GitHub Input Plugin

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

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.11.0 Tags: applications OS support: all

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the 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