Continuous Testing and CI GitHub Actions

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Overview

GitHub Release

Trigger Synthetic tests from your GitHub workflows with the Datadog CI Synthetics command.

Setup

To get started:

Add your Datadog API and Application Keys as secrets to your GitHub repository. For more information, see API and Application Keys.
In your GitHub workflow, use DataDog/synthetics-ci-github-action.

Your workflow can be simple or complex.

Simple workflows

Example workflow using public IDs

name: Run Synthetic tests using the test public IDs
jobs:
  e2e_testing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Datadog Synthetic tests
        uses: DataDog/synthetics-ci-github-action@v1.3.0
        with:
          api_key: ${{secrets.DD_API_KEY}}
          app_key: ${{secrets.DD_APP_KEY}}
          public_ids: 'abc-d3f-ghi, jkl-mn0-pqr'

Example workflow using an existing `synthetics.json` file

name: Run Synthetic tests using an existing synthetics.json file
jobs:
  e2e_testing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Datadog Synthetic tests
        uses: DataDog/synthetics-ci-github-action@v1.3.0
        with:
          api_key: ${{secrets.DD_API_KEY}}
          app_key: ${{secrets.DD_APP_KEY}}

For an example test file, see this test.synthetics.json file.

Note: By default, this workflow runs all the tests listed in {,!(node_modules)/**/}*.synthetics.json files (every file ending with .synthetics.json except for those in the node_modules folder). You can also trigger a list of Synthetic tests by specifying a public_id or using a search query.

Complex workflows

Example workflow using the `test_search_query`

name: Run Synthetic tests by test tag
jobs:
  e2e_testing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Datadog Synthetic tests
        uses: DataDog/synthetics-ci-github-action@v1.3.0
        with:
          api_key: ${{secrets.DD_API_KEY}}
          app_key: ${{secrets.DD_APP_KEY}}
          test_search_query: 'tag:e2e-tests'

Example workflow using a test search query and variable overrides

name: Run Synthetic tests using search query
jobs:
  e2e_testing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Datadog Synthetic tests
        uses: DataDog/synthetics-ci-github-action@v1.3.0
        with:
          api_key: ${{secrets.DD_API_KEY}}
          app_key: ${{secrets.DD_APP_KEY}}
          test_search_query: 'tag:staging'
          variables: 'START_URL=https://staging.website.com,PASSWORD=stagingpassword'

Example workflow using a global configuration override with `config_path`

This GitHub Action overrides the path to the global datadog-ci.config.json file.

name: Run Synthetic tests with custom config
jobs:
  e2e_testing:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Datadog Synthetic tests
        uses: DataDog/synthetics-ci-github-action@v1.3.0
        with:
          api_key: ${{secrets.DD_API_KEY}}
          app_key: ${{secrets.DD_APP_KEY}}
          config_path: './synthetics-config.json'

For an example test file, see this global.config.json file.

Inputs

Name	Type	Requirement	Description
`api_key`	string	required	Your Datadog API key. This key is created by your Datadog organization and should be stored as a secret. Default: none.
`app_key`	string	required	Your Datadog Application key. This key is created by your Datadog organization and should be stored as a secret. Default: none.
`public_ids`	string	optional	Comma-separated list of public IDs for Synthetic tests you want to trigger. If no value is provided, the action looks for files named with `synthetics.json`. Default: none.
`test_search_query`	string	optional	Trigger tests corresponding to a search query. Default: none.
`subdomain`	string	optional	The name of the custom subdomain set to access your Datadog application. If the URL used to access Datadog is `myorg.datadoghq.com`, the subdomain value needs to be set to `myorg`. Default: `app`.
`files`	string	optional	Glob pattern to detect Synthetic test configuration files. Default: `{,!(node_modules)/*/}.synthetics.json`.
`datadog_site`	string	optional	The Datadog site to send data to. Default: `datadoghq.com`.
`config_path`	string	optional	The global JSON configuration to be used when launching tests. See the example configuration file for more details. Default: `datadog-ci.json`.
`variables`	string	optional	Comma-separated list of global variables to use for Synthetic tests. For example: `START_URL=https://example.org,MY_VARIABLE=My title`. Default: `[]`.
`junit_report`	string	optional	The filename for a JUnit report if you want to generate one. Default: none.
`tunnel`	boolean	optional	Use the Continuous Testing Tunnel to execute your test batch. Default: `false`.
`polling_timeout`	number	optional	The duration (in milliseconds) after which the action stops polling for test results. At the CI level, test results completed after this duration are considered failed. Default: 30 minutes.
`fail_on_critical_errors`	boolean	optional	Fail the CI job if no tests were triggered, or results could not be fetched from Datadog. Default: `false`.
`fail_on_missing_tests`	boolean	optional	Fail the CI job if at least one specified test with a public ID (using `public_ids` or listed in a test file) is missing in a run (for example, if it has been deleted programmatically or on the Datadog site). Default: `false`.
`fail_on_timeout`	boolean	optional	Fail the CI job if at least one test exceeds the default test timeout. Default: `true`.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md