PagerDuty Change Events

PagerDuty Change Events GitHub Action

This action creates a PagerDuty change event. Change events help you track deploys, build completion, configuration updates, etc., providing contextual information that is critical during incident triage.

Getting Started

Before you can use this action you'll need to have a PagerDuty service configured with an integration. To add a GitHub integration to your service, follow these instructions. Upon completing those steps you should receive an integration key that you can use with this action.

Currently only push and pull_request events are handled, and for pull_request events, a change event will only be created when the pull request is merged. You can choose which event and which branches change events should be created for in your workflow configuration.

Inputs

`integration-key`

Required The integration key that identifies the PagerDuty service the change was made to, added as a GitHub secret for the repository.

`custom-event`

Custom event summary. If provided the GitHub event type is ignored and the given summary used. A link to the run is included in the change event.

Example usage

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
      - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - master
      - main
    types:
      - closed

jobs:
  send-pagerduty-change-event:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Sending PagerDuty Change Event
    steps:
      - name: Create a change event
        uses: PagerDuty/pagerduty-change-events-action@master
        with:
          integration-key: ${{ secrets.PAGERDUTY_CHANGE_INTEGRATION_KEY }}

Custom event

Custom events can for instance be used for notifying about the result of a job:

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
      - main

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Deploying the application (dummy)
    steps:
      - name: Dummy step
        run: echo "Dummy deployment"

  notification:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Notify PagerDuty
    needs: [deploy]
    if: always()
    steps:
      # make deploy job status available
      # see https://github.com/marketplace/actions/workflow-status-action
      - uses: martialonline/workflow-status@v3
        id: check
      - name: Create a change event
        uses: PagerDuty/pagerduty-change-events-action@master
        with:
          integration-key: ${{ secrets.PAGERDUTY_CHANGE_INTEGRATION_KEY }}
          custom-event: Deployment ${{ steps.check.outputs.status }}