Following the popularity of our existing GitHub integration, we’ve extended similar capabilities to GitLab users. You can now ingest GitLab events directly into Mezmo Telemetry Pipelines and route them to any destination. This provides a powerful new way to monitor, alert, and react to activity within your GitLab repositories.

Why This Matters for Observability

In the world of modern software development, the source control system is more than just a code repository; it's the central hub for a team's development activity. Every commit, merge request, and deployment is a signal that can provide valuable context for observability. By bringing these signals into a unified platform, teams can:

• Enhance Application Monitoring: Correlate GitLab events with application and infrastructure logs to understand the direct impact of code changes on performance and stability.
• Improve Incident Response: Trigger alerts based on specific GitLab events, such as a failed deployment or a new vulnerability detection, to accelerate mean time to resolution (MTTR).
• Gain Deeper Development Insights: Analyze trends in the development process. How often is code being deployed? Which repositories are the most active? Are there bottlenecks in the review process?
• Optimize Telemetry Data Costs from Your SDLC: Trigger changes in your telemetry flow to capture more fidelity, retain more context, or even capture additional signals based on various activities in you SDLC.  Route all telemetry during qa, capture full fidelity only for a short time after deploying new code, and more.

This integration allows you to treat GitLab events as a critical data source within your observability pipeline, creating a more complete picture of your entire system.

How it Works: Simple, Flexible, and Powerful

This integration was designed for flexibility. It leverages our powerful HTTP Source and GitLab’s native webhooks to provide complete control over what data is ingested and where it's sent.

The setup is straightforward:

1. Create an HTTP Source in Mezmo: This generates a unique URL and an authorization key to receive data securely.
2. Configure a Webhook in GitLab: In your GitLab repository settings, create a new webhook and point it to the Mezmo HTTP Source URL. You can select precisely which events you want to send, from push events to comments and merge requests.
3. Route Your Data: Once the data is flowing into your Mezmo pipeline, you can process, enrich, trigger, and route it to any of our supported destinations.

For a detailed, step-by-step guide, please see our support article.

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What’s Next?

The GitLab integration is another step forward in our mission to provide a comprehensive and flexible observability platform. We are committed to expanding our ecosystem of integrations to meet the needs of modern engineering teams. We welcome your feedback as we continue to evolve our capabilities.

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