Show HN: Pipetrics – platform for GitHub Actions performance tracking

Show HN: Pipetrics – platform for GitHub Actions performance tracking(pipetrics.com)

5 points by davasny 234 days ago | 1 comment

I worked as DevOps Engineer at multiple companies of different sizes and almost everywhere at some point I had to work with CI/CD optimizations to make developers life better. The key problem I had was tracking down which pipeline was the problematic one and how could I see if my changes worked long-term.

Some time ago I built first version of Pipetrics based on typescript, github action cron job and mongodb used as datasource in Grafana. This approach had a lot of limitations, especially in Grafana integration, thus I decided to rework the project and make it available to everyone as SaaS platform.

Pipetrics in the form that I wanted to share with you today, is a first step in my new story. Today the platform is able to gather new and archival workflows from github and show it in the web app and Grafana dashboard. My plan for the next weeks is to implement advanced cost analysis with AI driven suggestions of optimizations (like using the cache or fixing its key).

kosciak9 234 days ago |

What I learned from this - was a user in beta - was to think about the GitHub Actions pricing, where they count each started minute. Not sure to what degree you can optimize for that, but an insight into the amount billed vs amount actually used is interesting at least.