# Monitoring GitLab

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.
- [Monitoring uptime](../../user/admin_area/monitoring/health_check.md): Check the server status using the health check endpoint.
  - [IP whitelists](ip_whitelist.md): Configure GitLab for monitoring endpoints that provide health check information when probed.
- [nginx_status](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/nginx.html#enablingdisabling-nginx_status): Monitor your Nginx server status