How it works

Integrating GitHub and Slack seamlessly, Actioner brings GitHub Actions workflows notifications to Slack. You can get updated with automated notifications when a workflow runs and track their status in your preferred Slack channel and identify where failures and slowdowns occur.

You can select your preferred channels to get updates on different workflow statuses. You can also set automated Slack DMs to get whenever you trigger a workflow, whether in GitHub or in Slack.

You can see the progress of your runs and track the live status of each individual job - whether they succeed or fail- in one place under the thread message that shows the status of the triggered GitHub Actions workflow.

Push GitHub Action notifications to Slack

To begin using GitHub Actions workflows in Slack follow these steps;

1. Install GitHub Actions for Slack to your Slack workspace and connect to your GitHub instance.
2. ‍Subscribe to workflow runs, enter select repository owner and choose repositories. This creates a webhook on GitHub and subscribes to the events of the workflow and job runs in the selected repository.
3. ‍Select channel for workflow runs, enter repository owner and choose repositories. Then select a GitHub workflow and the channel that you want to get notified in.

Whenever a selected workflow is run, by you or another user, in Slack or in GitHub, Actioner will notify you of the run result on the selected channel.
💡If you want to get notifications for different workflows in different channels, you can re-run this workflow.

If you are looking to manually run your workflows in Slack, check Running GitHub Actions workflows in Slack use case.

Setting additional workflow notifications

1. Call GitHub Actions app in Slack (type /github-actions in any message box).
2. From the workflow list, find Select channel for workflow runs.
3. On the prompting form, enter repository owner and choose repositories. Then select a GitHub Action and the channel that you want to get notified in. Whenever a selected workflow is run, by you or another user, in Slack or in GitHub, Actioner will notify you of the run result on the selected channel.

💡If you want to get notifications for different workflows in different channels, you can re-run this workflow.

How to get started as an app user

If you are invited to use this app with your coworkers, you only need to connect your GitHub account by granting access to Actioner. After connecting, you’ll start getting notifications as direct messages whenever you run a workflow, whether in GitHub or in Slack.

You can track the live status of your workflows in Slack and the live status of each individual jobs of the triggered workflow.

To trigger your workflow manually in Slack, check Running GitHub Actions workflows in Slack use case.

If you are looking to get notified of different workflow statuses in different Slack channels, follow the steps above for Setting additional workflow notifications.