GitLab Fundamentals - Hands-On Lab: Analytics

This Hands-On Guide walks you through the process of viewing analytics in GitLab.

Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes

Objectives

The goal of this lab is to get an overview of the different analytics available to you in GitLab.

Task A. Viewing your analytics

To start, navigate to your Cool App QA project.

  1. In the left sidebar, select Analyze > Analytics Dashboard.

  2. Select Value Streams Dashboard.

In this report, you will see a variety of analytic details about your current project. Some details you may see populated here after the previous labs are: Merge request throughput, and Median time to merge.

  1. In the left sidebar, select Analyze > CI/CD Analytics.

In this report, you will see details about your Ci/CD pipelines. Here you can see how many pipelines have run in your project, the duration of the pipelines, and failure rates of pipelines.

  1. Take some time to explore the other analytics reports available. Review any insights that seem interesting!

It’s important to note here that you can also view analytics at a group level. To do this, navigate to your QA group. In the left sidebar, you can select Analyze and see similar reports for everything contained in a group.

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Last modified June 16, 2025: GitLab Fundamentals ILT Lab Rewrite (cc8c3b6e)