This page aims to surface a multi-dimensional view of product by collecting the various facets that contribute to category health for ongoing review and improvement. Visit maturity to see our framework for categories, application types, and stages that considers adoption and user experience.
Note: How this data is aggregated, and instructions on what fields required updated are below.
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Integrations | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Works by default | 5 BE, 2 FE | Documentation | |||||||||||
| Foundations | Foundations | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-12-22 | Works by default | 3 FE | Documentation |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package | Container Registry | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-07-22 | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 5 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Package | Package Registry | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-03-22 | Dogfooding: Planned | Works by default | 5 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Package | Helm Chart Registry | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-06-22 | Dogfooding: Planned | Works by default | 5 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Package | Dependency Proxy | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-09-22 | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 5 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Package | Dependency Firewall | Direction | Investment Plan | Planned | Dogfooding: Not applicable (planned) | Works by default | 5 BE, 1 FE | |||||||||||
| Package | Git LFS | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Viable on 2022-02-22 | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 5 BE, 1 FE | Documentation |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release | Continuous Delivery | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Complete | Lovable on 2022-12-22 | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||
| Release | Advanced Deployments | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Viable | Complete on 2022-08-22 | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | |||||
| Release | Feature Flags | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Viable | Complete on 2022-11-22 | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | |||||
| Release | Release Orchestration | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Viable | Complete on 2022-03-22 | UX Scorecard: F | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||
| Release | Release Evidence | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Viable on 2022-06-22 | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||
| Release | Pages | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Complete | Lovable on 2023-11-18 | UX Scorecard: C | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||
| Release | Environment Management | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Viable on 2021-10-22 | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Documentation |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Configure | Auto DevOps | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | UX Scorecard: C | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Configure | Infrastructure as Code | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2021-12-22 | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Configure | Kubernetes Management | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2021-12-22 | UX Scorecard: C | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | ||||||||
| Configure | Cluster Cost Management | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Dogfooding: Not planned | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Configure | ChatOps | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Configure | Secrets Management | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Dogfooding: Not planned | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Configure | Delivery Management | Direction | Investment Plan | Planned | Works by default | 5 BE |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor | Error Tracking | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||
| Monitor | Incident Management | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Viable | Complete on 2021-12-22 | UX Scorecard: C | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||
| Monitor | On-call Schedule Management | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Viable on 2021-10-22 | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Planned | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | |||||
| Monitor | Metrics | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||
| Monitor | Tracing | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Usability Issues | [Dogfooding: N/a](This category is at the "minimal" level of maturity and is not actively being worked on.) | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||
| Monitor | Logging | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Usability Issues | [Dogfooding: N/a](This category is at the "minimal" level of maturity and is not actively being worked on.) | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||
| Monitor | Synthetic Monitoring | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Planned | Dogfooding: N/a | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | |||||||||
| Monitor | GitLab Self-Monitoring | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Monitor | Runbooks | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Minimal | Viable on 2022-06-22 | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: N/a | Works by default | 4 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Static Analysis | SAST | Direction | Investment Plan | Complete | Lovable on 2023-11-18 | UX Scorecard: D | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Static Analysis | Secret Detection | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-06-22 | Usability Issues | Works by default | 5 BE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||||
| Static Analysis | Code Quality | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Viable on 2022-12-22 | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Dynamic Analysis | DAST | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-04-22 | UX Scorecard: C | Works by default | 5 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Dynamic Analysis | IAST | Direction | Investment Plan | Planned | Works by default | 5 BE | ||||||||||||
| Dynamic Analysis | Attack Emulation | Direction | Investment Plan | Planned | Works by default | 5 BE | ||||||||||||
| Dynamic Analysis | Fuzz Testing | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2023-11-18 | Usability Issues | Works by default | 5 BE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||||
| Composition Analysis | Dependency Scanning | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-04-22 | UX Scorecard: F | Works by default | 4 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Composition Analysis | License Compliance | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2023-12-22 | UX Scorecard: F | Works by default | 4 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Threat Insights | Vulnerability Management | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-07-22 | UX Scorecard: D | Usability Issues | Works by default | 4 BE, 3 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | |||||||
| Vulnerability Research | Vulnerability Database | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | 2 BE | |||||||||||||
| Vulnerability Research | Security Benchmarking | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | 2 BE | Top Issues |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Container Security | Security Orchestration | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||||
| Container Security | Container Network Security | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||||
| Container Security | Container Host Security | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||||
| Container Security | Container Scanning | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2023-05-22 | Works by default | 3 BE, 1 FE | Documentation |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Machine Learning | Workflow Automation | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | Top Issues | ||||||||||||
| Applied Machine Learning | Insider Threat | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | Top Issues | ||||||||||||
| Applied Machine Learning | Intelligent Code Security | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | Top Issues | ||||||||||||
| MLOps | MLOps | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | Top Issues | ||||||||||||
| DataOps | DataOps | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | Top Issues |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activation | Activation Experiment | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | 2 BE | Top Issues | |||||||||||
| Activation | Onboarding | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | 2 BE | |||||||||||||
| Conversion | Conversion Experiment | Direction | Investment Plan | UX Scorecard: D | Usability Issues | Works by default | 2 BE | Top Issues | ||||||||||
| Expansion | Expansion Experiment | Direction | Investment Plan | UX Scorecard: C | Usability Issues | Works by default | 2 BE | Top Issues | ||||||||||
| Adoption | Adoption Experiment | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | 2 BE | Top Issues | |||||||||||
| Product Intelligence | Product Analytics | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Viable on 2022-06-01 | Usability Issues | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE | Top Issues | Documentation | ||||||||
| Product Intelligence | Usage Ping | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2021-12-01 | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Product Intelligence | Service Ping | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2021-12-01 | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Product Intelligence | Privacy Control Center | Direction | Investment Plan | Planned | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase | Purchase | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | 4 BE, 4 FE | |||||||||||||
| License | License | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | 5 BE | |||||||||||||
| Utilization | Utilization | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | 3 BE |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution | Omnibus Package | Direction | Investment Plan | Lovable | UX Scorecard: C | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 9 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Distribution | Cloud Native Installation | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2021-09-22 | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | 9 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Geo | Geo-replication | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-04-22 | UX Scorecard: C | Dogfooding: Planned | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | ||||||||
| Geo | Disaster Recovery | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-01-22 | Dogfooding: Planned | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Geo | Backup/Restore of GitLab instances | Direction | Investment Plan | Minimal | Viable on 2021-10-22 | Works by default | 7 BE, 1 FE | Documentation | ||||||||||
| Memory | Memory | Direction | Investment Plan | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 5 BE | ||||||||||||
| Global Search | Global Search | Direction | Investment Plan | Viable | Complete on 2022-01-22 | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 2 BE | Documentation | |||||||||
| Database | Database | Direction | Investment Plan | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 5 BE | ||||||||||||
| Sharding | Sharding | Direction | Investment Plan | Dogfooding: Exclusive | Works by default | 4 BE |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery | Delivery | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | Documentation | |||||||||||||
| Scalability | Scalability | Direction | Investment Plan | Dogfooding: Limited | Works by default | Documentation | ||||||||||||
| Project Horse | Horse | Direction | Investment Plan | Works by default | Documentation |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DevOps for Mobile Apps | Mobile App Signing & Deployment Management | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Dogfooding: Not planned | Works by default | Top Issues |
| Group | Category | Direction | Investment Plan | GMAU | Paid GMAU | Analyst Reports | Competitive Comparison | Current Maturity | Planned Maturity | UX Scorecard | Usability Issues | Dogfooding? | Works by default? | Auto DevOps | Capacity | Velocity | Top Issues | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five Minute Production App | 5 Minute Production App | Direction | Investment Plan | Usability Issues | Works by default | 1 BE | Top Issues |
This data is gathered primarily from the categories.yml and stages.yml files. This table shows where each field comes from, indicating what needs to be added and where:
| Field | File | Property | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group | stages.yml |
name |
|
| Category | categories.yml |
name |
|
| Direction | categories.yml |
direction |
|
| Investment Plan | none | n/a | Links to /handbook/product/investment, with anchor based on group name |
| GMAU | stages.yml |
pi_gmau |
Expected to be a link |
| Paid GMAU | stages.yml |
pi_pgmau |
Expected to be a link |
| Analyst Reports | stages.yml |
analyst_reports |
Expected to be a list of title and url |
| Competitive Comparison | stages.yml |
comp_comparison |
Expected to be a link |
| Current Maturity | categories.yml |
maturity |
|
| Planned Maturity | categories.yml |
available / viable / complete / lovable |
|
| UX Scorecard | categories.yml |
ux_scorecard_link & ux_scorecard_score |
Link should be a link, Score should be a letter grade |
| Usability Issues | categories.yml |
label |
Links to issue search based on label |
| Dogfooding? | categories.yml |
dogfooding_issue & dogfooding_status |
Issue should be a link, Status should be a text value |
| Works by default? | none | n/a | Links to /handbook/product/works-by-default, with anchor based on group name |
| Auto DevOps | unimplemented | Not currently implemented, nothing to link to curently | |
| Capacity | stages.yml |
be_team_tag / fe_team_tag / fs_team_tag |
|
| Velocity | unimplemented | Not currently implemented. | |
| Top Issues | categories.yml |
Links to issue search based on label | |
| Docs | categories.yml |
documentation |
