GitLab Monitoring

Monitor the health of GitLab services to know the impact of code changes in your production environment with our ready-to-install plugin integration.

View code changes, detect buggy code, and resolve it quicker and effectively. This ready-to-install plugin helps track GitLab incidents, understand the end-to-end flow of a request, and be instantly notified on application errors.

Performance Metrics

Some of the metrics provided for this plugin include:

  • Milestones
  • Branches
  • Pipelines
  • Releases
  • Events
  • Deployments
  • Environments
  • Merge Requests
  • Total, Open, and Closed Issues
  • Project Name
  • Contributors
  • Commits
  • Managed Licenses

Prerequisites

  • Make sure a private token is created to monitor your GitLab account. Create a token if you don't have one yet.
  • Our Linux server monitoring agent should be installed in the server.
  • While adding a plugin, the plugin name and its folder name inside the Site24x7 agent should be identical.

Plugin Installation

  • Download and install the latest version of the Site24x7 Linux agent in the server where you plan to run the plugin. If it is installed successfully, you will see a Linux server monitor in the Site24x7 Control Panel. This confirms that the agent is able to communicate with our data center.
  • Download the git_lab.py and git_lab.cfg files from our GitHub repository.
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/git_lab/git_lab.py
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/git_lab/git_lab.cfg
  • In the 'git_lab.cfg' file, add the project ID(s) to be monitored. Sample configuration:
    [display_name]
    personal_access_token='9LdYrk1ju3avs-Xth&jkQyu'
    project_id='1689076'
    where display_name denotes the monitor name to be displayed in the Site24x7 web client and 'project_id' denotes the project ID to be monitored.
  • Create a folder with the name 'git_lab', under the Site24x7 Linux agent plugin directory '/opt/site24x7/monagent/plugins/' and place the 'git_lab.py' and 'git_lab.cfg' files under '/opt/site24x7/monagent/plugins/git_lab'.
The agent will automatically execute the plugin within five minutes and send performance data to the Site24x7 data center.

View Data in the Site24x7 Web Client

  1. Log in to Site24x7 and go to Server > Plugins > click on the name of the plugin monitor.
  2. You will be able to view GitLab instances.

Plugin Contribution

Feel free to contribute to our existing plugin and come up with suggestions or feedback on our Community.

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