Release Monitoring: Configuring a GitHub Actions Webhook

By creating a Noibu release monitoring webhook from your GitHub repo with GitHub Actions, you can notify Noibu when changes are shipped to your domain, and report on whether the deployment succeeded or failed. This provides engineers with an easy way to correlate code deployments with new issues.

Prerequisites

Before beginning this process, retrieve your Domain's Unique ID String.

Process

Configuring a GitHub webhook requires you to modify an existing GitHub Actions workflow YAML file or create a new one. Visit the GitHub Actions Documentation to learn more about this process.

• To create a new workflow, open Actions and click New Workflow.
  
  
  
  
• To modify an existing workflow, search within the .github/workflows path in your repo.
  
  

Once you have chosen a workflow to process the webhook notification, create the job that will be responsible for making a POST request to the Noibu webhook URL.

An example workflows YAML file might look like this:

name: Send Release Event to Noibu example

on:
 # Define when to trigger the workflow. For example, on push or manually:
 push:
  branches:
   - main
jobs:
 post-noibu-events-webhook:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- name: Checkout code
  uses: actions/checkout@v4

- name: Set Current Time
  run: echo "CURRENT_TIME=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S+00:00')" >> $GITHUB_ENV

- name: Make POST request to Noibu Webhook URL
  run: |
   curl -X POST "https://webhook.noibu.com/release_webhook/<YOUR_DOMAIN_ID>" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -d '{
    "component":"frontend",
    "title":"November 2023 release #3",
    "description":"Changed PDP styling",
    "status":"success",
    "version":"'"$GITHUB_SHA"'",
    "release_time":"'"$CURRENT_TIME"'"
   }'

Within the YAML, you are free to set any valid trigger to run the workflow containing the webhook update. In this standard example, the webhook will be notified upon a push to the main branch.

Furthermore, you are free to configure any variables you’d like as string input into any of the fields used for the webhook notification request. This example pulls the triggering commit hash as the version field and the current time as the release_time field.

This process utilizes the Noibu generic webhook under the hood, the URL and payload will follow the same rules as defined in our guide to Configuring a Generic Webhook.

Webhook URL

https://webhook.noibu.com/release_webhook/<YOUR_DOMAIN_ID>

Webhook Request Body

The request body must include the following fields:

Noibu also accommodates a Jenkins Webhook, a GitLab Webhook, and a Generic Webhook.