You're reading from Accelerate DevOps with GitHub Enhance software delivery performance with GitHub Issues, Projects, Actions, and Advanced Security

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813358

Length 540 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Michael Kaufmann

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Table of Contents (31) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration

2. Chapter 1: Metrics That Matter FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Plan, Track, and Visualize Your Work

4. Chapter 3: Teamwork and Collaborative Development

5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Work: Collaborate from Anywhere

6. Chapter 5: The Influence of Open and Inner Source on Software Delivery Performance

7. Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices

8. Chapter 6: Automation with GitHub Actions

9. Chapter 7: Running Your Workflows

10. Chapter 8: Managing Dependencies Using GitHub Packages

11. Chapter 9: Deploying to Any Platform

12. Chapter 10: Feature Flags and the Feature Lifecycle

13. Chapter 11: Trunk-Based Development

14. Part 3: Release with Confidence

15. Chapter 12: Shift Left Testing for Increased Quality

16. Chapter 13: Shift-Left Security and DevSecOps

17. Chapter 14: Securing Your Code

18. Chapter 15: Securing Your Deployments

19. Part 4: Software Architecture

20. Chapter 16: Loosely Coupled Architecture and Microservices

21. Chapter 17: Empower Your Teams

22. Part 5: Lean Product Management

23. Chapter 18: Lean Product Development and Lean Startup

24. Chapter 19: Experimentation and A|B Testing

25. Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

26. Chapter 20: GitHub – The Home for All Developers

27. Chapter 21: Migrating to GitHub

28. Chapter 22: Organizing Your Teams

29. Chapter 23: Transform Your Enterprise

30. Other Books You May Enjoy

Monitoring and troubleshooting

If you have problems with your self-hosted runners, there are several things that can help you when troubleshooting.

Checking the status of the runners

You can check the status of your runners under Settings | Actions | Runners. The status of a runner can be Idle, Active, or Offline. If the runner status is Offline, the machine could be down or not connected to the network, or the self-hosted runner application might not be running on the machine.

Reviewing the application log files

Log files are kept on the runner in the _diag folder in the runner's root directory. You can review the runner application log files in _diag. The application log filenames begin with Runner_ and have a UTC timestamp appended to them:

Runner_20210927-065249-utc.log

Reviewing the job log files

The job log files are also located in _diag. Each job has its own log. The application log filenames begin with Worker_ and also have a UTC timestamp appended...