app-insights-event-action

Sometimes a DevOps engineer wants to see changes to the deployment infrastructure on the observability dashboard, so that the changes can be correlated with resource usages or increases in errors. This composite run steps GitHub Action is a rudimentary attempt to solve that challenge by allowing you to send events to Azure Application Insights. Each event will be sent with some default GitHub environment variables. Full example usage of this action can be seen in this repository.

Usage

      - name: "AppInsights: Begin Terraform"
        uses: syedhassaanahmed/app-insights-event-action@main
        with:
          instrumentation-key: "${{ secrets.APP_INSIGHTS_KEY }}"
          event-name: "begin-provision-azure"

      - name: "Terraform Apply"
        run: terraform apply -auto-approve

      - name: "AppInsights: End Terraform"
        uses: syedhassaanahmed/app-insights-event-action@main
        with:
          instrumentation-key: "${{ secrets.APP_INSIGHTS_KEY }}"
          event-name: "end-provision-azure"

Here is an example of measuring duration between above 2 events in App Insights

let events = customEvents
| project timestamp, name, run_number = toint(customDimensions.run_number);
let begins = events | where name == "begin-provision-azure" | project-rename beginTime = timestamp;
let ends = events | where name == "end-provision-azure" | project-rename endTime = timestamp;
begins | join ends on run_number
| project run_number, durationInSeconds = datetime_diff("second", endTime, beginTime)
| order by run_number
| render columnchart