GitLab.com settings (FREE SAAS)
This page contains information about the settings that are used on GitLab.com.
SSH host keys fingerprints
Below are the fingerprints for GitLab.com's SSH host keys. The first time you connect to a GitLab.com repository, one of these keys is displayed in the output.
| Algorithm | MD5 (deprecated) | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| ED25519 | 2e:65:6a:c8:cf:bf:b2:8b:9a:bd:6d:9f:11:5c:12:16 |
eUXGGm1YGsMAS7vkcx6JOJdOGHPem5gQp4taiCfCLB8 |
| RSA | b6:03:0e:39:97:9e:d0:e7:24:ce:a3:77:3e:01:42:09 |
ROQFvPThGrW4RuWLoL9tq9I9zJ42fK4XywyRtbOz/EQ |
| DSA (deprecated) | 7a:47:81:3a:ee:89:89:64:33:ca:44:52:3d:30:d4:87 |
p8vZBUOR0XQz6sYiaWSMLmh0t9i8srqYKool/Xfdfqw |
| ECDSA | f1:d0:fb:46:73:7a:70:92:5a:ab:5d:ef:43:e2:1c:35 |
HbW3g8zUjNSksFbqTiUWPWg2Bq1x8xdGUrliXFzSnUw |
SSH known_hosts entries
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 address (192.237.158.143).
The IP address for mg.gitlab.com is subject to change at any time.
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.
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/gitlabGitLab Pages
Below are the settings for GitLab Pages.
| Setting | GitLab.com | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Domain name | gitlab.io |
- |
| IP address | 35.185.44.232 |
- |
| Custom domains support | {check-circle} Yes | {dotted-circle} No |
| TLS certificates support | {check-circle} Yes | {dotted-circle} No |
| Maximum size (compressed) | 1 GB | 100 MB |
The maximum size of your Pages site is regulated by the artifacts maximum size, which is part of GitLab CI/CD.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Artifacts maximum size (compressed) | 1 GB | 100 MB |
| Artifacts expiry time | From June 22, 2020, deleted after 30 days unless otherwise specified (artifacts created before that date have no expiry). | deleted after 30 days unless otherwise specified |
| Scheduled Pipeline Cron | */5 * * * * |
3-59/10 * * * * |
| Max jobs in active pipelines |
500 for Free tier, unlimited otherwise |
Unlimited |
| Max CI/CD subscriptions to a project | 2 |
Unlimited |
| Max pipeline schedules in projects |
10 for Free tier, 50 for all paid tiers |
Unlimited |
| Scheduled Job Archival | 3 months | Never |
| Max test cases per unit test report | 500_000 |
Unlimited |
| Max registered runners |
50 per-project and per-group for Free tier,1_000 per-group for all paid tiers / 1_000 per-project for all paid tiers |
1_000 per-group / 1_000 per-project |
Account and limit settings
GitLab.com has the following account limits enabled. If a setting is not listed, it is set to the default value.
If you are near or over the repository size limit, you can reduce your repository size with Git.
| Setting | GitLab.com | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Repository size including LFS | 10 GB | Unlimited |
| Maximum import size | 5 GB | Unlimited (Modified from 50MB to unlimited in GitLab 13.8. |
| Maximum attachment size | 10 MB | 10 MB |
NOTE:
git push and GitLab project imports are limited to 5 GB per request through
Cloudflare. Git LFS and imports other than a file upload are not affected by
this limit.
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 runners are deployed into Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Any IP-based firewall can be configured by looking up all 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:
| Setting | GitLab.com | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Webhook rate limit |
120 calls per minute for GitLab Free, unlimited for GitLab Premium and GitLab Ultimate |
Unlimited |
| Number of webhooks |
100 per project, 50 per group |
100 per project, 50 per group |
| Maximum payload size | 25 MB | 25 MB |
Shared runners
GitLab has shared runners on GitLab.com that you can use to run your CI jobs.
For more information, see choosing a runner.
Sidekiq
GitLab.com runs Sidekiq with arguments --timeout=4 --concurrency=4
and the following environment variables:
| Setting | GitLab.com | Default |
|---|---|---|
SIDEKIQ_DAEMON_MEMORY_KILLER |
- | 1 |
SIDEKIQ_MEMORY_KILLER_MAX_RSS |
2000000 |
2000000 |
SIDEKIQ_MEMORY_KILLER_HARD_LIMIT_RSS |
- | - |
SIDEKIQ_MEMORY_KILLER_CHECK_INTERVAL |
- | 3 |
SIDEKIQ_MEMORY_KILLER_GRACE_TIME |
- | 900 |
SIDEKIQ_MEMORY_KILLER_SHUTDOWN_WAIT |
- | 30 |
SIDEKIQ_LOG_ARGUMENTS |
1 |
1 |
NOTE:
The SIDEKIQ_MEMORY_KILLER_MAX_RSS setting is 16000000 on Sidekiq import
nodes and Sidekiq export nodes.
PostgreSQL
GitLab.com being a fairly large installation of GitLab means we have changed various PostgreSQL settings to better suit our needs. For example, we use streaming replication and servers in hot-standby mode to balance queries across different database servers.
The list of GitLab.com specific settings (and their defaults) is as follows:
| Setting | GitLab.com | Default |
|---|---|---|
archive_command |
/usr/bin/envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env /opt/wal-e/bin/wal-e wal-push %p |
empty |
archive_mode |
on | off |
autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor |
0.01 | 0.01 |
autovacuum_max_workers |
6 | 3 |
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit |
1000 | -1 |
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor |
0.01 | 0.02 |
checkpoint_completion_target |
0.7 | 0.9 |
checkpoint_segments |
32 | 10 |
effective_cache_size |
338688MB | Based on how much memory is available |
hot_standby |
on | off |
hot_standby_feedback |
on | off |
log_autovacuum_min_duration |
0 | -1 |
log_checkpoints |
on | off |
log_line_prefix |
%t [%p]: [%l-1] |
empty |
log_min_duration_statement |
1000 | -1 |
log_temp_files |
0 | -1 |
maintenance_work_mem |
2048MB | 16 MB |
max_replication_slots |
5 | 0 |
max_wal_senders |
32 | 0 |
max_wal_size |
5GB | 1GB |
shared_buffers |
112896MB | Based on how much memory is available |
shared_preload_libraries |
pg_stat_statements | empty |
shmall |
30146560 | Based on the server's capabilities |
shmmax |
123480309760 | Based on the server's capabilities |
wal_buffers |
16MB | -1 |
wal_keep_segments |
512 | 10 |
wal_level |
replica | minimal |
statement_timeout |
15s | 60s |
idle_in_transaction_session_timeout |
60s | 60s |
Some of these settings are in the process being adjusted. For example, the value
for shared_buffers is quite high, and we are
considering adjusting it.
Puma
GitLab.com uses the default of 60 seconds for Puma request timeouts.
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, both before and after the limits change in January, 2021:
| Rate limit | Before 2021-01-18 | From 2021-01-18 | From 2021-02-12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protected paths (for a given IP address) | 10 requests per minute | 10 requests per minute | 10 requests per minute |
| Raw endpoint traffic (for a given project, commit, and file path) | 300 requests per minute | 300 requests per minute | 300 requests per minute |
| Unauthenticated traffic (from a given IP address) | No specific limit | 500 requests per minute | 500 requests per minute |
| Authenticated API traffic (for a given user) | No specific limit | 2,000 requests per minute | 2,000 requests per minute |
| Authenticated non-API HTTP traffic (for a given user) | No specific limit | 1,000 requests per minute | 1,000 requests per minute |
| All traffic (from a given IP address) | 600 requests per minute | 2,000 requests per minute | 2,000 requests per minute |
| Issue creation | 300 requests per minute | 300 requests per minute | |
| Note creation (on issues and merge requests) | 300 requests per minute | 60 requests per minute |
More details are available on the rate limits for protected paths and raw endpoints.
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 1 hour, if 30 failed
authentication requests were received in a 3-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, 29 failed authentication requests followed by 1 successful request, followed by 29 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.
Pagination response headers
For performance reasons, if a query returns more than 10,000 records, GitLab doesn't return the following headers:
-
x-total. -
x-total-pages. -
rel="last"link.
Visibility settings
If created before GitLab 12.2 (July 2019), these items have the Internal visibility setting disabled on GitLab.com:
- Projects
- Groups
- Snippets
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.
Import/export
To help avoid abuse, project and group imports, exports, and export downloads are rate limited. See Project import/export rate limits and Group import/export rate limits for details.
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 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 Omnibus install, GitLab.com uses the following applications and settings to achieve scale. All settings are publicly available at 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: