GitLab external content connector

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated August 4, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • The GitLab external content connector retrieves issues, wikis, merge requests, tags, branches, and commits from groups, projects, and repositories in your GitLab.com source system and makes their content and metadata searchable in AI Search applications.

    Connector administrators can run or schedule content crawls to retrieve updated content and access permissions from your source system, or user permission crawls to retrieve updated security principals from your source system. Both types of crawl feed their data to AI Search for indexing.

    The indexed content and metadata are stored as records in a connector-specific indexed source. Search administrators can create search sources from this indexed source and link them to search profiles to make the indexed records searchable in AI Search applications.

    Prerequisites for the GitLab external content connector

    Limitations for the GitLab external content connector

    The GitLab external content connector does not retrieve searchable content from personal GitLab.com projects.

    When retrieving security principals from your GitLab.com source system, the GitLab external content connector does not support any of these security features: