Review service latency when a GitHub Actions job changes
Give a slow job runtime context before you chase the wrong cause.
Trigger
Workflow Job State Changed
Triggers when the status, conclusion, timestamps, runner assignment, or step details of a specific GitHub Actions workflow job change between polls. The payload includes the full current job state, a list of which fields changed, and the previous status/conclusion values for easy comparison.
Action
Get Monitor Response Times
Tool to return response times for a specific monitor. use when you have a monitor id and need performance metrics over the last 24 hours.
Why this helps
A delayed workflow job can create speculation about whether the application is at fault.
- Narrows investigation sooner
- Avoids duplicate checking
- Adds signal to noisy CI events
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Better Stack once.
- 2Create a new automation from the portal.
- 3Ask Notis to retrieve response times when a monitored workflow job changes state.
- 4Choose Workflow Job State Changed and set a report channel.
- 5Test with a changing workflow job.
Questions about this workflow
Does it inspect every job automatically?
Use the configured GitHub job trigger and describe the related monitor in the prompt.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Better stack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Better stack actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create Escalation Policy
Tool to create a new escalation policy. use when defining how incidents should escalate across team members.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Heartbeat Group
Tool to create a new heartbeat group. use when you need to organize related heartbeat checks under a single, logical group. example prompt: "create a new heartbeat group named 'backend services'."
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Create Outgoing Webhook Integration
Tool to create a new outgoing webhook integration. use when you need to register an endpoint to receive event notifications from better stack.
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
Create Source Group
Tool to create a new source group. use when you have finalized the group name (and optional sort index) and need to organize related log sources under that group.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Delete Escalation Policy
Tool to delete an escalation policy by id. use when you need to permanently remove an existing escalation policy after confirming its id.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
Delete Source Group
Tool to delete a source group by id. use when you need to permanently remove an existing source group after confirming it is no longer needed.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
Get Heartbeat
Tool to get a single heartbeat by id. use when you need to fetch details of a specific heartbeat.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
Get Heartbeat Availability
Tool to retrieve availability summary for a specific heartbeat. use when you need availability metrics for a heartbeat within an optional date range.
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