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diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_instance_administration_project/index.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_instance_administration_project/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8e33cea6217 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_instance_administration_project/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +# GitLab instance administration project + +> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/56883) in GitLab 12.2. + +GitLab has been adding the ability for administrators to see insights into the health of +their GitLab instance. In order to surface this experience in a native way, similar to how +you would interact with an application deployed via GitLab, a base project called +"GitLab Instance Administration" with +[internal visibility](../../../public_access/public_access.md#internal-projects) will be +added under a group called "GitLab Instance Administrators" specifically created for +visualizing and configuring the monitoring of your GitLab instance. + +All administrators at the time of creation of the project and group will be added +as maintainers of the group and project, and as an admin, you'll be able to add new +members to the group in order to give them maintainer access to the project. + +This project will be used for self-monitoring your GitLab instance. + +## Connection to Prometheus + +The project will be automatically configured to connect to the +[internal Prometheus](../prometheus/index.md) instance if the Prometheus +instance is present (should be the case if GitLab was installed via Omnibus +and you haven't disabled it). + +If that's not the case or if you have an external Prometheus instance or an HA setup, +you should +[configure it manually](../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md#manual-configuration-of-prometheus). + +## Taking action on Prometheus alerts **[ULTIMATE]** + +You can [add a webhook](../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md#external-prometheus-instances) +to the Prometheus config in order for GitLab to receive notifications of any alerts. + +Once the webhook is setup, you can +[take action on incoming alerts](../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md#taking-action-on-incidents-ultimate). diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/index.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/index.md index fa0459b24ff..2b3daec42bd 100644 --- a/doc/administration/monitoring/index.md +++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/index.md @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ Explore our features to monitor your GitLab instance: +- [GitLab self-monitoring](gitlab_instance_administration_project/index.md): The + GitLab instance administration project helps to monitor the GitLab instance and + take action on alerts. - [Performance monitoring](performance/index.md): GitLab Performance Monitoring makes it possible to measure a wide variety of statistics of your instance. - [Prometheus](prometheus/index.md): Prometheus is a powerful time-series monitoring service, providing a flexible platform for monitoring GitLab and other software products. - [GitHub imports](github_imports.md): Monitor the health and progress of GitLab's GitHub importer with various Prometheus metrics. |