GitHub Deletes Your Traffic Logs Every 14 Days. Here’s How to Stop That with Ruby

March 30, 2026

Motivation: I didn’t want to lose the metrics for ruby-libgd and libgd-gis. So I built an app that stores all logs and generates custom charts using ruby-libgd.

📊 What You’ll Get

A dashboard like this:

• Historical metrics (not just 14 days)
• Views and clones charts
• Top referral sources
• Daily automatic updates

🛠️ How It Works

GitHub API → GitHub Actions (daily) → Private repo (CSV) → Dashboard HTML + charts

1. Archive Metrics (daily): saves views, clones, and referrers to CSV
2. Generate Dashboard (weekly or manual): generates HTML and charts
3. GitHub Pages: publishes the dashboard automatically

🚀 Quick Tutorial (5 Steps)

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ggerman/github-metrics-dashboard
cd github-metrics-dashboard

2. Configure your repositories

Edit config.yml:

repositories:
  - owner: your_username
    name: your_repo
    display_name: My Project
    description: "Brief description"

3. Create a GitHub token

• Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens → Tokens (classic)
• Permissions: repo
• Copy the token

4. Add secrets to your repository

Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions:

5. Enable GitHub Pages

Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions

Then run the workflows manually from the Actions tab:

1. Archive Metrics → Run workflow
2. Generate Dashboard → Run workflow

🎯 Final Result

Visit https://your_username.github.io/github-metrics-dashboard/ and you’ll see:

• Cards with total views and clones
• Trend charts
• Top referral sources
• Data that never disappears after 14 days

Example: https://ggerman.github.io/github-metrics-dashboard/

🧡 Stuck? Need Help?

Contact me directly: ggerman@gmail.com or https://rubystacknews.com/get-in-touch/

I’ll help you get it running.

📦 Resources

• github.com/ggerman/github-metrics-dashboard
• ruby-libgd – Pure Ruby charts
• libgd-gis – GIS maps in Ruby

Enjoy your repository metrics (forever) 🚀