diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-test-environment/action.yml b/.github/actions/setup-test-environment/action.yml
index 35b4be9..0e25c75 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup-test-environment/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/setup-test-environment/action.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ runs:
       run: uv sync --frozen
 
     - name: Setup Node.js
-      uses: actions/setup-node@a0853c24544627f65ddf259abe73b1d18a591444 # v5.0.0
+      uses: actions/setup-node@2028fbc5c25fe9cf00d9f06a71cc4710d4507903 # v6.0.0
       with:
         node-version: '20'
         cache: npm
diff --git a/.github/workflows/issue-stats.yml b/.github/workflows/issue-stats.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f165a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/issue-stats.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+name: Monthly issue metrics
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '3 2 1 * *'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: issue metrics
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
+      pull-requests: read
+    steps:
+      - name: Get dates for last month
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          # Calculate the first day of the previous month
+          first_day=$(date -d "last month" +%Y-%m-01)
+
+          # Calculate the last day of the previous month
+          last_day=$(date -d "$first_day +1 month -1 day" +%Y-%m-%d)
+
+          #Set an environment variable with the date range
+          echo "$first_day..$last_day"
+          echo "last_month=$first_day..$last_day" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+      - name: Run issue-metrics tool
+        uses: github/issue-metrics@c640329f02bd24b12b91d51cd385f0b1c25cefb9 # v3.25.1
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          SEARCH_QUERY: 'repo:ivuorinen/actions is:issue created:${{ env.last_month }} -reason:"not planned"'
+
+      - name: Create issue
+        uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@fca9117c27cdc29c6c4db3b86c48e4115a786710 # v6.0.0
+        with:
+          title: Monthly issue metrics report
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          content-filepath: ./issue_metrics.md
diff --git a/node-setup/action.yml b/node-setup/action.yml
index e8c998d..2686885 100644
--- a/node-setup/action.yml
+++ b/node-setup/action.yml
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ runs:
 
     - name: Setup Node.js
       id: setup
-      uses: actions/setup-node@a0853c24544627f65ddf259abe73b1d18a591444 # v5.0.0
+      uses: actions/setup-node@2028fbc5c25fe9cf00d9f06a71cc4710d4507903 # v6.0.0
       with:
         node-version: ${{ steps.version.outputs.detected-version }}
         registry-url: ${{ inputs.registry-url }}
diff --git a/stale/action.yml b/stale/action.yml
index a1b7469..c23c570 100644
--- a/stale/action.yml
+++ b/stale/action.yml
@@ -38,18 +38,12 @@ runs:
   steps:
     - name: Validate Inputs
       id: validate
-      shell: bash
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.token }}
-      run: |
-        set -euo pipefail
-
-        # Check for obvious token misconfigurations
-        if [[ -z "$GITHUB_TOKEN" ]] || [[ "$GITHUB_TOKEN" == *'${{'* ]] || [[ "$GITHUB_TOKEN" == 'secrets.'* ]]; then
-          echo "::warning::GitHub token appears to be unevaluated or misconfigured. Please provide a valid token."
-        fi
-
-        echo "Input validation completed successfully"
+      uses: ./validate-inputs
+      with:
+        action: 'stale'
+        token: ${{ inputs.token }}
+        days-before-stale: ${{ inputs.days-before-stale }}
+        days-before-close: ${{ inputs.days-before-close }}
 
     - name: 🚀 Run stale
       id: stale
diff --git a/validate-inputs/action.yml b/validate-inputs/action.yml
index a23b798..7889ea9 100644
--- a/validate-inputs/action.yml
+++ b/validate-inputs/action.yml
@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ inputs:
   parallel-builds:
     description: 'Number of parallel builds'
     required: false
+  days-before-stale:
+    description: 'Number of days before marking as stale'
+    required: false
+  days-before-close:
+    description: 'Number of days before closing stale items'
+    required: false
 
   # File/path inputs
   pre-commit-config:
@@ -218,6 +224,8 @@ runs:
         INPUT_IMAGE_QUALITY: ${{ inputs.image-quality }}
         INPUT_PNG_QUALITY: ${{ inputs.png-quality }}
         INPUT_PARALLEL_BUILDS: ${{ inputs.parallel-builds }}
+        INPUT_DAYS_BEFORE_STALE: ${{ inputs.days-before-stale }}
+        INPUT_DAYS_BEFORE_CLOSE: ${{ inputs.days-before-close }}
         INPUT_PRE_COMMIT_CONFIG: ${{ inputs.pre-commit-config }}
         INPUT_BASE_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.base-branch }}
         INPUT_DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry-run }}