GitLab integrations (FREE)

You can integrate GitLab with external services for enhanced functionality.

Services

Services such as Campfire, Jira, Pivotal Tracker, and Slack are available as integrations.

Issue trackers

You can use an external issue tracker with the GitLab issue tracker or use an external issue tracker only.

Authentication sources

You can integrate GitLab with the following authentication sources:

  • Enable the Auth0 OmniAuth provider.
  • Enable sign-in with Bitbucket accounts.
  • Authenticate with Kerberos.
  • Enable sign-in with LDAP.
  • Enable creating OAuth 2.0 applications.
  • Use OmniAuth to enable sign-in through:
    • Authentiq ID
    • Azure
    • Bitbucket
    • Crowd
    • Facebook
    • GitHub
    • GitLab.com
    • Google
    • SAML
    • Twitter
  • Use GitLab as an OpenID Connect identity provider.
  • Authenticate with Vault through GitLab OpenID Connect.
  • Configure GitLab as a SAML 2.0 Service Provider.

Security enhancements

You can integrate GitLab with the following security enhancements:

GitLab also provides features to improve the security of your own application. For more details, see Secure your application.

Security partners

You can integrate GitLab with several security partners. For more information, see Security partner integrations.

Continuous integration

You can integrate GitLab with the following external services for continuous integration:

  • Jenkins CI.
  • Datadog to monitor for CI/CD job failures and performance issues.

Feature enhancements

You can integrate GitLab with the following feature enhancements:

Troubleshooting

SSL certificate errors

When integrating GitLab with services using a self-signed certificate, you might encounter SSL certificate errors in different parts of the application.

As a workaround, you can do one of the following:

Search Sidekiq logs in Kibana

To locate a specific integration in Kibana, use the following KQL search string:

`json.integration_class.keyword : "Integrations::Jira" and json.project_path : "path/to/project"`

You can find information in:

  • json.exception.backtrace
  • json.exception.class
  • json.exception.message
  • json.message