GitLab.com settings
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This page contains information about the settings that are used on GitLab.com, available to GitLab SaaS customers.
See some of these settings on the instance configuration page of GitLab.com.
Email confirmation
GitLab.com has the:
-
email_confirmation_setting
setting set to Hard. -
unconfirmed_users_delete_after_days
setting set to three days.
Password requirements
GitLab.com has the following requirements for passwords on new accounts and password changes:
- Minimum character length 8 characters.
- Maximum character length 128 characters.
- All characters are accepted. For example,
~
,!
,@
,#
,$
,%
,^
,&
,*
,()
,[]
,_
,+
,=
, and-
.
SSH key restrictions
GitLab.com uses the default SSH key restrictions.
SSH host keys fingerprints
Go to the current instance configuration to see the SSH host key fingerprints on GitLab.com.
- Sign in to GitLab.
- On the left sidebar, select Help ({question-o}) > Help.
- On the Help page, select Check the current instance configuration.
In the instance configuration, you see the SSH host key fingerprints:
Algorithm | MD5 (deprecated) | SHA256 |
---|---|---|
ECDSA | f1:d0:fb:46:73:7a:70:92:5a:ab:5d:ef:43:e2:1c:35 |
SHA256:HbW3g8zUjNSksFbqTiUWPWg2Bq1x8xdGUrliXFzSnUw |
ED25519 | 2e:65:6a:c8:cf:bf:b2:8b:9a:bd:6d:9f:11:5c:12:16 |
SHA256:eUXGGm1YGsMAS7vkcx6JOJdOGHPem5gQp4taiCfCLB8 |
RSA | b6:03:0e:39:97:9e:d0:e7:24:ce:a3:77:3e:01:42:09 |
SHA256:ROQFvPThGrW4RuWLoL9tq9I9zJ42fK4XywyRtbOz/EQ |
The first time you connect to a GitLab.com repository, one of these keys is displayed in the output.
known_hosts
entries
SSH Add the following to .ssh/known_hosts
to skip manual fingerprint
confirmation in SSH:
gitlab.com ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAfuCHKVTjquxvt6CM6tdG4SLp1Btn/nOeHHE5UOzRdf
gitlab.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCsj2bNKTBSpIYDEGk9KxsGh3mySTRgMtXL583qmBpzeQ+jqCMRgBqB98u3z++J1sKlXHWfM9dyhSevkMwSbhoR8XIq/U0tCNyokEi/ueaBMCvbcTHhO7FcwzY92WK4Yt0aGROY5qX2UKSeOvuP4D6TPqKF1onrSzH9bx9XUf2lEdWT/ia1NEKjunUqu1xOB/StKDHMoX4/OKyIzuS0q/T1zOATthvasJFoPrAjkohTyaDUz2LN5JoH839hViyEG82yB+MjcFV5MU3N1l1QL3cVUCh93xSaua1N85qivl+siMkPGbO5xR/En4iEY6K2XPASUEMaieWVNTRCtJ4S8H+9
gitlab.com ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBFSMqzJeV9rUzU4kWitGjeR4PWSa29SPqJ1fVkhtj3Hw9xjLVXVYrU9QlYWrOLXBpQ6KWjbjTDTdDkoohFzgbEY=
Mail configuration
GitLab.com sends emails from the mg.gitlab.com
domain by using Mailgun,
and has its own dedicated IP addresses:
23.253.183.236
69.72.35.190
69.72.44.107
159.135.226.146
161.38.202.219
192.237.158.143
192.237.159.239
198.61.254.136
198.61.254.160
209.61.151.122
The IP addresses for mg.gitlab.com
are subject to change at any time.
Service Desk alias email address
On GitLab.com, there's a mailbox configured for Service Desk with the email address:
contact-project+%{key}@incoming.gitlab.com
. To use this mailbox, configure the
custom suffix in project
settings.
Backups
To back up an entire project on GitLab.com, you can export it either:
- Through the UI.
- Through the API. You can also use the API to programmatically upload exports to a storage platform, such as Amazon S3.
With exports, be aware of what is and is not included in a project export.
GitLab is built on Git, so you can back up just the repository of a project by cloning it to another computer. Similarly, you can clone a project's wiki to back it up. All files uploaded after August 22, 2020 are included when cloning.
Delayed group deletion
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After May 08, 2023, all groups have delayed deletion enabled by default.
Groups are permanently deleted after a seven-day delay.
If you are on the Free tier, your groups are immediately deleted, and you will not be able to restore them.
You can view and restore groups marked for deletion.
Delayed project deletion
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After May 08, 2023, all groups have delayed project deletion enabled by default.
Projects are permanently deleted after a seven-day delay.
If you are on the Free tier, your projects are immediately deleted, and you will not be able to restore them.
You can view and restore projects marked for deletion.
Inactive project deletion
Inactive project deletion is disabled on GitLab.com.
Alternative SSH port
GitLab.com can be reached by using a different SSH port for git+ssh
.
Setting | Value |
---|---|
Hostname |
altssh.gitlab.com |
Port |
443 |
An example ~/.ssh/config
is the following:
Host gitlab.com
Hostname altssh.gitlab.com
User git
Port 443
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitlab
GitLab Pages
Some settings for GitLab Pages differ from the defaults for self-managed instances:
Setting | GitLab.com |
---|---|
Domain name | gitlab.io |
IP address | 35.185.44.232 |
Support for custom domains | {check-circle} Yes |
Support for TLS certificates | {check-circle} Yes |
Maximum site size | 1 GB |
Number of custom domains per GitLab Pages website | 150 |
The maximum size of your Pages site depends on the maximum artifact size, which is part of GitLab CI/CD.
Rate limits also exist for GitLab Pages.
GitLab container registry
Setting | GitLab.com |
---|---|
Domain name | registry.gitlab.com |
IP address | 35.227.35.254 |
CDN domain name | cdn.registry.gitlab-static.net |
CDN IP address | 34.149.22.116 |
To use the GitLab container registry, Docker clients must have access to:
- The registry endpoint and GitLab.com for authorization.
- Google Cloud Storage or Google Cloud Content Delivery Network to download images.
GitLab.com is fronted by Cloudflare. For incoming connections to GitLab.com, you must allow CIDR blocks of Cloudflare (IPv4 and IPv6).
GitLab CI/CD
Below are the current settings regarding GitLab CI/CD. Any settings or feature limits not listed here are using the defaults listed in the related documentation.
Setting | GitLab.com | Default (self-managed) |
---|---|---|
Artifacts maximum size (compressed) | 1 GB | See Maximum artifacts size. |
Artifacts expiry time | From June 22, 2020, deleted after 30 days unless otherwise specified (artifacts created before that date have no expiry). | See Default artifacts expiration. |
Scheduled Pipeline Cron | */5 * * * * |
See Pipeline schedules advanced configuration. |
Maximum jobs in active pipelines |
500 for Free tier, 1000 for all trial tiers, 20000 for Premium, and 100000 for Ultimate. |
See Number of jobs in active pipelines. |
Maximum CI/CD subscriptions to a project | 2 |
See Number of CI/CD subscriptions to a project. |
Maximum number of pipeline triggers in a project |
25000 for all tiers |
See Limit the number of pipeline triggers. |
Maximum pipeline schedules in projects |
10 for Free tier, 50 for all paid tiers |
See Number of pipeline schedules. |
Maximum pipelines per schedule |
24 for Free tier, 288 for all paid tiers |
See Limit the number of pipelines created by a pipeline schedule per day. |
Maximum number of schedule rules defined for each security policy project | Unlimited for all paid tiers | See Number of schedule rules defined for each security policy project. |
Scheduled job archiving | 3 months (from June 22, 2020). Jobs created before that date were archived after September 22, 2020. | Never. |
Maximum test cases per unit test report | 500000 |
Unlimited. |
Maximum registered runners | Free tier: 50 per-group / 50 per-projectAll paid tiers: 1000 per-group / 1000 per-project |
See Number of registered runners per scope. |
Limit of dotenv variables | Free tier: 50 / Premium tier: 100 / Ultimate tier: 150
|
See Limit dotenv variables. |
Authorization token duration (minutes) | 15 |
To set a custom value, in the Rails console, run ApplicationSetting.last.update(container_registry_token_expire_delay: <integer>) , where <integer> is the desired number of minutes. |
Maximum downstream pipeline trigger rate (for a given project, user, and commit) |
350 per minute |
See Maximum downstream pipeline trigger rate. |
Package registry limits
The maximum file size for a package uploaded to the GitLab package registry varies by format:
Package type | GitLab.com |
---|---|
Conan | 5 GB |
Generic | 5 GB |
Helm | 5 MB |
Maven | 5 GB |
npm | 5 GB |
NuGet | 5 GB |
PyPI | 5 GB |
Terraform | 1 GB |
Account and limit settings
GitLab.com has the following account limits enabled. If a setting is not listed, the default value is the same as for self-managed instances:
Setting | GitLab.com default |
---|---|
Repository size including LFS | 10 GB |
Maximum import size | 5 GiB |
Maximum export size | 40 GiB |
Maximum remote file size for imports from external object storages | 10 GiB |
Maximum download file size when importing from source GitLab instances by direct transfer | 5 GiB |
Maximum attachment size | 100 MiB |
Maximum decompressed file size for imported archives | 25 GiB |
Maximum push size | 5 GiB |
If you are near or over the repository size limit, you can either:
NOTE:
git push
and GitLab project imports are limited to 5 GiB per request through
Cloudflare. Imports other than a file upload are not affected by
this limit. Repository limits apply to both public and private projects.
Default import sources
The import sources that are available to you by default depend on which GitLab you use:
- GitLab.com: all available import sources are enabled by default.
- GitLab self-managed: no import sources are enabled by default and must be enabled.
IP range
GitLab.com uses the IP ranges 34.74.90.64/28
and 34.74.226.0/24
for traffic from its Web/API
fleet. This whole range is solely allocated to GitLab. You can expect connections from webhooks or repository mirroring to come
from those IPs and allow them.
GitLab.com is fronted by Cloudflare. For incoming connections to GitLab.com, you might need to allow CIDR blocks of Cloudflare (IPv4 and IPv6).
For outgoing connections from CI/CD runners, we are not providing static IP addresses.
All GitLab.com instance runners are deployed into Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in us-east1
.
Any IP-based firewall can be configured by looking up
IP address ranges or CIDR blocks for GCP.
Hostname list
Add these hostnames when you configure allow-lists in local HTTP(S) proxies, or other web-blocking software that governs end-user computers. Pages on GitLab.com load content from these hostnames:
gitlab.com
*.gitlab.com
*.gitlab-static.net
*.gitlab.io
*.gitlab.net
Documentation and Company pages served over docs.gitlab.com
and about.gitlab.com
also load certain page content directly from common public CDN hostnames.
Webhooks
The following limits apply for webhooks.
Rate limits
The number of times a webhook can be called per minute, per top-level namespace. The limit varies depending on your plan and the number of seats in your subscription.
Plan | Default for GitLab.com |
---|---|
Free | 500 |
Premium |
99 seats or fewer: 1,600 100-399 seats: 2,800 400 seats or more: 4,000
|
Ultimate and open source |
999 seats or fewer: 6,000 1,000-4,999 seats: 9,000 5,000 seats or more: 13,000
|
Other limits
Setting | Default for GitLab.com |
---|---|
Number of webhooks | 100 per project, 50 per group (subgroup webhooks are not counted towards parent group limits ) |
Maximum payload size | 25 MB |
Timeout | 10 seconds |
Multiple Pages deployments | 100 extra deployments (Premium tier), 500 extra deployments (Ultimate tier) |
For self-managed instance limits, see:
Runner SaaS
Runner SaaS is the hosted, secure, and managed build environment you can use to run CI/CD jobs for your GitLab.com hosted project.
For more information, see Runner SaaS.
Puma
GitLab.com uses the default of 60 seconds for Puma request timeouts.
Maximum number of reviewers and assignees
- Maximum assignees introduced in GitLab 15.6.
- Maximum reviewers introduced in GitLab 15.9.
Merge requests enforce these maximums:
- Maximum assignees: 200
- Maximum reviewers: 200
GitLab.com-specific rate limits
NOTE: See Rate limits for administrator documentation.
When a request is rate limited, GitLab responds with a 429
status
code. The client should wait before attempting the request again. There
are also informational headers with this response detailed in
rate limiting responses.
The following table describes the rate limits for GitLab.com:
Rate limit | Setting |
---|---|
Protected paths for an IP address | 10 requests per minute |
Raw endpoint traffic for a project, commit, or file path | 300 requests per minute |
Unauthenticated traffic from an IP address | 500 requests per minute |
Authenticated API traffic for a user | 2,000 requests per minute |
Authenticated non-API HTTP traffic for a user | 1,000 requests per minute |
All traffic from an IP address | 2,000 requests per minute |
Issue creation | 200 requests per minute |
Note creation on issues and merge requests | 60 requests per minute |
Advanced, project, or group search API for an IP address | 10 requests per minute |
GitLab Pages requests for an IP address | 1,000 requests per 50 seconds |
GitLab Pages requests for a GitLab Pages domain | 5,000 requests per 10 seconds |
GitLab Pages TLS connections for an IP address | 1,000 requests per 50 seconds |
GitLab Pages TLS connections for a GitLab Pages domain | 400 requests per 10 seconds |
Pipeline creation requests for a project, user, or commit | 25 requests per minute |
Alert integration endpoint requests for a project | 3,600 requests per hour |
Pull mirroring intervals | 5 minutes |
API requests from a user to /api/v4/users/:id
|
300 requests per 10 minutes |
GitLab package cloud requests for an IP address (introduced in GitLab 16.11) | 3,000 requests per minute |
More details are available on the rate limits for protected paths and raw endpoints.
GitLab can rate-limit requests at several layers. The rate limits listed here are configured in the application. These limits are the most restrictive per IP address. For more information about the rate limits for GitLab.com, see an overview.
Rate limiting responses
For information on rate limiting responses, see:
Protected paths throttle
GitLab.com responds with HTTP status code 429
to POST requests at protected
paths that exceed 10 requests per minute per IP address.
See the source below for which paths are protected. This includes user creation, user confirmation, user sign in, and password reset.
User and IP rate limits includes a list of the headers responded to blocked requests.
See Protected Paths for more details.
IP blocks
IP blocks can occur when GitLab.com receives unusual traffic from a single IP address that the system views as potentially malicious. This can be based on rate limit settings. After the unusual traffic ceases, the IP address is automatically released depending on the type of block, as described in a following section.
If you receive a 403 Forbidden
error for all requests to GitLab.com,
check for any automated processes that may be triggering a block. For
assistance, contact GitLab Support
with details, such as the affected IP address.
Git and container registry failed authentication ban
GitLab.com responds with HTTP status code 403
for 15 minutes, if 300 failed
authentication requests were received in a 1-minute period from a single IP address.
This applies only to Git requests and container registry (/jwt/auth
) requests
(combined).
This limit:
- Is reset by requests that authenticate successfully. For example, 299 failed authentication requests followed by 1 successful request, followed by 299 more failed authentication requests would not trigger a ban.
- Does not apply to JWT requests authenticated by
gitlab-ci-token
.
No response headers are provided.
git
requests over https
always send an unauthenticated request first, which for private repositories results in a 401
error.
git
then attempts an authenticated request with a username, password, or access token (if available).
These requests might lead to a temporary IP block if too many requests are sent simultaneously.
To resolve this issue, use SSH keys to communicate with GitLab.
Pagination response headers
For performance reasons, if a query returns more than 10,000 records, GitLab excludes some headers.
Visibility settings
Projects, groups, and snippets have the Internal visibility setting disabled on GitLab.com.
SSH maximum number of connections
GitLab.com defines the maximum number of concurrent, unauthenticated SSH
connections by using the MaxStartups setting.
If more than the maximum number of allowed connections occur concurrently, they
are dropped and users get
an ssh_exchange_identification
error.
Group and project import by uploading export files
To help avoid abuse, the following are rate limited:
- Project and group imports.
- Group and project exports that use files.
- Export downloads.
For more information, see:
Non-configurable limits
See non-configurable limits for information on rate limits that are not configurable, and therefore also used on GitLab.com.
GitLab.com-specific Gitaly RPC concurrency limits
Per-repository Gitaly RPC concurrency and queuing limits are configured for different types of Git operations such as git clone
. When these limits are exceeded, a fatal: remote error: GitLab is currently unable to handle this request due to load
message is returned to the client.
For administrator documentation, see limit RPC concurrency.
GitLab.com logging
We use Fluentd
to parse our logs. Fluentd sends our logs to
Stackdriver Logging
and Cloud Pub/Sub.
Stackdriver is used for storing logs long-term in Google Cold Storage (GCS).
Cloud Pub/Sub is used to forward logs to an Elastic cluster using pubsubbeat
.
You can view more information in our runbooks such as:
- A detailed list of what we're logging
- Our current log retention policies
- A diagram of our logging infrastructure
Job logs
By default, GitLab does not expire job logs. Job logs are retained indefinitely, and can't be configured on GitLab.com to expire. You can erase job logs manually with the Jobs API or by deleting a pipeline.
GitLab.com at scale
In addition to the GitLab Enterprise Edition Linux package install, GitLab.com uses the following applications and settings to achieve scale. All settings are publicly available, as Kubernetes configuration or Chef cookbooks.
Elastic cluster
We use Elasticsearch and Kibana for part of our monitoring solution:
Fluentd
We use Fluentd to unify our GitLab logs:
Prometheus
Prometheus complete our monitoring stack:
Grafana
For the visualization of monitoring data:
Sentry
Open source error tracking:
Consul
Service discovery:
HAProxy
High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer:
Sidekiq
GitLab.com runs Sidekiq as an external process for Ruby job scheduling.
The current settings are in the GitLab.com Kubernetes pod configuration.