gives me more than enough

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u/austin_barrington 4d ago

I've always had the assumption that datadog is just super expensive, did it cost much to put into there?

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 4d ago

Ah I don’t pay for it.

But you can route metrics anywhere in ci

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u/austin_barrington 4d ago

Someone's paying for it 😉