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Maybe don’t call a reliability tool “GitHub Actions for X”, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence? Having used relatively high frequency GitHub Actions for a
by oefrha 3y ago
Maybe don’t call a reliability tool “GitHub Actions for X”, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence? Having used relatively high frequency GitHub Actions for alerts, I get more random errors from Actions (Actions down, failed git pull, failed cache pull, etc.) than actual alerts.
- smcleod 3y agoI was thinking just the same! When I think of Github Actions I think of horrific inline YAML scripting, missing core functionality, clunky UI and frequent outages.
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- talboren 3y agolol yea, you’re definitely right. we should’ve mentioned something like “GitHub actions but reliable”. actually our readme mentions datadog workflow automation as a reference though people are less familiar with it
- shahargl 3y agoyea the original thought was "Datadog Workflow Automation" but too many people told us they don't know it.
- code_biologist 3y agoI've used Datadog as an application engineer for years (not an expert / ops person) and I just learned about Workflow Automation from this post... so good choice.