GitHub

Monitor GitHub repositories and Actions — workflow run status, job durations, open issues, and pull request counts — using a GitHub Prometheus exporter.

Pattern: github_exporter → Prometheus scrape → xScaler remote_write

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Prerequisites

• GitHub account with a Personal Access Token (repo scope)
• xScaler tenant credentials (token + tenant ID)

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Option A — Prometheus Exporter

docker run -d \
  -p 9171:9171 \
  -e GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token \
  -e GITHUB_REPOS=org/repo1,org/repo2 \
  infinityworks/github-exporter

Add to prometheus.yml:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: github
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9171']

remote_write:
  - url: https://euw1-01.m.xscalerlabs.com/api/v1/push
    authorization:
      credentials: <token>
    headers:
      X-Scope-OrgID: <tenant-id>

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Option B — Grafana Alloy

prometheus.scrape "github" {
  targets    = [{"__address__" = "localhost:9171"}]
  forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.xscaler.receiver]
  scrape_interval = "60s"
}

prometheus.remote_write "xscaler" {
  endpoint {
    url = "https://euw1-01.m.xscalerlabs.com/api/v1/push"
    authorization {
      type        = "Bearer"
      credentials = "<token>"
    }
    headers = { "X-Scope-OrgID" = "<tenant-id>" }
  }
}

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Option C — OpenTelemetry Collector

receivers:
  prometheus:
    config:
      scrape_configs:
        - job_name: github
          static_configs:
            - targets: ['localhost:9171']
          scrape_interval: 60s

processors:
  batch:
    timeout: 10s

exporters:
  otlphttp/xscaler:
    endpoint: https://euw1-01.m.xscalerlabs.com
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer <token>"
      X-Scope-OrgID: "<tenant-id>"
    compression: gzip

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers:  [prometheus]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters:  [otlphttp/xscaler]

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Logs

GitHub audit log — stream via the GitHub Audit Log API and forward to xScaler using an OTel Collector.

Key metrics

Metric	Description
github_repo_open_issues_count	Open issues per repository
github_repo_forks_count	Fork count per repository
github_repo_stargazers_count	Star count per repository
github_repo_size_kb	Repository size in KB
github_workflow_run_duration_seconds	Duration of workflow runs
github_workflow_job_status	Status of workflow jobs