Configuration

Create a GitHub token to use for this project. That prevents us from hitting API limits imposed by GitHub for non-authenticated traffic.

Navigate to Create GitHub Token (https://github.com/settings/tokens) where we will create a token for this project.

Please do the steps that follow:

• Provide a description of the token.
• Select scopes (our project only requires the repo permissions).
• Click the generate token button.
• Copy the token ID and store it in a safe place. That is the equivalent of a password so don't keep it in a public place.

Edit the docker-compose.yml (https://github.com/vegasbrianc/github-monitoring/blob/master/docker-compose.yml) file with your favorite editor. Scroll to the end of the file where you will find the metrics service section. First, replace the GITHUB_TOKEN=<GitHub API Token see README> with the token you generated earlier. Next, replace the REPOS with your desired repositories you want to track. In my example, I have selected the Docker and freeCodeCamp...