gha-build-monitor

Adapter to give access to GitHub Actions status via the CatLight Protocol

How To

To use gha-build-monitor to monitor your GitHub Actions workflows, follow these steps :

1. Start the "proxy" locally

docker run --name gha-build-monitor -d -p 9901:9901 --restart unless-stopped ghcr.io/tsimbalar/gha-build-monitor

Open http://localhost:9901/ in a browser to check that the server is up and running.

2. Create a GitHub Access Token

You need a Personal Access Token (PAT) with the repo scope so that we can retrieve status information of your GitHub Actions.

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=repo&description=gha-build-monitor
2. Create a token with the scope repo
3. Copy the token

3. Connecting Catlight to gha-build-monitor

In CatLight, you need to :

1. Add new connection
2. choose "CatLight-compatible"
3. Log in with :

• Url : http://localhost:9901/builds
• "Use token"
• paste your token

4. Connect

4. Choose the workflows you want to track

1. Select the GitHub Actions workflows you want to monitor
2. Connect

5. Profit

Get notified about new builds, failing builds etc

FAQ

How to upgrade

If you followed the previous instructions, you should be able to run those commands :

docker stop gha-build-monitor
docker rm gha-build-monitor
docker pull ghcr.io/tsimbalar/gha-build-monitor:latest
docker run --name gha-build-monitor -d -p 9901:9901 --restart unless-stopped ghcr.io/tsimbalar/gha-build-monitor

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Roadmap

This is still an early version (v0.*).

Here are some things that will probably be added before v1 :

• retrieving authors/contributors of each workflow run