Re-running Dependabot jobs on GitHub Actions

Resolve run failures and manually update your dependencies by re-running Dependabot jobs.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners and repository administrators

In this article

Re-running a Dependabot version updates job

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Insights.

    Screenshot of the main page of a repository. In the horizontal navigation bar, a tab, labeled with a graph icon and "Insights," is outlined in orange.

  3. In the left sidebar, click Dependency graph.

    Screenshot of the "Dependency graph" tab. The tab is highlighted with an orange outline.

  4. Under "Dependency graph", click Dependabot.

  5. To the right of the name of manifest file that you're interested in, click Recent update jobs.

  6. To the right of the affected manifest file, click Check for updates to re-run a Dependabot version updates job and check for new updates to dependencies for that ecosystem.

Re-running a Dependabot security updates job

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
  2. Under your repository name, click Security.
  3. In the left sidebar, under "Vulnerability alerts", click Dependabot.
  4. Under "Dependabot", click the alert you want to view.
  5. In the section displaying the error details for the alert, click Try again to re-run the Dependabot security updates job.