GitLab Premium/Silver is ideal for scaling organizations and for multi team usage. In addition to the capabilities in lower tiers, GitLab Premium/Silver adds enterprise level support with priority support, live upgrade assistance and a technical account manager and enterprise readiness features like High Availability, Disaster Recovery. It helps manage Compliance, improves developer productivity with productivity analytics, Group and File templates, Merge Request Reviews as well as streamlines project planning with roadmaps, single level epics, issue boards and issue analytics. GitLab premium helps you deploy with confidence with Operations Dashboards, Protected environments and multi project pipelines.
Please note this is not a comprehensive set of capabilities in GitLab Premium/Silver, visit about.gitlab.com/features for the latest. GitLab continuously adds features every month and evaluates features that can be moved to lower tiers to benefit more users.
Premium enables enterprises to:
To cater to scaling enterprises, Premium introduces capabilities that allow enterprises analyze team, project and group trends to uncover patterns and setup consistent standards to improve overall productivity.
90% of Paessler's QA is self served - the QA engineer’s tasks have been slashed from about an hour a day to 30 seconds, a 120x speed increase
Every branch gets tested, it’s built into the pipeline. As soon as you commit your code, the whole process kicks off to get it tested. The amount of effort involved in actually getting to the newest version that you’re supposed to be testing, whether you’re a developer or a QA engineer, is minimized immensely.
Greg Campion
Senior Systems Administrator, Paessler
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Premium supports enterprise grade high availability, disaster recovery and replication for geographically distributed organizations, thereby delivering improved uptime and performance.
Goldman Sachs improves from 1 build every two weeks to over a thousand per day
GitLab has allowed us to dramatically increase the velocity of development in our Engineering Division. We believe GitLab’s dedication to helping enterprises rapidly and effectively bring software to market will help other companies achieve the same sort of efficiencies we have seen inside Goldman Sachs. We now see some teams running and merging 1000+ CI feature branch builds a day!
Andrew Knight
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
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Premium supports features like audit logs, merge request reviewers, verified commiters which allow you to enforce and track compliance policies in your organization.
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Premium introduces priority support (4 business hour support), live upgrade assistance and a Technical Account Manager - who can aid you to achieve your strategic objectives and gain maximum value from your investment in GitLab.
The below list of features are after factoring in the announcement regarding 18 GitLab features moving to core. The timelines of the actual move of features to core in the product will be as per the linked issues in the announcement.
| Features | Value |
| Priority Support | Minimize outages and downtime with 4 hour response time for regular business support and 24x7 uptime support with a guaranteed 30 minute response time |
| Live Upgrade Assistance | Schedule an upgrade time with GitLab. We’ll join a live screen share to help you through the process to ensure there aren't any surprises. |
| Technical Account Manager | The TAM will help guide, plan and shape the deployment and implementation of GitLab, and partner to help you get the best value possible out of your relationship with GitLab. Available to Premium/Silver customers spending $50,000 per year or more on their license. |
| Achieve reliability and performance of your DevOps service through geographic replication and HA/DR solutions. |  |
| Features | Value |
|---|---|
| High Availability via our Reference Architectures | Avoid downtime and outages, ensuring developers are able to work at all times. |
| Disaster Recovery | Fail-over to another data center within minutes |
| Geographic Replication | Reduce latency between distributed teams and increase developer productivity with globally distributed cloning and container registry geographic replication. |
| Ensure your development teams are always able to be productive. Streamline login, avoid downtime, minimize outages and reduce latency between distributed teams. |  |
| Features | Value |
| Productivity Analytics | Analyze graphs and reports to understand team, project, and group productivity for uncovering patterns and best practices to improve overall productivity. |
| Merge Request Reviews | Track and manage code reviews and feedback with built in merge request reviews |
| Group and File Templates | Establish consistent and standard practices |
| Smart Card Authentication | Simplify and streamline logon process to utilize authentication via smartcard |
| Manage multiple agile projects (programs) with intuitive and easy to use dashboards and reports to track issues and milestones across multiple projects. |  |
| Features | Value |
|---|---|
| Roadmaps | Visualize the flow of business initiatives across time in order to plan when future features will ship. |
| Single Level Epics | Manage your portfolio of projects more efficiently by tracking groups of issues that share a theme, across projects and milestones. |
| Group Backlog management | Simplify tracking, scoping and planning future work with group level backlog management on multiple issue boards. |
| Group Milestone Boards/Lists | Visualize future work to be delivered in future releases/milestones. |
| Assignee Boards/Lists | Streamline assignment of work to team members in a graphical assignment board. |
| Group Issue Boards | Visually manage programs (groups) with multiple issue boards where work can be dynamically assigned and tracked. |
| Issue Analytics | Establish consistent and standard practices |
| Accelerate software delivery with integrated deployment and release management. |  |
| Maintain an end to end picture of how your applications are deployed and delivering business value. |  |
| Features | Value |
|---|---|
| Operations Dashboard | a holistic view of the overall health of your company's operations. |
| Multi Project Pipelines | Link CI pipelines from multiple projects to deliver integrated solutions |
| Protected Environments | Establish controls and limit the access to change specific environments |
| Browser Performance Testing | Detect performance regressions for web apps before merging into master. |
| Simplify compliance with and traceability with enterprise features built into the developer's workflow. |  |
| Features | Value |
|---|---|
| Audit Logs | Review changes by user and track access |
| Auditor users | Read-only access to all projects, groups, and other resources on the GitLab instance |
| Merge Request Reviews | Draft multiple comments in a merge request code review and review/resolve comments together |
| Verified Committer | Ensure only authorized and verified team members are allowed to commit to the project |
| Require Signed Commits | Enforce policy to require signed commits from contributors |
| IP Access Restriction | Enable granular access controls to allow specific people access to specific resources like groups and their underlying projects by IP Address. |
