GitLab CI Dashboard Centralized Pipeline & Schedule Monitoring

Introduction

Managing GitLab pipelines across multiple projects can be a challenge. The native functionality of GitLab limits views to the project level, making it difficult to get a high-level overview of all pipeline activities. Recentyl I was looking for way to have all pipeline in a centrialze location. There are many diffrent opions for it You can monitor pipelines with monitoring tools and have dahsboards etc. I found The GitLab CI Dashboard solves this problem by providing a centralized dashboard for monitoring pipelines, schedules, and their statuses across entire GitLab groups.

The Project : gitlab-ci-dashboard

There is a demo also You can check : gitlab-ci-dashboard-demo

Key Features

• View all pipeline statuses for your group (success, failure, cancellation)
• Track all scheduled pipelines within your group
• No rate-limiting from GitLab’s API thanks to efficient server-side caching
• Single access token for your entire team, whether read-only or read/write
• Perform advanced actions like restarting, creating, or canceling pipelines (with write token)

Completed Features

• Display of latest pipeline statuses across the group
• Detailed view of all pipelines within the group
• Complete list of scheduled pipelines
• Direct links to GitLab pipelines
• Monitor individual job statuses
• Download artifacts directly from jobs
• Search for projects by name
• Filter pipelines by status or tags
• Mark favorite projects for quick access
• Create new pipelines (requires write token)
• Retry failed pipelines (requires write token)
• Cancel pipelines (requires write token)

Planned Features

• Overview of registries (containers/packages) within the group
• Feel free to share suggestions for additional features!

Prerequisites

• A GitLab server (API v4)
• API token (read-only or read/write scope)
• Docker installed on your local machine

Installation Guide

1. Generate your GitLab API token
   Create a personal access token here, with either read_api (for read-only) or api (for write access).

1. Run the Docker container:

docker run -p PORT:8080 \
  -e GITLAB_BASE_URL=https://gitlab.com \
  -e GITLAB_API_TOKEN=my_token \
  larscom/gitlab-ci-dashboard:latest

You can use also docker-compose :

version: '3.8'

services:
  gitlab-dashboard:
    image: larscom/gitlab-ci-dashboard:latest
    ports:
      - "9980:8080"
    env_file:
      - .env-ci-dashboard
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./gitlab-dashboard-data:/data-ci-dashboard 
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:9980"]
      interval: 500s
      timeout: 100s
      retries: 10

GITLAB_BASE_URL=https://gitlab.guneycansanli.com
GITLAB_API_TOKEN=XXxxXXXXXxxxXXXXXxxXXXXXxXXXXX

1. Visit http://localhost:PORT in your browser

   The dashboard will display all available groups and their associated projects by default.

Creating / Cancelling / Retrying Pipelines

To enable write actions:

• Set API_READ_ONLY=false
• Provide a valid read/write GitLab access token

Disable Write Actions (Hide Ellipsis Button)

To hide the option for write actions:

UI_HIDE_WRITE_ACTIONS=true

Prometheus Metrics

Metrics are exposed at:

http://localhost:PORT/metrics/prometheus

Configurable Environment Variables

GitLab CI Dashboard is designed to streamline pipeline monitoring across your GitLab groups with minimal configuration required, making it a must-have tool for DevOps teams.

Thanks for reading!

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