Lane MonkeyLane Monkey vs GitHub Actions
Looking for a GitHub Actions dashboard alternative for CI/CD monitoring?
GitHub Actions is fantastic for running workflows. But its dashboard shows one repo at a time, can't include your Vercel deploys or Sentry errors, and doesn't give your team a shared operations view. Lane Monkey adds the cross-repo, cross-tool dashboard that GitHub Actions is missing.
What GitHub Actions does well
We love GitHub Actions. We use it ourselves. It's the most popular CI/CD platform for a reason — and Lane Monkey is designed to complement it, not replace it.
- Deep, native integration with GitHub repositories — workflows live right next to your code
- Built-in CI/CD that’s free for public repos and generous for private ones
- Massive marketplace of reusable actions built by the community
- Excellent documentation and first-class support for every major language and framework
Where it falls short for CI/CD monitoring
GitHub Actions is built to run workflows, not to be a monitoring dashboard. As your organization grows, the per-repo view becomes a bottleneck for team visibility.
- The Actions dashboard only shows one repository at a time — there’s no cross-repo overview for teams managing 10, 20, or 50 repos
- No way to see Vercel deployments, Sentry errors, or PagerDuty incidents alongside your GitHub Actions runs
- No drag-and-drop organization — you can’t arrange workflows into a layout that matches how your team thinks about services
- No team-wide shared view — each engineer sees their own filtered view, not a shared operations dashboard
How Lane Monkey is different
Lane Monkey sits on top of GitHub Actions and gives you the cross-repo, cross-tool monitoring dashboard that GitHub doesn't provide. Keep using Actions for CI — use Lane Monkey to see it all.
See ALL repos at once
One board shows every repo in your organization. No more clicking through 20 repositories to check if all builds are green.
Combine with Vercel, Sentry, and more
See your GitHub Actions runs alongside Vercel deployments, Sentry errors, PagerDuty alerts, and 8+ other integrations on one board.
Organize with drag-and-drop
Arrange lanes to match your mental model. Group by team, by service, by environment — whatever makes sense for your workflow.
Team-wide shared visibility
Everyone on the team sees the same board. No more “can you check if the deploy went through?” messages in Slack.
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How Lane Monkey and the GitHub Actions dashboard stack up for CI/CD pipeline monitoring.
| Feature | GitHub Actions | Lane Monkey |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-repo view | ||
| Multi-tool integration | ||
| Kanban organization | ||
| Team shared view | ||
| Custom dashboards | ||
| Real-time status | ||
| Workflow run details | ||
| Free tier |
Make the switch in under a minute.
Free to start, Pro when your team grows. Keep GitHub Actions for CI — add Lane Monkey for the cross-repo dashboard it's missing.