Github Metadata

Last updated on Dec 17, 2025

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Breaking Change (Effective October 7, 2025)

Due to a change in the GitHub Events API, Harness SEI can no longer ingest commits that are not associated with a pull request (PR). Only PR-linked commits are currently ingested and displayed in Harness SEI.

For more information about impacted metrics and widgets, see GitHub Commit Ingestion Breaking Change.

Harness SEI uses Rest APIs to connect to GitHub. Using these API calls, SEI ingests metadata for GitHub commits, pull requests, issues, repositories, tags, and users. This metadata is used to generate engineering metrics and insights.

GitHub commits

Metadata
sha url author committer message timestamp git_author email name date git_committer email name date stats additions deletions total files additions deletions changes filename patch sha status

GitHub issues

Metadata
id number title user labels state assignee locked active_lock_reason assignees comments created_at updated_at closed_at author_association body milestone events issue_events

GitHub pull requests

Metadata
id number state locked title user body created_at updated_at closed_at merged_at merge_commit_sha assignee assignees requested_reviewers requested_teams labels milestone head base author_association reviews pr_commits merge_commit additions deletions change_files commits patches

GitHub repositories

Metadata
name full_name description owner type login orgVerifiedDomainEmails name email master_branch created_at pushed_at updated_at size is_private language languages events pull_requests tags issues issue_events id html_url

GitHub tags

Metadata
name commit sha url node_id

GitHub users

Metadata
type login orgVerifiedDomainEmails name email (GitHub App)

GitHub repository events

Metadata
id type is_public actor org created_at commits