django GitHub Actions Analytics

This panel presents six key performance indicators (KPIs) related to GitHub Actions usage and performance. Each indicator provides a metric with comparison to a reference period, helping you understand trends and changes in your CI/CD pipeline efficiency.

Indicators Explained:

• Average Execution Time: The average time in seconds that workflows take to complete, compared to a previous period.
• Success Rate: The percentage of workflow runs that completed successfully, compared to a previous period.
• Total Runs: The total number of workflow runs, compared to a previous period.
• Successful Runs: The total number of successful workflow completions, compared to a previous period.
• Failed Runs: The total number of failed workflow runs, compared to a previous period.
• Total Run Time: The cumulative execution time of all workflows in hours, compared to a previous period.

Green indicators with an upward arrow generally indicate positive trends, while red indicators with a downward arrow might highlight areas for improvement. However, interpretation depends on the specific metric - for example, a decrease in failed runs is positive despite showing as a negative percentage.

This chart displays the history of GitHub Actions runs over time, showing both successful and failed runs. The stacked bars represent the total volume of GitHub Actions activity in your repositories.

Each bar is divided into two segments: green bars represent successful runs, while red bars indicate failed runs. This visualization allows you to track the overall workflow activity and identify potential patterns or issues in your CI/CD pipeline.

Benefits and Interpretations:

• Activity Monitoring: Track the volume of GitHub Actions runs over time to understand your team's CI/CD usage patterns.
• Failure Detection: Quickly identify periods with higher failure rates that might require investigation.
• Release Correlation: Correlate spikes in action runs with major releases or development milestones.

This chart presents the average execution duration of GitHub Actions workflows over time. The bar height represents the average time in seconds that actions took to complete for each period.

Monitoring execution times helps identify performance trends, potential bottlenecks, or optimization opportunities in your CI/CD pipeline. Longer execution times might indicate increased workflow complexity, resource constraints, or potential issues with specific actions.

Benefits and Interpretations:

• Performance Tracking: Monitor the efficiency of your GitHub Actions workflows over time.
• Resource Optimization: Identify opportunities to optimize workflows with consistently high execution times.
• Cost Management: Since GitHub Actions billing is often based on execution time, this chart can help track and manage CI/CD costs.

This table breaks down GitHub Actions metrics by individual workflow, providing detailed performance data for each type of automation in your repositories.

Columns Explained:

• Workflow: The name of the GitHub Actions workflow.
• Total Runs: The total number of executions for this workflow.
• Successful Runs: The number of successful completions for this workflow.
• Failed Runs: The number of failed executions for this workflow.
• Success Rate: The percentage of runs that completed successfully.
• Average Duration: The average execution time in seconds for this workflow.

This table helps identify which specific workflows might be problematic or inefficient, allowing targeted improvements to your CI/CD pipeline.

This chart displays the average execution duration in seconds for different workflows in your GitHub Actions.

Longer bars indicate workflows that take more time to execute. This visualization helps identify workflows that might need optimization or have performance issues.

Benefits and Interpretations:

• Performance Analysis: Quickly identify which workflows consume the most execution time.
• Resource Optimization: Target optimization efforts on workflows with the longest durations.
• Cost Management: Since GitHub Actions billing is often based on execution time, this can help manage CI/CD costs.

This chart shows the success rates as percentages for different workflows in your GitHub Actions.

Higher percentages indicate more reliable workflows, while lower percentages might indicate issues that need addressing. A 100% success rate is ideal, showing complete reliability of the workflow.

Benefits and Interpretations:

• Reliability Assessment: Quickly see which workflows are most reliable vs. which are prone to failures.
• Quality Control: Track success rates as a key metric for CI/CD quality across different workflows.
• Issue Prioritization: Focus debugging efforts on workflows with the lowest success rates.

This table displays key metrics for GitHub Actions grouped by the author who triggered the workflow runs. It provides insights into each contributor's usage patterns and success rates.

Columns Explained:

• Author: The GitHub user who triggered the workflow runs.
• Total Runs: The total number of workflow runs initiated by this author.
• Successful Runs: The number of successful workflow completions for this author.
• Failed Runs: The number of failed workflow runs for this author.
• Success Rate: The percentage of workflow runs that completed successfully.
• Average Duration: The average execution time in seconds for this author's workflow runs.

This table helps identify patterns in workflow usage and reliability across different team members, potentially highlighting training opportunities or different development approaches.

This table presents GitHub Actions metrics organized by repository, showing how CI/CD workflows perform across different projects.

Columns Explained:

• Repository: The GitHub repository where the workflows are defined.
• Total Runs: The total number of workflow runs in this repository.
• Successful Runs: The number of successful workflow completions in this repository.
• Failed Runs: The number of failed workflow runs in this repository.
• Success Rate: The percentage of workflow runs that completed successfully.
• Average Duration: The average execution time in seconds for workflows in this repository.

This table helps compare CI/CD performance across different repositories, potentially highlighting which projects have more reliable pipelines or which might need optimization.