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My workflows have been queued for at least four hours. It's a hotfix commit. GitHub Actions helped me a lot in synchronizing updates with other repositories automatically, but this time I have to manually apply it. Because I'm the first time expecting GitHub Actions incident, I was wondering that I ran out of my free quota for this month...

By the way, should GitHub send an email to the owner if any workflow has been delayed for an unreasonable time?

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Personally I'd rather they focus on the issue rather than negotiating with PR and legal to formulate an e-mail. If you rely on an external service and don't monitor it that's on you.

Have you tried monitoring GitHub Actions? It’s not uncommon for me to find that actions just don’t run for some reason. The docs are so incomplete that it’s hard for me to know why.

I can't say github actions but azure devops yes, I have an http endpoint I want stuff to hit with outcome and if it's not I get bugged. Anything is going to break, for external stuff this is the only way to estimate the cost/benefit of a contingency.

What a trite response.

The question was do they do a email if your job is delayed or late for whatever reason?

Not, hey why don't they email us all right now about the issue.

And no, it's not on me to monitor every little thing I rely on. Do you monitor kernel updates? I bet you don't. Besides that monitoring and logging for any provided service is exactly how one is supposed to monitor said external services so asking about monitoring options and being told, look buddy it's your job to monitor for this is just fucking rude.

Well, I do, but yes no one can monitor everything. The question was should they have sent an e-mail and I shared my preference whereas to their prioritization of resources. And yes, if something I wasn't monitoring breaks, I still assume responsibility, most especially if it affects production. And no it wasn't rude, you seem very sensitive.

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