GitLab Integration

• Merge requests — title, author, files changed, additions, deletions, review count
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines — job status, stage duration, environment deployment events
• Commit history with author, timestamp, and diff metadata
• GitLab Issues and milestones for issue-to-MR linkage
• CODEOWNERS file enforcement per repository
• Merge request approvals and reviewer assignments

• DORA deployment frequency — GitLab CI/CD deployments counted per environment
• Lead time for changes — commit-to-deploy pipeline traceability
• Deploy risk scoring — 32 signals using GitLab MR and pipeline data
• Change failure rate — failed pipeline jobs correlated with subsequent incidents
• Reviewer workload analytics and merge request queue health
• CODEOWNERS compliance across GitLab repositories

1. 1

   Go to Settings → Integrations in your Koalr dashboard.

2. 2

   Find GitLab in the integrations list and click Connect.

3. 3

   Authorize Koalr via OAuth. You will be redirected to GitLab to approve read-only access, then returned to your dashboard.

4. 4

   Koalr begins syncing historical data immediately. Most integrations backfill 90 days of history on first connect.

Koalr requests the minimum permissions required to read the data above. All access is read-only unless noted otherwise.

• read_api (read-only REST API access to projects, MRs, and pipelines)
• read_user (read user profile and email for contributor matching)
• read_repository (read file contents including CODEOWNERS)