Admin Area settings (FREE SELF)

As an administrator of a GitLab self-managed instance, you can manage the behavior of your deployment.

The Admin Area is not accessible on GitLab.com, and settings can only be changed by the GitLab.com administrators. For the settings and limits on the GitLab.com instance, read GitLab.com settings.

Access the Admin Area

To access the Admin Area:

  1. Sign in to your GitLab instance as an administrator.
  2. On the top bar, select Menu > Admin.
  3. On the left sidebar, select Settings, and the group of settings to view:

General

The General settings contain:

CI/CD

The CI/CD settings contain:

Geo (PREMIUM SELF)

The Geo setting contains:

  • Geo - Replicate your GitLab instance to other geographical locations. Redirects to Admin Area > Geo > Settings are no longer available at Admin Area > Settings > Geo in GitLab 13.0.

Integrations

The Integrations settings contain:

  • Elasticsearch - Elasticsearch integration. Elasticsearch AWS IAM.
  • Kroki - Allow rendering of diagrams in AsciiDoc and Markdown documents using kroki.io.
  • Mailgun - Enable your GitLab instance to receive invite email bounce events from Mailgun, if it is your email provider.
  • PlantUML - Allow rendering of PlantUML diagrams in documents.
  • Slack application - Slack integration allows you to interact with GitLab via slash commands in a chat window. This option is only available on GitLab.com, though it may be available for self-managed instances in the future.
  • Third party offers - Control the display of third-party offers.
  • Snowplow - Configure the Snowplow integration.
  • Google GKE - Google GKE integration enables you to provision GKE clusters from GitLab.
  • Amazon EKS - Amazon EKS integration enables you to provision EKS clusters from GitLab.

Metrics and profiling

The Metrics and profiling settings contain:

Network

The Network settings contain:

Preferences

The Preferences settings contain:

Reporting

The Reporting settings contain:

Repository

The Repository settings contain:

Templates (PREMIUM SELF)

The Templates settings contain:

Default first day of the week

You can change the Default first day of the week for the entire GitLab instance:

  1. On the top bar, select Menu > Admin.
  2. On the left sidebar, select Settings > Preferences.
  3. Scroll to the Localization section, and select your desired first day of the week.