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Actions

Use the Actions tab to monitor GitHub Actions workflow runs.

To open the Actions tab, click DevOps > Actions.

Workflow runs are listed chronologically and display the following information.

  • Status: Indicates whether a workflow run is in progress, completed, queued, or skipped.
  • Title and workflow number: The name of the workflow and the number of the workflow run.
  • Branch: The branch that triggered the workflow run.
  • Event: The type of event that triggered the workflow run.
  • Timestamp: How long ago the workflow run occurred.

Middle-click a workflow run to open it in a new background tab. To open it in a new foreground tab, right-click it and click Open in New Tab. The right-click menu also includes available run actions, such as re-running, cancelling, deleting, and Open on GitHub.

Actions Run tab

Click a workflow run to view its details in the Actions Run tab. The Actions Run tab displays the following information.

  • Workflow: The type of workflow.
  • Branch: What branch the workflow was run on.
  • Trigger: What triggered the workflow to run.
  • Commit: The commit of the branch when the workflow ran.
  • Actor: Who causes the workflow to run.
  • Started: The timestamp of when the workflow started.
  • Updated: The time since the most recent activity of the workflow.
  • Duration: How long the workflow took to complete.
  • Attempt:

Click Cancel or Force Cancel to stop a running workflow run. Click Re-run to re-run a successful workflow run. Click Re-run Failed to re-run a failed workflow.

Each job of the workflow is listed chronologically and displays the status of the job and duration of the job. Click the Re-run Job icon to re-run the job. Click the Open on GitHub icon to open the job in a web browser.

Click a job to expand the job row and click the job again to close the job row. Click Expand All to expand all job rows and click Collapse All to close all job rows. The expanded job row displays the steps and logs of the job.

Filter actions

Click Show filters to open the filter panel. Use Status to filter workflow runs by completion status or result, and Event to filter by event type. Type a branch name in Branch or a username in Actor. Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on macOS) to open the panel and focus Branch.

The line above the list names each filter that is set. Click a name to open the panel and focus that control. Click Clear filters to clear all of the filters.

Run a workflow

To run a specific workflow, complete the following steps.

  1. In the Actions tab, click Run Workflow.
  2. In the Run Workflow dialog, click the Workflow dropdown to select the workflow to run.
  3. In the Branch/Ref field, enter the branch or ref to run the workflow against.
  4. Optional: Enter inputs in the Key and Value fields.
  5. Click Run.

Manage workflows

To manage workflows, click the Manage workflows icon. The Manage Workflows dialog lists each workflow and the workflow file path. Click Enable or Disable to activate or deactivate workflows.