DevOps adoption by group

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• Added to the Registration Features Program in GitLab 16.6.

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DevOps adoption shows you how groups in your organization adopt and use GitLab features. This information is available for groups and instances.

Use DevOps adoption for groups to:

• Identify subgroups that are lagging in their adoption of GitLab features, so you can guide them on their DevOps journey.
• Find subgroups that have adopted certain features, and provide guidance to other subgroups on how to use those features.
• Verify if you are getting the return on investment that you expected from GitLab.

Feature adoption

DevOps adoption shows feature adoption for development, security, and operations.

Category	Feature
Development	Approvals
Code owners
Issues
Merge requests
Security	DAST
Dependency scanning
Fuzz testing
SAST
Operations	Deployments
Pipelines
Runners

A feature shows as adopted when a group or subgroup has used the feature in a project in the last full calendar month. For example, if an issue was created in a project in a group, the group has adopted issues in that time.

The Overview tab illustrates the:

• Total number of features adopted.
• Features adopted in each category.
• Number of features adopted in each category by month in the Adoption over time bar chart. The chart shows only data from the date you enabled DevOps adoption for the group.
• Number of features adopted in each category by subgroup in the Adoption by subgroup table.

The Dev, Sec, and Ops tabs illustrate the features adopted in development, security, and operations by subgroup.

The DevOps adoption report excludes:

• Dormant projects. The number of projects that use a feature is not considered. Having many dormant projects doesn't lower the adoption.
• New GitLab features. Adoption is the total number of features adopted, not the percent of features.

Data processing

A weekly task processes data for DevOps adoption. This task is disabled until you access DevOps adoption for a group for the first time.

The data processing task updates the data on the first day of each month. If the monthly update fails, the task tries daily until it succeeds.

DevOps adoption data may take up to a minute to appear while GitLab processes the group's data.

View DevOps adoption for groups

Prerequisites:

• You must have the Reporter, Developer, Maintainer, or Owner role for the group.

To view DevOps adoption:

1. In the top bar, select Search or go to and find your group.
2. Select Analyze > DevOps adoption.
3. To view the features adopted by category in a month, hover over a bar.

Add a subgroup to DevOps adoption

Prerequisites:

• You must have the Reporter, Developer, Maintainer, or Owner role for the group.

To add a subgroup to the DevOps adoption report:

1. In the top bar, select Search or go to and find your group.
2. Select Analyze > DevOps adoption.
3. From the Add or remove subgroups dropdown list, select the subgroup you want to add.

Remove a subgroup from DevOps adoption

Prerequisites:

• You must have the Reporter, Developer, Maintainer, or Owner role for the group.

To remove a subgroup from the DevOps adoption report:

1. In the top bar, select Search or go to and find your group.
2. Select Analyze > DevOps adoption.
3. Either:

• From the Add or remove subgroups dropdown list, clear the subgroup you want to remove.
• From the Adoption by subgroup table, in the row of the group you want to remove, select Remove Group from the table ({{< icon name="remove" >}}).