Monitoring

Monitoring

GitLab ships with Prometheus

Grafana was removed in 16.0 (May 2023)

All components expose metrics

GitLab provides custom dashboards for import into Grafana

Hands-On

1. Start Grafana next to GitLab

    docker compose \
        --project-name gitlab \
        --file ../100_reverse_proxy/compose.yml \
        --file ../160_runner/compose.yml \
        --file ./compose.yml \
        up -d
   

2. Create datasource of type Prometheus with URL http://gitlab:9090

3. Import dashboard with ID 5774

4. Add link to Grafana: Admin Area Settings Metrics and profiling Metrics - Grafana

5. Find link under: Admin Area Monitoring Metrics Dashboard

GitLab CI Pipelines 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