The Site Admin dashboard provides a number of tools—described in the following sections—to help you manage your GitHub Enterprise instance.
To access the dashboard, in the upper-right corner of any page, click .
- License info & search
- Management Console
- Explore
- Audit log
- Reports
- Indexing
- Repos
- Organizations
- All users
- Site admins
- Dormant users
- Suspended users
License info & search
Refer to this section of the Site Admin dashboard to check your current GitHub Enterprise license; to search for users and repositories; and to query the audit log.
Management Console
Here you can launch the Management Console to manage virtual appliance settings such as the domain, authentication, and SSL.
Explore
Data for GitHub's trending page is calculated into daily, weekly, and monthly time spans for both repositories and developers. You can see when this data was last cached and queue up new trending calculation jobs from the Explore section.
Audit log
GitHub Enterprise keeps a running log of audited actions that you can query.
By default, the audit log shows you a list of all audited actions in reverse chronological order. You can filter this list by entering key-value pairs in the Query text box and then clicking Search, as explained in "Searching the audit log."
For more information on audit logging in general, see "Audit logging." For a full list of audited actions, see "Audited actions."
Reports
If you need to get information on the users, organizations, and repositories in your GitHub Enterprise instance, you would ordinarily fetch JSON data through the GitHub API. Unfortunately, the API may not provide all of the data that you want and it requires a bit of technical expertise to use. The Site Admin dashboard offers a Reports section as an alternative, making it easy for you to download CSV reports with most of the information that you are likely to need for users, organizations, and repositories.
Specifically, you can download CSV reports that list
- all users
- all users who have been active within the last month
- all users who have been inactive for one month or more
- all users who have been suspended
- all organizations
- all repositories
You can also access these reports programmatically via standard HTTP authentication with a site admin account. For example, here is how you would download the "all users" report using cURL:
curl -L -u username:password http(s)://hostname/stafftools/reports/all_users.csv
To access the other reports programmatically, replace all_users
with active_users
, dormant_users
, suspended_users
, all_organizations
, or all_repositories
.
Note: The initial curl
request will return a 202 HTTP response if there are no cached reports available; a report will be generated in the background. You can send a second request to download the report.
User reports
Key | Description |
---|---|
created_at |
When the user account was created (as an ISO 8601 timestamp) |
id |
Account ID for the user or organization |
login |
Account's login name |
email |
Account's primary email address |
role |
Whether the account is an admin or an ordinary user |
suspended? |
Whether the account has been suspended |
last_logged_ip |
Most recent IP address to log into the account |
repos |
Number of repositories owned by the account |
ssh_keys |
Number of SSH keys registered to the account |
org_memberships |
Number of organizations to which the account belongs |
dormant? |
Whether the account is dormant |
last_active |
When the account was last active (as an ISO 8601 timestamp) |
raw_login |
Raw login information (in JSON format) |
2fa_enabled? |
Whether the user has enabled two-factor authentication |
Organization reports
Key | Description |
---|---|
id |
Organization ID |
created_at |
When the organization was created |
login |
Organization's login name |
email |
Organization's primary email address |
owners |
Number of organization owners |
members |
Number of organization members |
teams |
Number of organization teams |
repos |
Number of organization repositories |
Repository reports
Key | Description |
---|---|
created_at |
When the repository was created |
owner_id |
ID of the repository's owner |
owner_type |
Whether the repository is owned by a user or an organization |
owner_name |
Name of the repository's owner |
id |
Repository ID |
name |
Repository name |
visibility |
Whether the repository is public or private |
readable_size |
Repository's size in a human-readable format |
raw_size |
Repository's size as a number |
collaborators |
Number of repository collaborators |
fork? |
Whether the repository is a fork |
deleted? |
Whether the repository has been deleted |
Indexing
GitHub's code search features are powered by ElasticSearch. This section of the Site Admin dashboard shows you the current status of your ElasticSearch cluster and provides you with several tools to control the behavior of searching and indexing. These tools are split into the following three categories.
Code Search
This allows you to enable or disable both search and index operations on source code.
Code Search Index Repair
This controls how the code search index is repaired. You can
- enable or disable index repair jobs
- start a new index repair job
- reset all index repair state
GitHub Enterprise uses repair jobs to reconcile the state of the search index with data stored in a database (issues, pull requests, repositories, and users) and data stored in Git repositories (source code). This happens when
- a new search index is created;
- missing data needs to be backfilled; or
- old search data needs to be updated.
In other words, repair jobs are started as needed and run in the background—they are not scheduled by site admins in any way.
Furthermore, repair jobs use a "repair offset" for parallelization. This is an offset into the database table for the record being reconciled. Multiple background jobs can synchronize work based on this offset.
A progress bar shows the current status of a repair job across all of its background workers. It is the percentage difference of the repair offset with the highest record ID in the database. Don't worry about the value shown in the progress bar after a repair job has completed: because it shows the difference between the repair offset and the highest record ID in the database, it will decrease as more repositories are added to your GitHub Enterprise instance even though those repositories are actually indexed.
You can start a new code-search index repair job at any time. It will use a single CPU as it reconciles the search index with database and Git repository data. To minimize the effects this will have on I/O performance and reduce the chances of operations timing out, try to run a repair job during off-peak hours first. Monitor your system's load averages and CPU usage with a utility like top
; if you don't notice any significant changes, it should be safe to run an index repair job during peak hours, as well.
Issues Index Repair
This controls how the Issues index is repaired. You can
- enable or disable index repair jobs
- start a new index repair job
- reset all index repair state
Repos
This is a simple list of all the repositories on your GitHub Enterprise instance.
Organizations
Here you can see all of the organizations on your GitHub Enterprise instance—and even initiate an SSH key audit.
All users
Here you can see all of the users on your GitHub Enterprise instance—and even initiate an SSH key audit.
Site admins
Here you can see all of the administrators on your GitHub Enterprise instance—and even initiate an SSH key audit.
Dormant users
Here you can see—and suspend—all of the inactive users on your GitHub Enterprise instance. User accounts are considered to be inactive ("dormant") if
- they've existed for longer than a month,
- they haven't generated any activity within the last month, and
- they are not Site Admins.
Suspended users
Here you can see all of the users who have been suspended on your GitHub Enterprise instance—and even initiate an SSH key audit.