Monitor GitHub Actions Workflow Failures and Alert Teams in Microsoft Teams

CI/CD failures often go unnoticed until developers check their repository manually. This workflow monitors GitHub Actions workflow runs for failures, retrieves the job details, and posts a structured alert to the relevant Microsoft Teams channel so the on-call engineer can respond immediately.

How the workflow runs

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

  1. 1

    List recent workflow runs for failures

    Query GitHub Actions for workflow runs across the target repositories and filter for recent failures or cancelled runs.

    • github:manage_workflow
  2. 2

    Retrieve repository and branch context

    Fetch the repository details and identify the affected branch to include in the alert message.

    • github:get_repository
    • github:list_branches
  3. 3

    Identify the correct Teams channel

    List Microsoft Teams channels to find the appropriate engineering or on-call channel for the alert.

    • microsoft-teams:list_channels
  4. 4

    Post the CI/CD failure alert

    Send a structured alert to the Teams channel with the workflow name, failed steps, branch, repository link, and a direct link to the run logs.

    • microsoft-teams:send_channel_message

Integrations used in this scenario

github

Manage Workflow

List recent workflow runs and filter for failed runs that have not yet been acknowledged.

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github

Get Repository

Retrieve repository details to include the repository name and default branch in the alert.

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github

List Branches

Identify the branch affected by the failed workflow run.

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microsoft-teams

List Channels

List available Teams channels to route the alert to the correct engineering or on-call channel.

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microsoft-teams

Send Channel Message

Post a structured CI/CD failure alert to the engineering Teams channel with run details and a direct link.

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Connected systems

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

Microsoft Teams

Send, read, update, and delete messages in channels and chats. Create and manage teams, channels, and memberships. Schedule and manage online meetings, access call recordings and transcripts. Monitor user presence status in real time. Manage shifts, schedules, and time-off requests for frontline workers. Install and configure apps and tabs within teams. Send activity feed notifications to users. Subscribe to change notifications (webhooks) for messages, chats, teams, channels, memberships, presence, and meeting events. Create and manage tags for @mentioning user groups. Generate usage reports and import historical message data from other platforms.

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Expected outcomes

Outcome 1

On-call engineers are alerted to CI/CD failures immediately rather than discovering them during manual checks

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Outcome 2

Failure alerts include full context—repository, branch, workflow, and log links—enabling fast diagnosis

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Outcome 3

Teams channels become the central hub for CI/CD status without requiring engineers to monitor GitHub directly

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