Github Rate Limit Prometheus Exporter

In this post, you will learn on repository Github Rate Limit Prometheus Exporter Prometheus exporter which scrapes GitHub API for the rate limits used by PAT/GitHub App.

Helm Chart with values and deployment can be found here

For the exporter to run you need to supply either a GitHub Token or a set of GitHub App credentials, alongside a type of authentication to use(pat/app)

The metrics can then be represented on a grafana dashboard:

Docker:

PAT

docker run -d \
    -e GITHUB_AUTH_TYPE=PAT \
    -e GITHUB_APP_NAME=name_of_my_app
    -e GITHUB_TOKEN=my_token \
    -p 2112:2112 \
    ghcr.io/kalgurn/grl-exporter:latest

GitHub APP

docker run -d \
    -e GITHUB_AUTH_TYPE=APP \
    -e GITHUB_APP_ID=my_app_id \
    -e GITHUB_INSTALLATION_ID=my_app_installation_id \
    -e GITHUB_APP_NAME=name_of_my_app
    -e GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH=/tmp
    -v $PWD/path_to/key.pem:/tmp/key.pem
    -p 2112:2112 \
    ghcr.io/kalgurn/grl-exporter:latest