looking for a github action

[Samyu09]

i have a github action. kittychiu/workflow-metrics@v0.4.7 that generates the metrics of the workflows running in repository
now i want to send these metrics to Open telemetry any idea on how can i t be done? or do we have any github action already present to do so

[svrnm]

Hey @Samyu09,

two answers to your question:

• There is a SIG that is currently looking into CI/CD + OpenTelemetry, you can find a project description and additional resources here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/projects/ci-cd.md (there's also a link to an issue for an opentelemetry collector for github actions)
• Since the github action you mentioned is written in Python, you might(!) be able to add the OTel Python SDK to it to emit telemetry to an otel collector/other backend

[svrnm]

Hey @Samyu09, feel free and go ahead to explain your workflow. The documents I pointed you to are what we have as of today, and what we are working on. You can join this community or comment on the appropriate issues and help with the metrics part.

[Samyu09]

@svrnm
so you mean there's no such github action till date to do so????
myflow goes like this github actions -> opentelemetry collector -> prometheus
but i wonder if theres some github action created already so as to send the workflow metrics. If no please let me know other ways to do so

[Samyu09]

As part of my work to analyze the workflows in my repo i would need some github action to proceed furthur. it'll help me if you could suggest any.

[svrnm]

there is none that I am aware of, but the ecosystem is large, so I might just miss it, check with the CI/CD community (link above, there is a slack channel), what they know about that topic, that's your best chance.

[Samyu09]

I have two questions to ask may be you can help .

1. Does Opentelemtry provide any option to convert traces to metrics which prometheus can read at backend. Since i found this action that can generate traces of workflow. inception-health/otel-export-trace-action@latest
   if yes please point me to the links

2. O regards to this action. inception-health/otel-export-trace-action@latest if the traces are sent to the opentelemetry where can i view the sent traces at the opentelemetry end.

@svrnm