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Use the Services Change Report Action to Bring Observability into GitHub

Use the Lightstep Services Change Report to bring observability data into your CI/CD workflow without having to leave GitHub.

Deploy Monitoring Integration
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Robin Whitmore
Updated Dec. 8, 2020
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Introduction

Use the Lightstep Services Change Report in your GitHub Action workflow to automatically compare performance of your system before and after a deployment, whenever a GitHub issue is labeled as a bug, and to report on best practice violations.

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5 mins

Step 1: Create a Deployment Marker

Register an OpenTelemetry attribute used to mark deployments in Lightstep.

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5 mins

Step 2: Add the Services Change Report Action to Your Workflow

Add the Lightstep Services Change Report action to your GitHub workflow to take a Snapshot of performance immediately after a deploy and compare it to performance from an earlier point in time.

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2 mins

Step 3: Use the Services Change Report Action in GitHub Issues

Use the Lightstep Services Change Report action to take a Snapshot when a specific label is applied to a GitHub issue.

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5 mins

Step 4: Use the Services Change Report Action to Report Violations

You can use the Services Change Report action to look for and report on violations in committed code.

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3 mins

Step 5: Integrate Rollbar and PagerDuty with the Services Change Report Action

Optionally add Rollbar and PagerDuty to the Lightstep Services Change Report Action.

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Finished!

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