New Relic Gitlab Exporters

Monitor Gitlab with OpenTelemetry and New Relic quickstarts

How to monitor Gitlab with New Relic

Now, you can monitor your Gitlab data with New Relic using New Relic Exporter and Metrics Exporter, making it easier to get observability into your CI/CD pipeline health and performance.

Using these exporters you will be able to:

• Visualise key metrics on your Gitlab pipelines, such as how long your jobs are taking, how often they are failing
• Visualise jobs and pipeline executions as distributed traces with logs in context
• Pinpoint where issues are coming from in your pipelines.
• Create alerts on your Gitlab pipelines.

The next image shows a New Relic dashboard with some of the Gitlab metrics you’ll be able to visualise.

Gitlab Dashboard

New Relic Exporter

Variables	Description	Optional	Values	Default
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTEL_ENDPOINT	New Relic OTEL endpoint including port	True	String	"https://otlp.nr-data.net:4318" or "https://otlp.eu01.nr-data.net:4318"
GLAB_TOKEN	MASKED - Token to access gitlab API	False	String	None
NEW_RELIC_API_KEY	MASKED - New Relic License Key	False	String	None
GLAB_EXPORT_LOGS	Export job logs to New Relic	True	Boolean	True
GLAB_ENDPOINT	Gitlab API endpoint	True	String	"https://gitlab.com"
GLAB_LOW_DATA_MODE	export only bear minimum data (only recommended during testing)	True	Boolean	False
GLAB_CONVERT_TO_TIMESTAMP	converts datetime to timestamp	True	Boolean	False

New Relic Metrics Exporter

Variables	Description	Optional	Values	Default
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTEL_ENDPOINT	New Relic OTEL endpoint including port	True	String	"https://otlp.nr-data.net:4318" or "https://otlp.eu01.nr-data.net:4318"
GLAB_ENDPOINT	Gitlab API endpoint	True	String	"https://gitlab.com"
GLAB_TOKEN	MASKED - Token to access gitlab API	False	String	None
NEW_RELIC_API_KEY	MASKED - New Relic License Key	False	String	None
GLAB_PROJECT_OWNERSHIP	Project ownership	False	String	True
GLAB_PROJECT_VISIBILITIES	Project visibilities (public,private,internal)	False	List*	private
GLAB_DORA_METRICS	Export DORA metrics, requires Gitlab ULTIMATE	True	Bool	False
GLAB_EXPORT_PATHS	Project paths aka namespace full_path to obtain data from	False	List*	None if running as standalone or CI_PROJECT_ROOT_NAMESPACE if running as pipeline schedule
GLAB_RUNNERS_INSTANCE	Obtain runners from gitlab instance instead of project only	True	String
GLAB_EXPORT_PROJECTS_REGEX	Regex to match project names against “.*” for all	False	Boolean	None
GLAB_EXPORT_PATHS_ALL	When True ignore GLAB_EXPORT_PATHS variable and export projects matching GLAB_EXPORT_PROJECTS_REGEX in any groups or subgroups	True	Boolean	False
GLAB_CONVERT_TO_TIMESTAMP	converts datetime to timestamp	True	Boolean	False
GLAB_EXPORT_LAST_MINUTES	The amount past minutes to export data from	True	Integer	60
GLAB_ATTRIBUTES_DROP	Attributes to drop from logs and spans events	True	List*	None
GLAB_DIMENSION_METRICS	Extra dimensional metric attributes to add to each metric	True	List*	NONE Note the following attributes will always be set as dimensions regardless of this setting: status,stage,name
GLAB_RUNNERS_SCOPE	Get runners scope : all, active, paused, online, shared, specific (separated by comma)	True	List*	all
GLAB_STANDALONE	Set to True if not running as gitlab pipeline schedule	True	Boolean	False
GLAB_ENVS_DROP	Extra system environment variables to drop from span attributes	True	List*	Note the following environment variables will always be dropped regardless of this setting: NEW_RELIC_API_KEY,GITLAB_FEATURES,CI_SERVER_TLS_CA_FILE,CI_RUNNER_TAGS,CI_JOB_JWT,CI_JOB_JWT_V1,CI_JOB_JWT_V2,GLAB_TOKEN,GIT_ASKPASS,CI_COMMIT_BEFORE_SHA,CI_BUILD_TOKEN,CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_PASSWORD,CI_RUNNER_SHORT_TOKEN,CI_BUILD_BEFORE_SHA,CI_BEFORE_SHA,OTEL_EXPORTER_OTEL_ENDPOINT,GLAB_DIMENSION_METRICS
*comma separated

Default configuration is based on using Gitlab runners with docker executor

If using Kubernetes executors instead, use the below configuration

image:
    name: docker.io/dpacheconr/gitlab-exporter:1.0.16
    entrypoint: [""]
  script:
    - python3 -u /app/main.py
    - echo "Done"

New Relic Quickstart

https://newrelic.com/instant-observability/gitlab

How to

https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/monitor-gitlab-with-opentelemetry

Alternative to running new relic metrics exporter as pipeline schedule: Rather than running in a GitLab pipeline the New Relic Metrics exporter can also be run independently enabling standalone mode. To run in Docker for instance run the following:

docker run -e GLAB_STANDALONE=True -e GLAB_EXPORT_PATHS="dpacheconr" -e GLAB_EXPORT_PROJECTS_REGEX=".*" -e GLAB_TOKEN=glpat.... -e NEW_RELIC_API_KEY=....NRAL docker.io/dpacheconr/gitlab-metrics-exporter:1.0.15

Contributing

We encourage your contributions to improve Gitlab Exporters! Keep in mind when you submit your pull request, you'll need to sign the CLA via the click-through using CLA-Assistant. You only have to sign the CLA one time per project. If you have any questions, or to execute our corporate CLA, required if your contribution is on behalf of a company, please drop us an email at opensource@newrelic.com.

A note about vulnerabilities

As noted in our security policy, New Relic is committed to the privacy and security of our customers and their data. We believe that providing coordinated disclosure by security researchers and engaging with the security community are important means to achieve our security goals.

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in this project or any of New Relic's products or websites, we welcome and greatly appreciate you reporting it to New Relic through HackerOne.

License

Gitlab Exporters are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

Gitlab Exporters also use source code from third-party libraries. You can find full details on which libraries are used and the terms under which they are licensed in the third-party notices document.