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GitHub Integration with Dash0

This integration leverages OpenTelemetry Tracing to provide actionable insights into pipeline performance and reliability.

The Dash0 GitHub integration empowers development teams to enhance their workflows by seamlessly integrating observability and monitoring into their CI/CD pipelines.

• OpenTelemetry CI/CD Action
• Github Actions Observability Blog

Key Features

• Enhanced Observability: Integrate OpenTelemetry tracing to track and visualize the flow of actions within your GitHub workflows.
• Pipeline Monitoring: Gain deep insights into the health and performance of your CI/CD pipelines.
• Error Tracking and Debugging: Quickly identify and resolve issues in your GitHub Actions workflows.
• Performance Metrics: Monitor and optimize build times, test durations, and deployment efficiency.

Use Case

A team running GitHub Actions can:

1. Trace each workflow step (e.g., building, testing, and deploying).
2. Monitor key metrics such as test execution time and deployment frequency.
3. Use Dash0's dashboard to visualize the end-to-end pipeline performance.

Step 1

Setup two secretes in GitHub:

• DASH0_OTLP_ENDPOINT grpc://{{endpoint_otlp_grpc}}
• DASH0_OTLP_HEADERS Authorization=Bearer {{token}},Dash0-Dataset={{dataset}}

Step 2

Create a new workflow file in your repository’s GitHub Actions workflow directory .github/workflows/ with the following content: