Data Schema, Ontology & Contracts
Iglu schemas, the ontology, event taxonomy, and SDK contracts — shipped as linters, CI checks, and templates that teams use without asking.
Event Platform
Everything between an event happening in GitLab and that event sitting safely on the queue: instrumentation, ingestion, and the contracts events must meet.
Scope
Everything between “an event happens somewhere in GitLab” and “that event is safely on the queue” belongs to this group: instrumenting the application, running the ingesters, and defining the contracts events must meet. Once an event lands on the Data Infrastructure movement layer, that group carries it from there.
Teams
- Events Instrumentation SDKs: internal events, instrumentation SDKs, and the collection backend.
- Ingestion and Streaming: the Snowplow and CloudEvents ingesters, plus third-party integrations.
- Data Schema, Ontology & Contracts: Iglu schemas, the ontology, event taxonomy, and SDK contracts.
Ingestion and Streaming
Gets every event from its producer onto the message queue: the Snowplow and CloudEvents ingesters and third-party integrations.
Last modified October 9, 2026: Add GitLab Brain as a new handbook section (
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