mnthomson / otel-action

Create & upload OpenTelemetry traces of a GitHub actions workflow run to an OTLP compatible endpoint

OpenTelemetry Action

Upload OpenTelemetry traces of a GitHub actions workflow run

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About

Running otel-action at the end of a GitHub workflow will upload OpenTelemetry spans for each job (and job step) to an OTel compatible endpoint. This provides observability into CI pipelines, and provides a quick method to find offending commits that are the root cause of a CI job becoming slower.

Below is an example trace from this repository's test workflow being viewed in Honeycomb.io's UI (they have an awesome free-forever tier)!

Example usage

- name: Upload OTEL traces
  uses: MNThomson/otel-action@master
  with:
    endpoint: ${{ secrets.ENDPOINT }}
    headers: ${{ secrets.HEADERS }}
    service_name: "MyDatasetName"

Checkout the test.yml worflow as well.

otel-action's Issues

Add job step "uses" to output

Potentially have to download & parse the workflow YAML.

Publish Docker Image to GHCR

Support GitLab workflows

Workflow end time is Time.Now()

No matter when the workflow was run, the endtime will always be the present time. Instead this should check if an entire exists, otherwise use current time.