Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark • Hacker News Board

Re: Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark

#11

Post by elischleifer » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

kshmir wrote: post #9

elischleifer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say that broadly the ergonomics of the product are where it is most differentiated. Datadog's solution - feels very much like a datadog product - in that it's a giant dump of data you have to craft to tell a story. Not all pipelines are the same, their execution patterns are different and expectations for Pass/Fail/Cancel differ as well.

Tbh it looks the same as Datadog’s solution.

It's not just about the visuals - its about how the data can be sliced and diced. How your pull requests behave is a very different phenomenon than from how your main branch is behaving. You need to be able to tease this apart easily.

Re: Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark

#12

Post by dapirian » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 7:00 PM UTC

vladsanchez wrote: post #10

For cost and practical reasons, I'm seriously considering to adopt Dagger.io instead of GH Actions. Have you considered integration with other CI/CD pipeline engines or it doesn't matter as long as you git-commit? Thanks in advance.

Hey thanks for the Q: We will support other CI systems than GitHub Actions, but exact timeline of which and when is TBD.

With regards to cost, you can self-host GitHub Actions runners. Internally we use an autoscaling group of spot instances via k8s, which is much cheaper than GitHub-hosted runners. We actually didn't do it for the cost, we did it because we wanted a local cache to persist on machines during the day, for performance reasons. When cost is a factor, having an analytics system help you optimize your jobs is super important.

Re: Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark

#13

Post by jangofett27 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 7:10 PM UTC

Interested to see how different case studies pan out with this product. A mentor once told me that data is only useful if you can tell a compelling story. Hopefully soon something like this will make it easier to tell stories that help both business and engineering.

Re: Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark

#14

Post by simonw » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 7:20 PM UTC

kshmir wrote: post #6

Datadog already does this, how does this compare? Genuinely interested.

Can Datadog do this for $7/month? My understanding is that their pricing is quite a bit higher than that.

If you're already paying for Datadog the price probably isn't an issue for you though.

Re: Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark

#15

Post by mattmatheson » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

jangofett27 wrote: post #13

Interested to see how different case studies pan out with this product. A mentor once told me that data is only useful if you can tell a compelling story. Hopefully soon something like this will make it easier to tell stories that help both business and engineering.

"data is only useful if you can tell a compelling story"

I really like this - with this product, we're focusing on trying to tell the story and also make the data actionable. I'm hoping we can both show that there is a problem, as well as guide you to how to fix it. Otherwise, at the end of the day it's just colorful lines.