Monitoring

Monitoring

GitLab ships with Prometheus and Grafana included

All components expose metrics

Grafana ships with custom dashboards

Hands-On

1. Enable link to integrated Grafana (Menu Admin Settings Monitoring and profiling Metrics - Grafana)

2. Go to Grafana (Menu Admin Monitoring Metrics Dashboard)

3. Reset password for Grafana :

    docker compose --project-name gitlab exec gitlab \
        gitlab-ctl set-grafana-password
   

4. Log in to Grafana with user admin and your password

GitLab CI Pipeline Exporter (GCPE)

Prometheus exporter for pipelines collecting…

• Pipeline results
• Job results
• Filter by projects
• Filter by branches

Meant to run as daemon

Regularly checks configured projects

Regularly discovers new projects