Administrator documentation [CORE ONLY]

Learn how to administer your GitLab instance (Community Edition and Enterprise Edition). Regular users don't have access to GitLab administration tools and settings.

GitLab has two product distributions: the open source GitLab Community Edition (CE), and the open core GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE), available through different subscriptions.

You can install GitLab CE or GitLab EE, but the features you'll have access to depend on the subscription you choose (Core, Starter, Premium, or Ultimate). GitLab Community Edition installations only have access to Core features.

GitLab.com is administered by GitLab, Inc., therefore, only GitLab team members have access to its admin configurations. If you're a GitLab.com user, please check the user documentation.

Installing and maintaining GitLab

Learn how to install, configure, update, and maintain your GitLab instance.

Installing GitLab

Configuring GitLab

Customizing GitLab's appearance

  • Header logo: Change the logo on all pages and email headers.
  • Favicon: Change the default favicon to your own logo.
  • Branded login page: Customize the login page with your own logo, title, and description.
  • Welcome message: Add a custom welcome message to the sign-in page.
  • "New Project" page: Customize the text to be displayed on the page that opens whenever your users create a new project.

Maintaining GitLab

  • Raketasks: Perform various tasks for maintenance, backups, automatic webhooks setup, etc.
  • Operations: Keeping GitLab up and running (clean up Redis sessions, moving repositories, Sidekiq MemoryKiller, Unicorn).
  • Restart GitLab: Learn how to restart GitLab and its components.

Updating GitLab

Upgrading or downgrading GitLab

GitLab platform integrations

  • Mattermost: Integrate with Mattermost, an open source, private cloud workplace for web messaging.
  • PlantUML: Create simple diagrams in AsciiDoc and Markdown documents created in snippets, wikis, and repos.
  • Web terminals: Provide terminal access to your applications deployed to Kubernetes from within GitLab's CI/CD environments.

User settings and permissions

Project settings

Repository settings

Continuous Integration settings

Git configuration options

Monitoring GitLab

Performance Monitoring

Troubleshooting