Analyze GitLab usage

DETAILS: Tier: Free, Premium, Ultimate Offering: SaaS, self-managed

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

Instance-level analytics

Use instance-level analytics to aggregate analytics across GitLab, so that you can view information across multiple projects and groups in one place.

Group-level analytics

• Moved to GitLab Premium in 13.9.

Use group-level analytics to get insights into your groups':

• Security Dashboards
• Contribution analytics
• DevOps adoption
• Insights
• Issue analytics
• Productivity analytics
• Repositories analytics
• Value Stream Management Analytics and Value Stream Management Dashboard

Project-level analytics

Use project-level analytics to get insights into your projects':

• Analytics dashboards
• Security Dashboards
• CI/CD analytics and DORA metrics
• Code review analytics
• Contributor analytics
• Insights
• Issue analytics
• Merge request analytics, enabled with the project_merge_request_analytics feature flag
• Repository analytics
• Value Stream Management Analytics and Value Stream Management Dashboard

User-configurable analytics

View vulnerabilities of your selected projects in the Security Center.

Value streams management

Analyze and visualize the performance of your projects and groups with:

• Value stream analytics for projects and groups
• Value streams dashboard

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".