Monitor GitHub Actions CI Failures and Create Linear Bug Reports

When a GitHub Actions workflow fails on a main branch, automatically retrieve the failure logs, identify the breaking change, and create a prioritized Linear bug report with full context for the on-call engineer.

How the workflow runs

The scenario uses specific integration tools at each step, while Metorial keeps access scoped and visible.

  1. 1

    Detect failing workflow runs

    List recent GitHub Actions runs on the main branch filtered to failed status to identify CI breakage.

    • github-actions.list_workflow_runs
  2. 2

    Retrieve failure details

    Fetch step-level job details for the failing run to pinpoint which step and job broke.

    • github-actions.get_workflow_run
  3. 3

    Download failure logs

    Get the log download URL and extract the relevant error output from the failing job.

    • github-actions.get_workflow_run_logs
  4. 4

    Identify the breaking commit

    List recent commits on the branch to correlate the failure with a specific code change.

    • github.list_commits
  5. 5

    Create a Linear bug report

    Open a high-priority Linear issue with the workflow name, failing step, log excerpt, and suspected commit.

    • linear.create_issue
  6. 6

    Alert the on-call engineer

    Send a Slack message to the on-call channel with a summary of the failure and a link to the Linear bug report.

    • slack.send_message

Integrations used in this scenario

github-actions

List Workflow Runs

List recent workflow runs filtered by branch and failure status.

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github-actions

Get Workflow Run

Retrieve detailed job and step-level failure information for a run.

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github-actions

Get Workflow Run Logs

Download logs for the failing job to identify the root cause.

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github

List Commits

List recent commits on the branch to identify the likely breaking change.

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linear

Create Issue

Create a high-priority Linear bug report with failure context and log excerpts.

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slack

Send Message

Alert the on-call engineer in Slack with a link to the Linear issue.

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Connected systems

Integration

GitHub Actions

Manage GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, runs, and jobs programmatically. Trigger, cancel, and re-run workflow runs, including re-running only failed jobs. List and download workflow artifacts and job logs. Create, update, and delete encrypted secrets and plaintext variables at repository, organization, and environment levels. Manage self-hosted and GitHub-hosted runners, including registration tokens, labels, and runner groups. Configure Actions permissions and policies, such as allowed actions, default GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, and fork pull request approval settings. Inspect and delete workflow caches. Retrieve workflow and run usage/billing statistics. Customize OIDC subject claim templates for cloud provider federation. Subscribe to webhook events for workflow runs, jobs, check runs, check suites, and deployments.

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Integration

GitHub

Manage repositories, issues, and pull requests. Create and configure branches, star repositories, review code, and merge changes. Automate CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, manage workflow runs, secrets, and artifacts. Track issues with labels, milestones, and assignees. Search across code, repositories, issues, and users. Manage organizations, teams, and memberships. Create and manage projects, gists, packages, deployments, and environments. Access security alerts including code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot alerts. Read and write file contents in repositories. Manage webhooks, notifications, and codespaces.

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Integration

Linear

Create, read, update, and delete issues across teams with support for priorities, labels, assignees, due dates, and workflow states. Manage projects that group related issues, and organize work into time-boxed cycles (sprints). Create and manage documents, comments, and file attachments. Search issues using vector similarity or rich filters. Configure teams, workflow states, and labels. Track customers and link them to issues. Subscribe to real-time webhooks for changes to issues, projects, cycles, comments, documents, and more.

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Slack

Slack: connect with bot OAuth or user OAuth. Send, update, delete, and schedule messages; list and cancel scheduled messages; open DMs and group DMs; manage conversations, members, files, reactions, pins, bookmarks, reminders, user groups, and user status; search messages and files with user scopes; and retrieve user, conversation, and workspace info.

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Expected outcomes

Outcome 1

CI failures are escalated to Linear and Slack within minutes of occurring

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Outcome 2

On-call engineers receive full context without manually inspecting CI logs

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Outcome 3

Breaking commits are identified automatically to speed up root cause analysis

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Outcome 4

Main branch health is tracked through structured Linear issues

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