Enhancing GitHub Actions Observability with OpenTelemetry Tracing
In the world of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), understanding the performance and behavior of your workflows is important. GitHub Actions have become a popular choice for automating software workflows, but monitoring and troubleshooting these pipelines can be challenging. Enter OpenTelemetry tracing - a powerful technology that can provide deep insights into your GitHub Actions workflows.
Implementing OpenTelemetry tracing for your GitHub Actions workflows is surprisingly simple. You can achieve this with a single workflow file that utilizes the corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action action.
To set it up, create a new workflow file in your repository’s GitHub Actions workflow directory .github/workflows/ with the following content:
This workflow is triggered when the specified workflows (i.e. CI) complete their execution. This ensures that tracing data is collected after the workflows have finished.
This step uses the corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action to export workflow telemetry in the form of an OpenTelemetry trace . The action requires several inputs:
