GitHub Monitoring

Monitor the GitHub commits and code changes to avoid build failures with our ready-to-install plugin integration.

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As application development is becoming more complex, major and minor changes need to be monitored to trace back problems to their source. Also, in case a deployment fails, it is important to know which change caused it and when it was integrated into the source code. This ready-to-install plugin helps monitor all activities in your GitHub repository and be instantly notified on new code changes.

Performance Metrics

Some of the metrics provided for this plugin include:

  • Notifications
  • Deployments
  • Milestones
  • Releases
  • Pull Requests
  • Issues and Issues comments
  • Downloads
  • Merges
  • Commits and Commit comments
  • Subscription
  • Contributors
  • Subscribers
  • Events
  • Collaborators

Prerequisites

  • Make sure a username and personal access token is created to monitor your GitHub account. Create a token with read access if you don't have one yet.
  • Our Linux server monitoring agent should be installed in the server.
  • While adding a plugin, the plugin name and its folder name inside the Site24x7 agent should be identical.

Plugin Installation

  • Download and install the latest version of the Site24x7 Linux agent in the server where you plan to run the plugin. If it is installed successfully, you will see a Linux server monitor in the Site24x7 Control Panel. This confirms that the agent is able to communicate with our data center.
  • Download the git_hub.py and git_hub.cfg files from our GitHub repository.
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/git_hub/git_hub.py
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/git_hub/git_hub.cfg
  • In the 'git_hub.cfg' file, add the username, personal access token, and the repository(s) that needs to be monitored. Sample configuration:
    [display_name]
    user_name="user@github"
    personal_access_token="123ascejsfnkl"
    repo_name="Sample_repo1"
    where display_name denotes the monitor name to be displayed in the Site24x7 web client and 'repo_name' denotes the repository name that needs to be monitored.
  • After completing the configuration, please execute the following command to ensure data is obtained.
    run "python git_hub.py --repo_name='Sample_repo1'"
  • Create a folder with the name 'git_hub', under the Site24x7 Linux agent plugin directory '/opt/site24x7/monagent/plugins/' and place the 'git_hub.py' and 'git_hub.cfg' files under '/opt/site24x7/monagent/plugins/git_hub'.
The agent will automatically execute the plugin within five minutes and send performance data to the Site24x7 data center.

View Data in the Site24x7 Web Client

  1. Log in to Site24x7 and go to Server > Plugins > click on the name of the plugin monitor.
  2. You will be able to view GitHub events.

Plugin Contribution

Feel free to contribute to our existing plugin and come up with suggestions or feedback on our Community.

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