• Admin Area sections
• Admin Dashboard
• Overview section
  • Administering Projects
  • Administering Users
    • Users statistics
  • Administering Groups
  • Administering Jobs
  • Administering Runners
  • Administering Gitaly servers
• Monitoring section
  • System Info
  • Background Jobs
  • Logs
  • Requests Profiles
  • Audit Log

GitLab Admin Area

The Admin Area provides a web UI for administering some features of GitLab self-managed instances.

To access the Admin Area, either:

• Click the Admin Area icon ().
• Visit /admin on your self-managed instance.

Admin Area sections

The Admin Area is made up of the following sections:

Admin Dashboard

The Dashboard provides statistics and system information about the GitLab instance.

To access the Dashboard, either:

• Click the Admin Area icon ().
• Visit /admin on your self-managed instance.

The Dashboard is the default view of the Admin Area, and is made up of the following sections:

Overview section

The following topics document the Overview section of the Admin Area.

Administering Projects

You can administer all projects in the GitLab instance from the Admin Area’s Projects page.

To access the Projects page, go to Admin Area > Overview > Projects.

Click the All, Private, Internal, or Public tab to list only projects of that criteria.

By default, all projects are listed, in reverse order of when they were last updated. For each project, the following information is listed:

• Name.
• Namespace.
• Description.
• Size, updated every 15 minutes at most.

Projects can be edited or deleted.

The list of projects can be sorted by:

• Name.
• Last created.
• Oldest created.
• Last updated.
• Oldest updated.
• Owner.

A user can choose to hide or show archived projects in the list.

In the Filter by name field, type the project name you want to find, and GitLab will filter them as you type.

Select from the Namespace dropdown to filter only projects in that namespace.

You can combine the filter options. For example, to list only public projects with score in their name:

1. Click the Public tab.
2. Enter score in the Filter by name… input box.

Administering Users

You can administer all users in the GitLab instance from the Admin Area’s Users page.

To access the Users page, go to Admin Area > Overview > Users.

To list users matching a specific criteria, click on one of the following tabs on the Users page:

• Active
• Admins
• 2FA Enabled
• 2FA Disabled
• External
• Blocked
• Deactivated
• Without projects

For each user, their username, email address, are listed, also the date their account was created and the date of last activity. To edit a user, click the Edit button in that user’s row. To delete the user, or delete the user and their contributions, click the cog dropdown in that user’s row, and select the desired option.

To change the sort order:

1. Click the sort dropdown.
2. Select the desired order.

By default the sort dropdown shows Name.

To search for users, enter your criteria in the search field. The user search is case insensitive, and applies partial matching to name and username. To search for an email address, you must provide the complete email address.

Users statistics

The Users statistics page provides an overview of user accounts by role, such as Users with highest role Maintainer.

The following totals are also included:

• Active users
• Blocked users
• Total users

GitLab billing is based on the number of Active users, calculated as Total users - Blocked users. For details of active users, see Choosing the number of users.

Administering Groups

You can administer all groups in the GitLab instance from the Admin Area’s Groups page.

To access the Groups page, go to Admin Area > Overview > Groups.

For each group, the page displays their name, description, size, number of projects in the group, number of members, and whether the group is private, internal, or public. To edit a group, click the Edit button in that group’s row. To delete the group, click the Delete button in that group’s row.

To change the sort order, click the sort dropdown and select the desired order. The default sort order is by Last created.

To search for groups by name, enter your criteria in the search field. The group search is case insensitive, and applies partial matching.

To Create a new group click New group.

Administering Jobs

You can administer all jobs in the GitLab instance from the Admin Area’s Jobs page.

To access the Jobs page, go to Admin Area > Overview > Jobs.

All jobs are listed, in descending order of job ID.

Click the All tab to list all jobs. Click the Pending, Running, or Finished tab to list only jobs of that status.

For each job, the following details are listed:

Administering Runners

You can administer all Runners in the GitLab instance from the Admin Area’s Runners page. See GitLab Runner for more information on Runner itself.

To access the Runners page, go to Admin Area > Overview > Runners.

The Runners page features:

• A description of Runners, and their possible states.
• Instructions on installing a Runner.
• A list of all registered Runners.

Runners are listed in descending order by the date they were created, by default. You can change the sort order to Last Contacted from the dropdown beside the search field.

To search Runners’ descriptions:

1. In the Search or filter results… field, type the description of the Runner you want to find.
2. Press Enter.

You can also filter Runners by status, type, and tag. To filter:

1. Click in the Search or filter results… field.
2. Select status:, type:, or tag:.
3. Select or enter your search criteria.

For each Runner, the following attributes are listed:

You can also edit, pause, or remove each Runner.

Administering Gitaly servers

You can list all Gitaly servers in the GitLab instance from the Admin Area’s Gitaly Servers page. For more details, see Gitaly.

To access the Gitaly Servers page, go to Admin Area > Overview > Gitaly Servers.

For each Gitaly server, the following details are listed:

Monitoring section

The following topics document the Monitoring section of the Admin Area.

System Info

The System Info page provides the following statistics:

These statistics are updated only when you navigate to the System Info page, or you refresh the page in your browser.

Background Jobs

The Background Jobs page displays the Sidekiq dashboard. Sidekiq is used by GitLab to perform processing in the background.

The Sidekiq dashboard consists of the following elements:

• A tab per jobs’ status.
• A breakdown of background job statistics.
• A live graph of Processed and Failed jobs, with a selectable polling interval.
• An historical graph of Processed and Failed jobs, with a selectable time span.
• Redis statistics, including:
  • Version number
  • Uptime, measured in days
  • Number of connections
  • Current memory usage, measured in MB
  • Peak memory usage, measured in MB

Logs

The Logs page provides access to the following log files:

The contents of these log files can be useful when troubleshooting a problem. Access is available to GitLab admins, without requiring direct access to the log files.

For details of these log files and their contents, see Log system.

The content of each log file is listed in chronological order. To minimize performance issues, a maximum 2000 lines of each log file are shown.

Requests Profiles

The Requests Profiles page contains the token required for profiling. For more details, see Request Profiling.

Audit Log

The Audit Log page lists changes made within the GitLab server. With this information you can control, analyze, and track every change.