Today we’re announcing a new webhook-based integration with one of our favorite companies, GitHub!
We believe an important aspect of creating healthy, sustainable projects is having good visibility into how well the people behind them are collaborating. At Keen IO, we’re pretty good at capturing JSON data from webhooks and making it useful, which is exactly what we’ve done with GitHub’s event stream. By allowing you to track and analyze GitHub data, we’ve made it easy for open source maintainers, community managers, and developers to view and discover more information to quantify the success of their projects.
This integration records everything from pushes, pull requests, and comments, to administrative events like project creation, team member additions, and wiki updates.
Once the integration is setup, you can use Keen IO’s visualization tools like the Explorer, Dashboards, and Compute API to dig into granular workflow metrics, like:
- Total number of first-time vs. repeat contributors over time
- Average comments per issue or commits per pull request, segmented by repo
- Pull request additions or deletions across all repositories, segmented by contributor
- Total number of pull requests that are actually merged into a given branch
Number of comments per day on Keen IO’s JavaScript library repos
Number of pull requests per day merged in Keen IO’s repos, “false” represents not merged
Percentage of different author associations of pull request reviews
Ready to try it out?
Assigning webhooks for each of these event types can be a tedious process, so we created a simple script to handle this setup work for you.
Check out the setup instructions here. With four steps, you will be set up and ready to rock in no time.
What metrics are you excited discover?
We’d love to hear from you! What metrics and charts would you like to see in a dashboard? What are challenges you have had with working with GitHub data? We’ve talked to a lot of open source maintainers, but we want to hear more from you. Feel free to respond to this blog post or send an email to opensource@keen.io. Also, if you build anything with your GitHub data, we’d love to see it! ❤
