About GitHub Connect

About GitHub Connect

GitHub Connect enhances GitHub Enterprise Server by allowing votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server to benefit from the power of GitHub.com in limited ways. After you enable GitHub Connect, you can enable additional features and workflows that rely on GitHub.com, such as Dependabot alerts for security vulnerabilities that are tracked in the GitHub Advisory Database.

GitHub Connect does not open votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server to the public internet. None of your enterprise's private data is exposed to GitHub.com users. Instead, GitHub Connect transmits only the limited data needed for the individual features you choose to enable. Unless you enable license sync, no personal data is transmitted by GitHub Connect. For more information about what data is transmitted by GitHub Connect, see "Data transmission for GitHub Connect."

Enabling GitHub Connect will not allow GitHub.com users to make changes to GitHub Enterprise Server.

To enable GitHub Connect, you configure a connection between votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server and enterprise account on GitHub.com that uses GitHub Enterprise Cloud. La connexion utilise HTTPS sur les ports 443 ou 80 et est sécurisée par TLS. For more information, see "Gestion de GitHub Connect."

After enabling GitHub Connect, you will be able to enable features such as automatic user license sync and Dependabot alerts. For more information about all of the features available, see "GitHub Connect features."

GitHub Connect features

After you configure the connection between votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you can enable individual features of GitHub Connect for your enterprise.

Feature	Description	More information
Automatic user license sync	Manage license usage across your GitHub Enterprise deployments by automatically syncing user licenses from votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud.	"Activation de la synchronisation automatique des licences utilisateur pour votre entreprise"
Dependabot	Allow users to find and fix vulnerabilities in code dependencies.	"Activation de Dependabot pour votre entreprise"
GitHub.com actions	Allow users to use actions from GitHub.com in public workflow files.	"Activer l’accès automatique aux actions GitHub.com à l’aide de GitHub Connect"
Server Statistics	Analyze your own aggregate data from GitHub Enterprise Server, and help us improve GitHub products.	"Activation des statistiques de serveur pour votre entreprise"
Unified search	Allow users to include repositories on GitHub.com in their search results when searching from votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server.	"Activation de la recherche unifiée pour votre entreprise"
Unified contributions	Allow users to include anonymized contribution counts for their work on votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server in their contribution graphs on GitHub.com.	"Activation des contributions unifiées pour votre entreprise"

Data transmission for GitHub Connect

When GitHub Connect is enabled, a record on GitHub Enterprise Cloud stores information about the connection. If you enable individual features of GitHub Connect, additional data is transmitted.

Data transmitted when GitHub Connect is enabled

When you enable GitHub Connect or specific GitHub Connect features, a record on GitHub Enterprise Cloud stores the following information about the connection.

• The public key portion of your GitHub Enterprise Server license
• A hash of your GitHub Enterprise Server license
• The customer name on your GitHub Enterprise Server license
• The version of votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server
• The hostname of votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server
• The enterprise account on GitHub Enterprise Cloud that's connected to votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server
• The authentication token that's used by votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server to make requests to GitHub Enterprise Cloud
• If Transport Layer Security (TLS) is enabled and configured on votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server
• The GitHub Connect features that are enabled on votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server, and the date and time of enablement
• The dormancy threshold for your enterprise
• The number of dormant users for your enterprise
• A count of license-consuming seats, which does not include suspended users

GitHub Connect syncs the above connection data between votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud weekly, starting from the day and approximate time that GitHub Connect was enabled.

Data transmitted by individual features of GitHub Connect

Additional data is transmitted if you enable individual features of GitHub Connect.

Feature	Data	Which way does the data flow?	Where is the data used?
Automatic user license sync	Each GitHub Enterprise Server user's user ID and email addresses	From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud	GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Dependabot alerts	Vulnerability alerts	From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server	GitHub Enterprise Server
Dependabot updates	Dependencies and the metadata for each dependency's repository If a dependency is stored in a private repository on GitHub.com, data will only be transmitted if Dependabot is configured and authorized to access that repository.	From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server	GitHub Enterprise Server
GitHub.com actions	Name of action, action (YAML file from GitHub Marketplace)	From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com	GitHub Enterprise Server
Server Statistics	Aggregate metrics about your usage of GitHub Enterprise Server. For the complete list of metrics, see "À propos des statistiques du serveur."	From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud	GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Unified search	Search terms, search results	From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com	GitHub Enterprise Server
Unified contributions	Contribution counts	From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com	GitHub.com

Further reading

• "Gestion des comptes d’entreprise" in the GraphQL API documentation