Add latest changes from gitlab-org/gitlab@14-7-stable-eev14.7.0-rc42

14 files changed, 88 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/doc/operations/error_tracking.md b/doc/operations/error_tracking.md
index 68a0d492c5d..7533646aa34 100644
--- a/doc/operations/error_tracking.md
+++ b/doc/operations/error_tracking.md
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated w
 
 # Error Tracking **(FREE)**
 
-> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/169) in GitLab 11.8.
-
 Error Tracking allows developers to easily discover and view the errors that their application may be generating. By surfacing error information where the code is being developed, efficiency and awareness can be increased.
 
 ## How error tracking works
diff --git a/doc/operations/feature_flags.md b/doc/operations/feature_flags.md
index 49898d2e904..b0a180b5635 100644
--- a/doc/operations/feature_flags.md
+++ b/doc/operations/feature_flags.md
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated w
 
 # Feature Flags **(FREE)**
 
-> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/7433) in GitLab 11.4.
-> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/212318) from GitLab Premium to GitLab Free in 13.5.
+> [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/212318) from GitLab Premium to GitLab Free in 13.5.
 
 With Feature Flags, you can deploy your application's new features to production in smaller batches.
 You can toggle a feature on and off to subsets of users, helping you achieve Continuous Delivery.
diff --git a/doc/operations/incident_management/incidents.md b/doc/operations/incident_management/incidents.md
index 64dea795d3c..ada1f426dd8 100644
--- a/doc/operations/incident_management/incidents.md
+++ b/doc/operations/incident_management/incidents.md
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ To create an incident from the Issues List:
 
 ### Create incidents automatically **(ULTIMATE)**
 
-> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/4925) in GitLab 11.11.
-
 With at least the Maintainer [role](../../user/permissions.md), you can enable
  GitLab to create incident automatically whenever an alert is triggered:
 
diff --git a/doc/operations/index.md b/doc/operations/index.md
index ec54b6c57b9..5a83e47b556 100644
--- a/doc/operations/index.md
+++ b/doc/operations/index.md
@@ -9,11 +9,17 @@ info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated w
 GitLab provides a variety of tools to help operate and maintain
 your applications.
 
-## Measure reliability and stability with metrics
+## Measure reliability and stability with metrics (DEPRECATED)
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346485) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346485)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 Metrics help you understand the health and performance of your infrastructure,
 applications, and systems by providing insights into your application's reliability,
-stability, and performance. GitLab provides a dashboard out-of-the-box, which you
+stability, and performance. GitLab provides a default dashboard that you
 can extend with custom metrics, and augment with additional custom dashboards. You
 can track the metrics that matter most to your team, generate automated alerts when
 performance degrades, and manage those alerts - all within GitLab.
@@ -30,13 +36,13 @@ performance degrades, and manage those alerts - all within GitLab.
 GitLab helps reduce alert fatigue for IT responders by providing tools to identify
 issues across multiple systems and aggregate alerts in a centralized place. Your
 team needs a single, central interface where they can easily investigate alerts
-using metrics and logs, and promote the critical alerts to incidents.
+and promote the critical alerts to incidents.
 
 Are your alerts too noisy? Alerts configured on GitLab metrics can configured
 and fine-tuned in GitLab immediately following a fire-fight.
 
 - [Manage alerts and incidents](incident_management/index.md) in GitLab.
-- [Configure alerts for metrics](metrics/alerts.md) in GitLab.
+- [Configure alerts for metrics](metrics/alerts.md) in GitLab. (DEPRECATED)
 - Create a [status page](incident_management/status_page.md)
   to communicate efficiently to your users during an incident.
 
@@ -51,7 +57,13 @@ and the work required to fix them - all without leaving GitLab.
 - Discover and view errors generated by your applications with
   [Error Tracking](error_tracking.md).
 
-## Trace application health and performance
+## Trace application health and performance (DEPRECATED)
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346485) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346485)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 Application tracing in GitLab is a way to measure an application's performance and
 health while it's running. After configuring your application to enable tracing, you
@@ -65,7 +77,13 @@ microservices-based distributed systems - and displays results within GitLab.
 
 - [Trace the performance and health](tracing.md) of a deployed application.
 
-## Aggregate and store logs
+## Aggregate and store logs (DEPRECATED)
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346485) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346485)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 Developers need to troubleshoot application changes in development, and incident
 responders need aggregated, real-time logs when troubleshooting problems with
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/alerts.md b/doc/operations/metrics/alerts.md
index 44999ad7cd6..712ee04e916 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/alerts.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/alerts.md
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ Alerts are not currently supported for [Prometheus cluster integrations](../../u
 
 ## External Prometheus instances
 
-> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/9258) in GitLab Ultimate 11.8.
-> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/42640) to GitLab Free in 12.10.
+> [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/42640) to GitLab Free in 12.10.
 
 For manually configured Prometheus servers, GitLab provides a notify endpoint for
 use with Prometheus webhooks. If you have manual configuration enabled, an
@@ -61,8 +60,6 @@ Prometheus server to use the
 
 ## Trigger actions from alerts **(ULTIMATE)**
 
-> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/4925) in GitLab 11.11.
-
 Alerts can be used to trigger actions, like opening an issue automatically
 (disabled by default since `13.1`). To configure the actions:
 
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/default.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/default.md
index 2be26e843c4..295c146f0d5 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/default.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/default.md
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# GitLab-defined metrics dashboards **(FREE)**
+# GitLab-defined metrics dashboards (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 GitLab provides some dashboards out-of-the-box for any project with
 [Prometheus available](../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md). You can
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/develop.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/develop.md
index 28a4488014a..38f375c40a6 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/develop.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/develop.md
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Developing templates for custom dashboards **(FREE)**
+# Developing templates for custom dashboards (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 GitLab provides a template to make it easier for you to create templates for
 [custom dashboards](index.md). Templates provide helpful guidance and
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/index.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/index.md
index d59f72f2a91..9a75703a2f1 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/index.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/index.md
@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Custom dashboards **(FREE)**
+# Custom dashboards (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
 
-> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/59974) in GitLab 12.1.
+> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/59974) in GitLab 12.1.
+> - [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 By default, all projects include a [GitLab-defined Prometheus dashboard](default.md), which
 includes a few key metrics, but you can also define your own custom dashboards.
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/panel_types.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/panel_types.md
index 140e18b5b13..9b015760fe9 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/panel_types.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/panel_types.md
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Panel types for dashboards **(FREE)**
+# Panel types for dashboards (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 The below panel types are supported in monitoring dashboards.
 
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/settings.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/settings.md
index f14d326a0d3..f4c37718c52 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/settings.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/settings.md
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Dashboard settings **(FREE)**
+# Dashboard settings (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 You can configure your [Monitoring dashboard](../index.md) to
 display the time zone of your choice, and the links of your choice.
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/templating_variables.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/templating_variables.md
index 20071300dec..8ccd334dac3 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/templating_variables.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/templating_variables.md
@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Templating variables for metrics dashboards **(FREE)**
+# Templating variables for metrics dashboards (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
 
-> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/214539) in GitLab 13.0.
+> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/214539) in GitLab 13.0.
+> - [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 Templating variables can be used to make your metrics dashboard more versatile.
 
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/variables.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/variables.md
index fa79524883d..0008706df40 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/variables.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/variables.md
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Using variables **(FREE)**
+# Using variables (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 ## Query variables
 
diff --git a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/yaml.md b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/yaml.md
index 8068a66d5c4..9d1c270388e 100644
--- a/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/yaml.md
+++ b/doc/operations/metrics/dashboards/yaml.md
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Dashboard YAML properties **(FREE)**
+# Dashboard YAML properties (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
+
+> [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346541)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 Dashboards have several components:
 
diff --git a/doc/operations/tracing.md b/doc/operations/tracing.md
index 1593607cc98..09a31c12bf4 100644
--- a/doc/operations/tracing.md
+++ b/doc/operations/tracing.md
@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@ group: Monitor
 info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
 ---
 
-# Tracing **(FREE)**
+# Tracing (DEPRECATED) **(FREE)**
 
-> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/7903) in GitLab 11.5.
 > - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/42645) from GitLab Ultimate to GitLab Free in 13.5.
+> - [Deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346540) in GitLab 14.7.
+
+WARNING:
+This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is [deprecated](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346540)
+for use in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 15.0.
 
 Tracing provides insight into the performance and health of a deployed application, tracking each
 function or microservice that handles a given request. Tracing makes it easy to understand the