ChatOps Commands for GitLab.com

Guide for common ChatOps commands used by Support Engineering

Overview

ChatOps commands can be used to service support requests for GitLab.com, especially useful when one does not have admin access. In the interest of maintaining a single source of truth, it is recommended to use the built-in “help” command within ChatOps to see what commands are available or inspecting the code itself.

Note: Before you can use ChatOps, you will need to request access.

Namespace

Uses the GitLab API for managing namespaces.

/chatops run namespace --help

Note: If you are attempting to search for a sub-group and not a top level group, you’ll need to ensure the slash / is encoded to %2F. For example, the path of the sub-group gitlab-com/support should be entered as gitlab-com%2Fsupport.

User

Uses the GitLab API for managing users.

/chatops run user --help

Feature Flags

Used for checking whether a specific feature flag has been enabled on GitLab.com or not.
Used for enabling a feature flag on a project or a group.

/chatops run feature --help

Last modified August 8, 2023: Fix missing support images, fix more links (da201089)

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