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Using our GitLab integration

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Written by George Mabey
Updated over a week ago

🎮 What our GitLab integration can do

1️⃣ Export your incident follow-ups to GitLab

You can export your follow-ups to GitLab. We'll sync the status of your tasks, so you can work in GitLab without worrying about updating statuses manually in incident.io!

Use auto-export follow-ups to make sure all your follow-up tasks are tracked in GitLab ✨

You'll see the option to export your follow-ups from the incident homepage:

2️⃣ Link GitLab issues to your follow-ups.

You can copy the reference of issues you already have and linked them back to your incident.io follow-ups.

3️⃣ Attach GitLab Merge Requests to incidents from Slack

You can attach GitLab MRs to your incident directly from the incident channel.

4️⃣ Attach GitLab MRs to incidents from GitLab

You can also attach an MR by mentioning the incident number in the MR title or source branch.

🛠 Setting Up

Adding GitLab to incident.io is simple.

⚡ You'll need a GitLab top-level group owner to perform some of these steps.

1️⃣ Create a Service Account user in GitLab

Follow GitLab's guide to creating a service account. We recommend using 'incident.io' for the name, since this will show up in the UI on issues and comments created by the integration.

🔈 Make sure the bot user has access to create and edit issues, and view and comment on merge requests in all relevant projects.

We recommend assigning the Reporter role to your incident.io service account user.

🔗 See GitLab.com: Permissions and roles

2️⃣ Create a personal access token with no expiry

For scopes, pass api. For name use 'incident.io integration'.

Note the token value for the next step!

3️⃣ Connect the integration

Go to Settings → Integrations, click on GitLab, then Connect.

Paste in the access token created in step 2️⃣ and click Connect. That's it 🎉

If you're using self-managed GitLab, make sure traffic from our IPs can reach your instance.

➡️ Next up

We recommend adding a Group Hook in GitLab, which allows us to sync changes in GitLab back to incident.io. Read our setup guide here.

If you run into any issues, get in touch 👋

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