Hi @tboerger

I'm really interested in this exporter

I was wondering why you chose to use webhooks rather than API calls and i came across this issue.

Do you have any feedback to give on this choice ?

• is it reliable and stable as you were expecting ?
• no more problem with github api rates with your exporter ?

Also i wanted to export deployment statuses, have you already thought about that ? afaik it would not be possible to use any hook for that, do you think it would make us reaching the limit as well ?

Thank you

We have introduced this changed behavior for the workflow metrics to avoid running into api rate limit errors which works out pretty well. You are still able to run into api rate limit errors for the other metrics, but you just need to use a proper paging size and do not too often scrape the exporter to avoid that.

I haven't checked the API for deployments, but since those could also be a lot I would suggest to extend the webhook receiver and use this instead.

Great, thank you for the feedback !

After check others well known monitoring system for Github are using webhooks as well ;)