GitHub sometimes answers a workflow run listing from a lagging replica. For one workflow the answer held 135 runs and ended three weeks ago, while the current listing held 414 runs. The client reuses one connection, so a stale replica could answer every request of a scan and the dashboard showed a failure that a newer run had already replaced.
A failing workflow is now requested again on a new connection that skips the response cache. The client keeps the union of both answers, so the newest run decides.
ghtracker authenticates as a GitHub App and scans a configured list of repositories on a schedule. It serves a dashboard, a JSON state endpoint, a health probe and Prometheus metrics.
The dashboard lists only items that need attention: failing workflows, pull requests that wait too long or fail their checks, stale issues and projects that failed to scan. It has search, dynamic filters and a button that rescans on demand. The Vue app is embedded in the Go binary.
The client protects the GitHub rate limit with conditional requests, a request reserve and Retry-After handling.
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