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Connect Athenian to GitHub Enterprise self-hosted
Connect Athenian to GitHub Enterprise self-hosted

Athenian also provides metrics and insights for organizations using a self-hosted GitHub Enterprise version.

Waren Long avatar
Written by Waren Long
Updated over 3 years ago

What you will need

  • A target GitHub Enterprise (GHE) installation.

  • A target GitHub organization within GHE.

  • A GitHub user within GHE with permissions over the target GitHub organization.

Process overview

  1. Register the Athenian application in GHE

  2. Install the Athenian application in the organization

  3. Provide Athenian with the details of the application

1. Register the Athenian application in GHE

1.1. Create the Athenian Github App

Once on your GitHub Enterprise deployment, go to the Settings page of the target GitHub organization which will use Athenian. Then, go to GitHub Apps in the Developer Settings.

Click New GitHub App.

Here, fill in the following fields according to the detail below:

Register new GitHub App

Webhook

Permissions

In order to provide full visibility over your software delivery pipeline, we require the following permissions in read-only mode:

Repository permissions:

  • Actions

  • Administration

  • Checks

  • Contents

  • Deployments

  • Environments (if available)

  • Issues

  • Metadata

  • Pull Requests

  • Commit statuses

Organization permissions

  • Members

Subscribe to events

In this last section, check the following events:

  • Meta

  • Check suite (if available)

  • Create

  • Deployment review (if available)

  • Issue comment

  • Label

  • Member

  • Public

  • Pull request review

  • Push

  • Repository

  • Status

  • Team add

  • Workflow dispatch (if available)

  • Check run

  • Commit comment

  • Delete

  • Deployment

  • Deployment status

  • Issues

  • Milestone

  • Membership

  • Organization

  • Pull request

  • Pull request review comment

  • Release

  • Repository dispatch

  • Team

  • Workflow run (if available)

Finally, ensure the app can be installed on any account and click Create GitHub App:

1.2. Take note of the Application details

Once the app created, take note of the following details in a secure place, as you we will need those to finalize the installation on Athenian's side.

  • App ID

  • Client ID

  • Client secret

  • Public link

On the same page, scroll down to the bottom and Generate a private key.

2. Install Athenian Application

Now that the application is registered, you can install the Athenian App on one or more GitHub organizations.

Go to Install App on the left and select Install the target organizations you want to install Athenian on.

Note: It is also possible to do install the app by going to its Public page.

Both paths will let lead you to a screen where you can choose the repositories you want to install the app on.

3. Provide Athenian with the details of the application

In order to complete the installation on our side, we need you to provide us the following details:

  • App ID

  • Client ID

  • Client secret

  • Public link

  • Generated private key

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Athenian on your GitHub Enterprise organization! We will come back to you once your data is loaded.

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