README.md

gha-honeymarker Action

This GitHub Action adds a marker from your deploy workflows using Honeycomb's marker tool. It annotates the timeline with a marker and optional metadata from the workflow and will always send a marker for the deploy, even if the deploy failed.

gha-honeymarker should be added after a deploy indicating a successful change or otherwise. Every job will create a separate marker.

⚠️ Limitations:

• Only works on Linux hosts.
• If downloading honeymarker fails or if running honeymarker fails (i.e. a bug in honeymarker), the entire job will fail.

How to use it

Put the action in the beginning of your worflow:

- uses: naiduarvind/gha-honeymarker@main
  with:
    # Required: Honeycomb API key - needed to send markers.
    apikey: ${{ secrets.BUILDEVENTS_APIKEY }}

    # Required: The Honeycomb dataset to use.
    dataset: gha-honeymarker

    # Optional: The identifier for the marker.
    type: ${{ github.workflow }}

    # Optional: The message describing the marker.
    message: ${{ github.run-id }}-${{ job.status }} 


  # 'honeymarker add' should be placed after a deploy to indicate a change is successful or otherwise.

Inputs

Name	Required	Description	Type	Default
apikey	yes	API key used to communicate with the Honeycomb API.	string
dataset	yes	Honeycomb dataset to use.	string
type	no	Identifier for the marker (default = "workflow name").	string	${{ github.workflow }}
message	no	The message describing the marker (default = "job id-job status").	string	${{ github.run-id}}-${{ job.status }}

Outputs

No outputs are set as of now.

Example

This repository has its own workflow which will run every 15 minutes. See .github/workflows/integration.yaml.

This workflow will create the following marker in Honeycomb:

License

This Action is distributed under the terms of the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.