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I'm in the process of migrating to GitHub Actions and I'm looking for some way to get statistics on my GitHub workflows like

  • The average time it takes to build
  • The build success rate
  • The average time it takes to run tests
  • How all of these values change over time

I'm not finding anything in GitHub that provides these types of insights. Is there something out there or do I have to home grow something?

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Nothing like this exists in GitHub unfortunately. Insights will give you PR and merge statistics, but not build times or such. This would have to be implemented with a 3rd party tool or self-built.

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You can get what you need using the gh cli and awk, like this:

gh run list | awk -F'\t' 'NR>1 {print $(NF-2), $(NF-1)}'

where:

  • NR>1 remove the header

  • $(NF-2) and $(NF-1) refer to the second (-1) and the third (-2) column, starting from the end of the table, corresponding to the ID and ELAPSED columns.

It should return something like this:

7874944890 3m47s
7874879462 3m59s
7874758972 5m31s
7874637425 5m24s
7874341776 7m12s
7874341567 25s

Starting from this, you can adapt the awk command corresponding to your needs, and create a simple bash script to loop over it :)

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