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-name: github-stats
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    # run every 30 minutes
-    - cron: "*/30 * * * *"
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  repository_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  push-stats:
-    # This workflow is only of value to the arduino/arduino-cli repository and
-    # would always fail in forks
-    if: github.repository == 'arduino/arduino-cli'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Fetch downloads count
-        id: fetch
-        uses: actions/github-script@v4
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{github.token}}
-          script: |
-            let metrics = []
-
-            // Get a list of releases
-            const opts = github.repos.listReleases.endpoint.merge({
-              ...context.repo
-            })
-            const releases = await github.paginate(opts)
-
-            // Get download stats for every release
-            for (const rel of releases) {
-              // Names for assets are like `arduino-cli_0.4.0_Linux_32bit.tar.gz`,
-              // we'll use this later to split the asset file name more easily
-              const baseName = `arduino-cli_${rel.name}_`
-
-              // Get a list of assets for this release
-              const opts = github.repos.listReleaseAssets.endpoint.merge({
-                ...context.repo,
-                release_id: rel.id
-              })
-              const assets = await github.paginate(opts)
-
-              for (const asset of assets) {
-                // Ignore files that are not arduino-cli packages
-                if (!asset.name.startsWith(baseName)) {
-                  continue
-                }
-
-                // Strip the base and remove file extension to get `Linux_32bit`
-                systemArch = asset.name.replace(baseName, "").split(".")[0].split("_")
-
-                // Add a metric object to the list of gathered metrics
-                metrics.push({
-                  "type": "gauge",
-                  "name": "arduino.downloads.total",
-                  "value": asset.download_count,
-                  "host": "${{ github.repository }}",
-                  "tags": [
-                    `version:${rel.name}`,
-                    `os:${systemArch[0]}`,
-                    `arch:${systemArch[1]}`,
-                    "cdn:github.com",
-                    "project:arduino-cli"
-                  ]
-                })
-              }
-            }
-
-            // The action will put whatever we return from this function in
-            // `outputs.result`, JSON encoded. So we just return the array
-            // of objects and GitHub will do the rest.
-            return metrics
-
-      - name: Send metrics
-        uses: masci/datadog@v1
-        with:
-          api-key: ${{ secrets.DD_API_KEY }}
-          # Metrics input expects YAML but JSON will work just right.
-          metrics: ${{steps.fetch.outputs.result}}
-
-      - name: Report failure
-        if: failure()
-        uses: masci/datadog@v1
-        with:
-          api-key: ${{ secrets.DD_API_KEY }}
-          events: |
-            - title: "Arduino CLI stats failing"
-              text: "Stats collection failed"
-              alert_type: "error"
-              host: ${{ github.repository }}
-              tags:
-                - "project:arduino-cli"
-                - "cdn:github.com"
-                - "workflow:${{ github.workflow }}"