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title: “GitHub” description: > GitHub Plugin

Summary

This plugin gathers data from GitHub to display information to the user in Grafana. We can help tech leaders answer such questions as:

• Is this month more productive than last?
• How fast do we respond to customer requirements?
• Was our quality improved or not?

Metrics

Here are some examples metrics using GitHub data:

• Avg Requirement Lead Time By Assignee
• Bug Count per 1k Lines of Code
• Commit Count over Time

Screenshot

Configuration

• Configuring GitHub via config-ui.

Sample Request

To collect data, select Advanced Mode on the Create Pipeline Run page and paste a JSON config like the following:

[
  [
    {
      "plugin": "github",
      "options": {
        "connectionId": 1,
        "repo": "lake",
        "owner": "merico-dev"
      }
    }
  ]
]

You can also trigger data collection by making a POST request to /pipelines.

curl 'http://localhost:8080/pipelines' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '
{
    "name": "github 20211126",
    "plan": [[{
        "plugin": "github",
        "options": {
            "connectionId": 1,
            "repo": "lake",
            "owner": "merico-dev"
        }
    }]]
}
'