GitAlerts

What problem does it solve?

GitHub repositories created under any organization can be controlled by the GitHub administrators. However any repository created under an organization's user account is not controllable unless the organisation has adopted the GitHub enterprise-managed user (EMU) model.

Any public repository under the organization's user account that was created accidentally or for testing purposes could leak secrets, internal information, code etc. GitAlerts helps you detect and monitor such cases

Example

Can be controlled by the administrator https://github.com/<org>/<org-repo-name>

Can't be controlled by the administrator https://github.com/<org-user>/<org-user-repo-name>

GitAlerts Platform (Web UI + API)

Looking for a full platform? GitAlerts API is a self-hosted web platform built on the same concepts — with a modern React UI, async scanning via Celery, GitHub advanced search (code, commits, issues, repos, users), smart filtering, encrypted token storage, and an MCP server for AI/LLM integration.

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Getting Started

• Download the binary file for your operating system / architecture from the Official GitHub Releases

• You can also install git-alerts using homebrew in MacOS and Linux

brew tap boringtools/tap
brew install boringtools/tap/git-alerts

• Alternatively, build from source

Ensure $(go env GOPATH)/bin is in your $PATH

go install github.com/boringtools/git-alerts@main

Setup GitHub personal access token (PAT) as the environment variable, without PAT GitHub will only allow 60 request per hour.

export GITHUB_PAT=YOUR_GITHUB_PAT

Usage

Scan

Scan GitHub repositories belonging to your organization users

git-alerts scan --org your-org-name

Scan and generate report with custom path

git-alerts scan --org your-org-name --report-path /your/file/path/

Scan custom list of GitHub users

git-alerts scan --org your-org-name --users-file-path /path/to/csv/file

Ensure to pass CSV file with the list of GitHub usernames

username01
username02
username03

Monitor

Monitor new public repositories being created by your organization users

git-alerts monitor --org your-org-name

Monitor new public repositories being created by your organization users with slack notification

git-alerts monitor --org your-org-name --slack-alert

Setup slack webhook token as the environment variable

export SLACK_HOOK=SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL

Monitor new public repositories being created by your organization users along with secrets detection

git-alerts monitor --org your-org-name --gitleaks

Monitor new public repositories being created by your organization users along with secrets detection and slack notification

git-alerts monitor --org your-org-name --gitleaks --slack-alert

Monitor custom list of GitHub users

git-alerts monitor --org your-org-name --users-file-path /path/to/csv/file

Ensure to pass CSV file with the list of GitHub usernames

username01
username02
username03

Secrets

Scan with secrets detection using Trufflehog

Ensure trufflehog is installed in your machine

git-alerts detect --org your-org-name --trufflehog
git-alerts detect --org your-org-name --trufflehog-verified

Scan with secrets detection using Gitleaks

Ensure Gitleaks is installed in your machine

git-alerts detect --org your-org-name --gitleaks

Scan with secrets detection using custom list of GitHub users

git-alerts detect --org your-org-name --users-file-path /path/to/csv/file --gitleaks

Ensure to pass CSV file with the list of GitHub usernames

username01
username02
username03

Documentation

docs

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