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Analyze GitLab usage

  • Group-level analytics moved to GitLab Premium in 13.9.

GitLab provides different types of analytics insights at the instance, group, and project level. These insights appear on the left sidebar, under Analyze.

Analytics features

End-to-end insight & visibility analytics

Use these features to gain insights into your overall software development lifecycle.

Feature Description Project-level Group-level Instance-level
Value Streams Dashboard Insights into DevSecOps trends, patterns, and opportunities for digital transformation improvements. {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No {dotted-circle} No
Value Stream Management Analytics Insights into time-to-value through customizable stages. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
DevOps adoption by group and by instance Organization's maturity in DevOps adoption, with feature adoption over time and feature distribution by group. {dotted-circle} No {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes
Usage trends Overview of instance data and changes in data volume over time. {dotted-circle} No {dotted-circle} No {check-circle} Yes
Instance-level analytics Aggregated analytics across GitLab about multiple projects and groups in one place. {dotted-circle} No {dotted-circle} No {check-circle} Yes
Insights Customizable reports to explore issues, merged merge requests, and triage hygiene. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
Product analytics Understanding how users behave and interact with your product. {dotted-circle} No {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
Analytics dashboards Built-in and customizable dashboards to visualize collected data. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No

Productivity analytics

Use these features to gain insights into the productivity of your team on issues and merge requests.

Feature Description Project-level Group-level Instance-level
Issue analytics Visualization of issues created each month. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
Merge request analytics Overview of merge requests, with mean time to merge, throughput, and activity details. {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No {dotted-circle} No
Productivity analytics Merge request lifecycle, filterable down to author level. {dotted-circle} No {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
Code review analytics Open merge requests with information about merge request activity. {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No {dotted-circle} No

Developer analytics

Use these features to gain insights into developer productivity and code coverage.

Feature Description Project-level Group-level Instance-level
Contribution analytics Overview of contribution events made by group members, with bar chart of push events, merge requests, and issues. {dotted-circle} No {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
Contributor analytics Overview of commits made by project members, with line chart of number of commits. {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No {dotted-circle} No
Repository analytics Programming languages used in the repository and code coverage statistics. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No

CI/CD analytics

Use these features to gain insights into CI/CD performance.

Feature Description Project-level Group-level Instance-level
CI/CD analytics Pipeline duration and successes/failures. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No
DORA metrics DORA metrics over time. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No

Security analytics

Use these features to gain insights into security vulnerabilities and metrics.

Feature Description Project-level Group-level Instance-level
Security Dashboards Collection of metrics, ratings, and charts for vulnerabilities detected by security scanners. {check-circle} Yes {check-circle} Yes {dotted-circle} No

Glossary

Metric Definition Measurement in GitLab
Mean Time to Change (MTTC) The average duration between idea and delivery. From issue creation to the issue's latest related merge request's deployment to production.
Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) The average duration that a bug goes undetected in production. From deployment of bug to issue creation.
Mean Time To Merge (MTTM) The average lifespan of a merge request. From merge request creation to merge request merge (excluding closed and unmerged merge requests). For more information, see Merge Request Analytics.
Mean Time to Recover/Repair/Resolution/Resolve/Restore (MTTR) The average duration that a bug is not fixed in production. From deployment of bug to deployment of fix.
Velocity The total issue burden completed in some period of time. The burden is usually measured in points or weight, often per sprint. Total points or weight of issues closed in a given period of time. Expressed as, for example, "30 points per sprint".