• Receiving notifications
• Tuning your notifications
  • Editing notification settings
• Global notification settings
  • Notification scope
    • Project notifications
    • Group notifications
      • Group notification level
      • Group notification email address
  • Notification levels
• Notification events
• Issue / Epics / Merge request events
• Filtering email
  • X-GitLab-NotificationReason

GitLab Notification Emails

GitLab Notifications allow you to stay informed about what’s happening in GitLab. With notifications enabled, you can receive updates about activity in issues, merge requests, and epics. Notifications are sent via email.

Receiving notifications

You will receive notifications for one of the following reasons:

• You participate in an issue, merge request, or epic. In this context, participate means comment, or edit.
• You enable notifications in an issue, merge request, or epic. To enable notifications, click the Notifications toggle in the sidebar to on.

While notifications are enabled, you will receive notification of actions occurring in that issue, merge request, or epic.

Tuning your notifications

The quantity of notifications can be overwhelming. GitLab allows you to tune the notifications you receive. For example, you may want to be notified about all activity in a specific project, but for others, only be notified when you are mentioned by name.

You can tune the notifications you receive by combining your notification settings:

• Global notification settings
• Notification scope
• Notification levels

Editing notification settings

To edit your notification settings:

1. Click on your profile picture and select Settings.
2. Click Notifications in the left sidebar.
3. Edit the desired notification settings. Edited settings are automatically saved and enabled.

These notification settings apply only to you. They do not affect the notifications received by anyone else in the same project or group.

Global notification settings

Your Global notification settings are the default settings unless you select different values for a project or a group.

• Notification email
  • This is the email address your notifications will be sent to.
• Global notification level
  • This is the default notification level which applies to all your notifications.
• Receive notifications about your own activity.
  • Check this checkbox if you want to receive notification about your own activity. Default: Not checked.

Notification scope

You can tune the scope of your notifications by selecting different notification levels for each project and group.

Notification scope is applied in order of precedence (highest to lowest):

• Project
  • For each project, you can select a notification level. Your project setting overrides the group setting.
• Group
  • For each group, you can select a notification level. Your group setting overrides your default setting.
• Global (default)
  • Your global, or default, notification level applies if you have not selected a notification level for the project or group in which the activity occurred.

Project notifications

You can select a notification level for each project. This can be useful if you need to closely monitor activity in select projects.

To select a notification level for a project, use either of these methods:

1. Click on your profile picture and select Settings.
2. Click Notifications in the left sidebar.
3. Locate the project in the Projects section.
4. Select the desired notification level.

または:

1. Navigate to the project’s page.
2. Click the notification dropdown, marked with a bell icon.
3. Select the desired notification level.

For a demonstration of how to be notified when a new release is available, see Notification for releases.

Group notifications

You can select a notification level and email address for each group.

Group notification level

To select a notification level for a group, use either of these methods:

1. Click on your profile picture and select Settings.
2. Click Notifications in the left sidebar.
3. Locate the project in the Groups section.
4. Select the desired notification level.

1. Navigate to the group’s page.
2. Click the notification dropdown, marked with a bell icon.
3. Select the desired notification level.

Group notification email address

You can select an email address to receive notifications for each group you belong to. This could be useful, for example, if you work freelance, and want to keep email about clients’ projects separate.

1. Click on your profile picture and select Settings.
2. Click Notifications in the left sidebar.
3. Locate the project in the Groups section.
4. Select the desired email address.

Notification levels

For each project and group you can select one of the following levels:

Notification events

Users will be notified of the following events:

Issue / Epics / Merge request events

In most of the below cases, the notification will be sent to:

• Participants:
  • the author and assignee of the issue/merge request
  • authors of comments on the issue/merge request
  • anyone mentioned by @username in the title or description of the issue, merge request or epic
  • anyone with notification level “Participating” or higher that is mentioned by @username in any of the comments on the issue, merge request, or epic
• Watchers: users with notification level “Watch”
• Subscribers: anyone who manually subscribed to the issue, merge request, or epic
• Custom: Users with notification level “custom” who turned on notifications for any of the events present in the table below

In addition, if the title or description of an Issue or Merge Request is changed, notifications will be sent to any new mentions by @username as if they had been mentioned in the original text.

You won’t receive notifications for Issues, Merge Requests or Milestones created by yourself (except when an issue is due). You will only receive automatic notifications when somebody else comments or adds changes to the ones that you’ve created or mentions you.

If an open merge request becomes unmergeable due to conflict, its author will be notified about the cause. If a user has also set the merge request to automatically merge once pipeline succeeds, then that user will also be notified.

Filtering email

Notification email messages include GitLab-specific headers. You can filter the notification emails based on the content of these headers to better manage your notifications. For example, you could filter all emails for a specific project where you are being assigned either a merge request or issue.

The following table lists all GitLab-specific email headers:

X-GitLab-NotificationReason

The X-GitLab-NotificationReason header contains the reason for the notification. The value is one of the following, in order of priority:

• own_activity
• assigned
• mentioned

The reason for the notification is also included in the footer of the notification email. For example an email with the reason assigned will have this sentence in the footer:

• You are receiving this email because you have been assigned an item on <configured GitLab hostname>.