GitHub Input Plugin

This plugin gathers information from projects and repositories hosted on GitHub.

[!NOTE] Telegraf also contains the webhook input plugin which can be used as an alternative method for collecting repository information.

⭐ Telegraf v1.11.0 🏷️ applications 💻 all

Global configuration options <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Gather repository information from GitHub hosted repositories.
[[inputs.github]]
  ## List of repositories to monitor
  repositories = [
    "influxdata/telegraf",
    "influxdata/influxdb"
  ]

  ## Github API access token.  Unauthenticated requests are limited to 60 per hour.
  # access_token = ""

  ## Github API enterprise url. Github Enterprise accounts must specify their base url.
  # enterprise_base_url = ""

  ## Timeout for HTTP requests.
  # http_timeout = "5s"

  ## List of additional fields to query.
  ## NOTE: Getting those fields might involve issuing additional API-calls, so please
  ##       make sure you do not exceed the rate-limit of GitHub.
  ##
  ## Available fields are:
  ##  - pull-requests -- number of open and closed pull requests (2 API-calls per repository)
  # additional_fields = []

Metrics

• github_repository
  • tags:
    • name - The repository name
    • owner - The owner of the repository
    • language - The primary language of the repository
    • license - The license set for the repository
  • fields:
    • forks (int)
    • open_issues (int)
    • networks (int)
    • size (int)
    • subscribers (int)
    • stars (int)
    • watchers (int)

When the internal input is enabled:

• internal_github
  • tags:
    • access_token - obfuscated reference to access token or "Unauthenticated"
  • fields:
    • limit - How many requests you are limited to (per hour)
    • remaining - How many requests you have remaining (per hour)
    • blocks - How many requests have been blocked due to rate limit

When specifying additional_fields the plugin will collect the specified properties. NOTE: Querying this additional fields might require to perform additional API-calls. Please make sure you don't exceed the query rate-limit by specifying too many additional fields. In the following we list the available options with the required API-calls and the resulting fields

• "pull-requests" (2 API-calls per repository)
  • fields:
    • open_pull_requests (int)
    • closed_pull_requests (int)

Example Output

github_repository,language=Go,license=MIT\ License,name=telegraf,owner=influxdata forks=2679i,networks=2679i,open_issues=794i,size=23263i,stars=7091i,subscribers=316i,watchers=7091i 1563901372000000000
internal_github,access_token=Unauthenticated closed_pull_requests=3522i,rate_limit_remaining=59i,rate_limit_limit=60i,rate_limit_blocks=0i,open_pull_requests=260i 1552653551000000000