GitHub Actions Observability with Scout
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CI/CD pipelines are critical infrastructure. Builds slow down over weeks, flaky tests waste developer time, and when a pipeline breaks, diagnosing the root cause means clicking through GitHub's UI one run at a time.
The Scout OpenTelemetry CI/CD Action solves this by exporting your GitHub Actions workflow runs as OpenTelemetry traces. Each workflow becomes a trace, each job becomes a child span, and each step becomes a span within its job. You get the same structured observability for your pipelines that you already have for your applications.