Slack Workflow Status

Forked from the original repo since at the time of writing (2024-02-06) the original still wasn't using Node 20, and the previous version of Node was getting deprecated and causing warnings.

This action will post workflow status notifications into your Slack channel. The notification includes the name of the Actor, Event, Branch, Workflow Name, Status and Run Durations. This action can optionally include the status and duration of individual jobs in a workflow to quickly help you identify where failures and slowdowns occur.

Action Inputs

Name	Required	Description
slack_webhook_url	required	Create a Slack Webhook URL using the Incoming Webhooks App. It is recommended that you create a new secret on your repo SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL for holding this value, and passing it to the action with ${{secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}}.
repo_token	required	A token is automatically available in your workflow secrets var. ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}. You can optionally send an alternative self-generated token.
include_jobs	optional	When set to true, include individual job status and durations in the slack notification. When false only the event status and workflow status lines are included. When set to on-failure — individual job status is reported only if workflow failed. Default is true.
jobs_to_fetch	optional	Sets the number of jobs to fetch (for workflows with big number of jobs). Default is 30.
include_commit_message	optional	When set to true, include the workflow head commit message title in the slack notification. Default is false.
channel	optional	Accepts a Slack channel name where you would like the notifications to appear. Overrides the default channel created with your webhook.
name	optional	Allows you to provide a name for the slack bot user posting the notifications. Overrides the default name created with your webhook.
icon_emoji	optional	Allows you to provide an emoji as the slack bot user image when posting notifications. Overrides the default image created with your webhook. Emoji Code Cheat Sheet
icon_url	optional	Allows you to provide a URL for an image to use as the slack bot user image when posting notifications. Overrides the default image created with your webhook.

Usage

To use this action properly, you should create a new job at the end of your workflow that needs all other jobs in the workflow. This ensures that this action is only run once all jobs in your workflow are complete.

This action requires read permission of actions scope. You should assign a job level actions permission if workflow level actions permission is set none.

name: World Greeter
on:
  push:
    branches: [ master, staging ]
jobs:
  job-1:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Say Hello
        run: echo "Hello"
  job-2:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Say World
        run: echo "World"
  slack-workflow-status:
    if: always()
    name: Post Workflow Status To Slack
    needs:
      - job-1
      - job-2
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # actions.read permission is required.
    permissions:
      actions: 'read'
    steps:
      - name: Slack Workflow Notification
        uses: Gamesight/slack-workflow-status@master
        with:
          # Required Input
          repo_token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
          slack_webhook_url: ${{secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}}
          # Optional Input
          channel: '#anthony-test-channel'
          name: 'Anthony Workflow Bot'
          icon_emoji: ':poop:'
          icon_url: 'https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/1701160?s=96&v=4'

This action can also be used for Pull Request workflows and will include pull request information in the notification.

developed and maintained by: gamesight.io