Checked October 22, 2026

GitHub Actions workflow runs, jobs and logs in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and other JetBrains IDEs

JetBrains IDEs bundle a GitHub plugin. For GitHub Actions it helps you write workflow files and shows whether the checks of a pull request or a commit passed, but it has no list of workflow runs with their jobs and logs: the request to read run logs in the IDE (IJPL-74267) has been Submitted since January 2022. The IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 early-access build adds an option, off by default, to be notified when a workflow run fails for a commit you pushed. Following runs, reading their logs and acting on them is left to plugins on JetBrains Marketplace. These are the general options for that we found.

Disclosure: Lesstep makes one of them (Pipeline Inbox for GitHub Actions Workflows). The others are described from their JetBrains Marketplace pages (descriptions, change notes, version lists and US prices). Where those do not say something, this page says "not stated in its description" instead of guessing. GitHub and GitHub Actions are trademarks of GitHub, Inc. Pipeline Inbox for GitHub Actions Workflows is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by GitHub, Inc. Corrections are welcome at support@lesstep.com. 日本語

Which one fits

You want this project's workflow runs, their jobs and logs in the IDE, for free: GitHub Actions Manager is by far the most downloaded of these (816,437 downloads); viewing runs, jobs and step logs is free in it, with filters by branch (including your current one), actor, event and status, on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. Pipeline Inbox (ours) is free for reading too: runs, jobs and steps, and job logs. Among the small free ones, ActionLens and GitHub Actions Controller also show job logs.
You want the runs of many repositories in one list, including ones outside the project or a whole organization: Pipeline Inbox (ours) takes this project's repositories from its Git remotes and adds any repository you paste (owner/repository or its address), every repository of an organization, or, with a token, the ones you were active in lately; filters show runs pushed or started by you, of your current branch, failed, or waiting for your review. GitHub Actions Viewer (free, IDE 2026.2) shows every repository of the current workspace as a tree. GitHub Actions Manager lets you choose which repositories to show or hide; adding repositories from outside the project is not stated in its description. Pipeline Notifier (free) watches extra repositories for failures, as notifications only.
You want to re-run, cancel, start a workflow or approve a deployment from the IDE: GitHub Actions Manager (paid features, 30-day trial) re-runs or cancels a run or a single job, runs dispatchable workflows with every input type and approves deployments, and also has artifacts, annotations and a repository settings dialog for secrets, variables, environments, caches and collaborators. Actionate (paid) re-runs all or failed jobs, with debug logging if you like, and runs dispatchable workflows; cancelling and deployment reviews are not stated in its description. Visual GitHub Actions (paid) re-runs and cancels runs next to its visual workflow editor. Pipeline Inbox (ours, paid, 30-day trial) re-runs failed jobs, all jobs or one job, cancels, runs workflows with their inputs and approves or rejects deployments waiting for your review. Free: Gh-Workflows re-runs, cancels and starts workflows; GitHub Workflow starts them from a run configuration and can cancel those runs; GitHub Actions Controller starts them.
You want a notification when a run finishes: the IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 early-access build has the option described above (failed runs of commits you pushed from this working copy, off by default). Actionate (paid) notifies when a run you subscribed to finishes, or every run you trigger on your current branch of a workflow you subscribed to. Pipeline Notifier (free, IDE 2026.2 and later) alerts on failed runs, yours by default, with rules for other people's and GitLab pipelines too. CIclone (paid) notifies for several CI services. Pipeline Inbox (ours) notifies when a run of yours or of your current branch finishes and shows your current branch's runs in the status bar.
You mainly write workflow files: the bundled GitHub plugin completes and checks them. GitHub Workflow (free) is a larger workflow-file plugin, Visual GitHub Actions (paid) shows a workflow as a graph you can edit, GitHub Actions Helper (free, with paid parts) adds highlighting and shell support inside run steps, and GitHub Actions Manager flags outdated actions. See the note below the cards.
You are on IDE 2024.1 to 2025.2: Marketplace offers older versions of GitHub Actions Manager for these IDEs (for 2024.1 one from July 2024, for 2024.3 one from May 2025, for 2025.2 one from March 2026); its current version needs 2026.2. Actionate offers a version from May 2025 for 2024.1 to 2025.1 and one from January 2026 for 2025.2 and 2025.3. Pipeline Inbox (ours) supports 2024.1 and later. Visual GitHub Actions and Gh-Workflows start at 2025.2; GitHub Actions Viewer, GitHub Actions Controller and Pipeline Notifier at 2026.1 or 2026.2.
You want a plugin whose own description says it has no AI features and no telemetry: Pipeline Inbox for GitHub Actions Workflows (Lesstep's). GitHub Actions Manager and Actionate list no AI features and say nothing about telemetry. ActionLens can copy a ready-to-paste AI debug prompt, and Project Dashboard AI, which has a GitHub Actions tab, is built around AI chat with the provider you choose.

The main options

Built into JetBrains IDEs

IDEs: The GitHub plugin bundled with IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 and 2025.3, the 2026.3 early-access build and Rider 2026.2 was checked.
GitHub: GitHub and GitHub Enterprise accounts, logged in through the IDE.
Runs: No list of workflow runs, jobs or logs. A pull request's details say whether its checks passed, failed or are still running, with a link to them in the browser, and the Git log has a "GitHub Commit Checks" column. The 2026.3 early-access build adds an advanced setting, off by default, "Notify about a failed GitHub Actions workflow run for your push": it looks for the runs of a commit you pushed from this working copy once a minute (30 times by default), and its notification offers Open on GitHub and Download logs.
Workflow files: In 2025.3, the 2026.3 early-access build and Rider 2026.2: completion, inspections (undefined actions, missing or undefined inputs, undefined or cyclic job dependencies) and templates for new workflow and action files.
Open requests: In JetBrains' issue tracker on October 22, 2026: "GitHub Actions: Support viewing logs in IDE" (IJPL-74267, Submitted, 5 votes, filed January 17, 2022). The meta issue for workflow-file support (IJPL-72839) was closed as Fixed in November 2024.
Price: Included with the IDE.

GitHub Actions Manager

IDEs: "JetBrains IDEs", according to its description. Version 2026.1.18 (October 14, 2026) is for 2026.2 and later; Marketplace offers older versions for 2024.1 (2024.2.6, July 19, 2024), 2024.3 (2025.1.2, May 10, 2025) and 2025.2 (2025.2.13, March 21, 2026).
GitHub: github.com and GitHub Enterprise Server; the IDE's GitHub accounts or a token of your own, with an account per repository.
Runs: Free: current and past runs with tooltips (what started them, attempt, duration), jobs as a tree with matrix and reusable-workflow jobs grouped, logs split by step and searchable, filters by branch, actor, event and status with a current-branch filter, refreshed every 30 seconds by default, and a choice of which repositories to show or hide. Paid: artifacts, the pull request that triggered a run, deployment approval, dispatchable workflows with every input type, re-running or cancelling a run or a single job, annotations that jump to the file and line, and a repository settings dialog for variables and secrets, collaborators, Actions caches and environments. A notification when a run finishes is not stated in its description.
Also: Workflow-file help: outdated actions with a quick fix, unknown actions, navigation to actions. No AI features are listed in its description or change notes.
Price: Free for viewing runs, jobs and logs. Paid features: $3 a month or $30 a year for individuals, $8 a month or $80 a year for organizations, 30-day trial.

Actionate

IDEs: Version 2025.1.13 (September 19, 2026) for 2026.2 and the 2026.3 early-access build; Marketplace offers 2025.1.10 (January 3, 2026) for 2025.2 and 2025.3, and 2025.1.7 (May 9, 2025) for 2024.1 to 2025.1. Its change notes say it is tested on nine JetBrains IDE products.
GitHub: Accounts from the IDE's bundled GitHub plugin, a default one or one per project. GitHub Enterprise Server is not stated in its description.
Runs: Current and past runs with filters by branch, actor, event and status; a run's details (event, actor, duration, pull request, commit, branch, workflow file), annotations, artifacts to download, jobs, steps, all attempts, and logs of any size with collapsible groups and links. Notifications when a run you subscribed to finishes, or every run you trigger on your current branch of a workflow you subscribed to. Re-run all or failed jobs, with debug logging if you like; run dispatchable workflows with every input type, a ref picker and required inputs checked. Cancelling and deployment reviews are not stated in its description.
Also: Completion of environments, variables and secrets in workflow files. No AI features are listed in its description or change notes.
Price: Paid: $1 a month or $10 a year for individuals, $2 a month or $20 a year for organizations, 30-day trial.

Visual GitHub Actions

IDEs: 2025.2 and later; version 5.0.0 of September 27, 2026.
GitHub: Sign-in for github.com and GitHub Enterprise in its settings.
Runs: A Runs tool window with the workflows and recent runs of the repository from the project's origin remote, filtered by workflow and branch and refreshed automatically; re-run and cancel. Picking a run shows its job and step status on the workflow graph, with links to a failed job on GitHub. Logs are not stated in its description.
Also: Mainly a visual workflow editor: jobs as cards with their dependencies, next to the YAML and kept in sync.
Price: Paid: $2 a month or $20 a year for individuals, $5 a month or $50 a year for organizations, 14-day trial.

Pipeline Inbox for GitHub Actions Workflows (Lesstep)

IDEs: 2024.1 and later: IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand, PhpStorm, CLion, RubyMine and the other JetBrains IDEs with Git. It does not depend on the bundled GitHub plugin.
GitHub: github.com, GitHub Enterprise Server and GHE.com, any number of hosts, each with its own personal access token in the IDE's password safe; public repositories on github.com without a token. The IDE's proxy settings and trusted certificates are used.
Runs: One list across this project's repositories (from its Git remotes, forks included) and the ones you add: by owner/repository or address, every repository of an organization, or with a token the ones you were active in lately. Filters for runs pushed or started by you or of your commits, your current branch, failed, and waiting for your review. Per run: the commit, the pull request, who started it and the workflow file; jobs with their steps; job logs with colours, groups and error lines, searchable, opened at a step by double-clicking it. A notification when a run of yours or of your current branch finishes, and your current branch's runs in the status bar.
Also: No AI features and no telemetry; its page says it talks only to the GitHub hosts you set up and to GitHub's log storage for a job's log, which is read without the token. English and Japanese.
Price: Reading is free: the run list, jobs and steps, logs, notifications and the status bar. Re-running jobs (failed, all or one, with debug logging if you like), cancelling runs, running workflows with their inputs and reviewing deployments: $1.50 a month or $15 a year for individuals, $3 a month or $30 a year for organizations, 30-day trial.

Install it from JetBrains Marketplace

Smaller or narrower entries also exist. GitHub Workflow (free; version 2026.6.26, June 26, 2026, for IDE 2024.2 and later) is mainly a workflow-file plugin; its May 2026 change notes add run configurations that start a dispatchable workflow with its inputs, show the run's status and logs in the Run tool window and cancel it. GitHub Actions Viewer (free; IDE 2026.2) shows the runs of every repository in the current workspace as a tree from repository down to step, with a current-branch filter; it signs in through the GitHub CLI, and logs are not stated in its description. Gh-Workflows (free; IDE 2025.2 and later) lists workflows and recent runs, starts dispatchable workflows with their inputs, and re-runs, cancels or deletes runs; a job opens on GitHub. ActionLens (free; IDE 2024.1 to 2026.2) shows runs, jobs, steps and full job logs with error lines highlighted. GitHub Actions Controller (free; IDE 2026.1 and later) shows workflows, recent runs, job details and logs in the Git tool window and starts dispatchable workflows. GitHub Actions Monitor (free; IDE 2024.3 and later) says it monitors and acts on GitHub Actions for your project's repository, on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Server; its description says nothing more. Pipeline Notifier (free; IDE 2026.2 and later) alerts on failed GitHub Actions runs and GitLab pipelines, with extra repositories and rules for other people's failures. Build Monitor (free for one account and two profiles, paid beyond; last updated December 2023) monitors GitHub workflows and Buildkite builds with notifications and automatic retries. CIclone (paid) notifies when a build on one of several CI services finishes, GitHub Actions among them, and jumps to the failed tests. Pull Request Viewer for Bitbucket, GitHub & Azure DevOps (paid) includes the GitHub Actions runs of pull requests, with jobs, logs, re-run and cancel, in its pull request review. Plugins for writing or checking workflow files (GitHub Actions Helper, GitHub Actions Run Highlighter, Action Runtime Sunset Lint and others), for running a job on your own machine (Runcradle, paid), for the security of workflows (GitHub Actions Supply Chain Guard, GitHub Actions Pwn-Request Companion), and plugins that name GitHub Actions only as a CI their own tool can run in, are left out; this page keeps to general tools for following workflow runs in the IDE.

Prices are the US year-one prices Marketplace listed on October 22, 2026; other countries and later years can differ. Dates are from the same pages (in UTC).

Sources

The GitHub plugin bundled with IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1.7 and 2025.3, the 2026.3 early-access build (263.7031.23) and Rider 2026.2.3.1, as downloaded by the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin: its descriptor and its English message bundles, read on October 22, 2026
JetBrains issue tracker, states on October 22, 2026: the issues linked above, found by searching issue titles for GitHub Actions, workflow runs and GitHub workflows
Plugins: their JetBrains Marketplace pages, linked above (descriptions, change notes, version and compatibility lists, prices and trial lengths as of October 22, 2026), and for Pipeline Inbox for GitHub Actions Workflows its own page
How the list was made: Marketplace searches on October 22, 2026 for 34 terms, among them "github actions", "github workflow", "workflow runs", "github actions runs", "github actions logs", "actions runner", "workflow_dispatch", "github ci", "github checks", "ci status" and "build monitor", with and without an IDE version filter (2024.1, 2024.3, 2025.2 and 2026.2; broader terms only without a filter and for 2026.2, first 40 or 100 results); every result whose name or description mentions GitHub Actions or workflow runs was read. Other plugins may exist that these searches do not return.