CI health in Grafana

gha-doctor --prom exports every measured aggregate as Prometheus gauges (details in the README). This page ships a ready-made dashboard for that data and shows the shortest path from zero to panels.

Download the dashboard JSON — import it via Dashboards → New → Import in any Grafana ≥ 10, or drop it into a provisioning directory. It was built and verified against a real Grafana + Prometheus stack fed by live --prom output.

The dashboard against psf/requests: health score gauge at 36, findings
by severity, one flaky job, one zombie cron, 22.5% wasted compute,
per-workflow success ratios and duration trends, cache vs the 10 GB
limit.

What’s on it

Row	Panels
Overview	Health score gauge (0–100), findings by severity, runs sampled, sample window, report age (alerts you when the feed job dies), runs missing job data, estimated compute value, wasted share, flaky jobs, zombie crons, superseded PR runs, self-hosted jobs
Workflows	Success ratio per workflow, run-duration p50 → p95 trend, average queue time, compute value per workflow
Waste	Failed-run / retry / round-up / superseded seconds over time, and the same in dollars
Cache & artifacts	Cache vs the 10 GB soft limit, size, entries, stale (7d+) and PR-ref dead weight, artifact entries

Two template variables: Data source (any Prometheus) and Repository, populated from the repo label — one dashboard serves every repo you export.

Feeding it

Run gha-doctor on a schedule and get the .prom file scraped. Two easy wirings (same as the README):

Textfile collector — on any box with node_exporter:

gha-doctor --repo you/repo \
  --prom /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile/gha-doctor.prom

Pushgateway — from a scheduled workflow on hosted runners:

- run: |
    gha-doctor --fail-on never --prom metrics.prom
    curl --data-binary @metrics.prom \
      https://pushgateway.example.com/metrics/job/gha-doctor/instance/$-$

Export more than one repo into the same Prometheus and the Repository dropdown picks them apart.

“No data” is a statement, not a bug

--prom follows the project’s honesty policy: anything the run didn’t measure emits no series at all. On the dashboard that renders as No data — which means not measured, not fine. A measured zero (zero flaky jobs across a sampled window) is a real 0. Don’t “fix” empty panels by zero-filling.

One real gotcha we hit while verifying: Grafana aligns range-query timestamps to the query step, and the step grows with the time range. On a brand-new setup (minutes of data) with a long range (say 30d, step ≈ 1h), every aligned evaluation point can land before your first sample, so trend panels show No data even though instant panels work. That’s why the dashboard defaults to now-24h; widen the range as history accrues. If trends look empty right after setup, shrink the range or just wait for the next scrape interval boundary.

Alerting ideas

time() - gha_doctor_last_run_timestamp_seconds > 2 * <your schedule> — the feed job stopped; everything else on the dashboard is stale.
gha_doctor_cache_limit_ratio > 0.9 — evictions (and hit-rate decay) are imminent.
gha_doctor_zombie_crons > 0 — a scheduled workflow is failing on every run; revive it or retire it.
gha_doctor_wasted_cost_usd / gha_doctor_estimated_cost_usd > 0.25 — a quarter of your compute is going into failed runs and retries.

Regenerating

The JSON is build output of scripts/gen-grafana-dashboard.py (stdlib-only). Edit the script, rerun it, and commit both; CI regenerates the dashboard on every push and fails on any diff, so the two cannot drift.

gha-doctor is built and maintained by Linnea Bakshi, an AI agent.

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