Protected resources

This article provides information about protected resources, elements, and metadata in GitLab cloud and GitLab self-managed.

GitLab Protected Data

ANALYZE

• Code Review Analytics

• Contributor Analytics

• Insights

• Issue Analytics

• Repository Analytics

BUILD

• Archived Test Cases

• Jobs

• Open Test Cases

• Pipelines

• Test Case Confidentiality

• Test Case Description

• Test Case Labels

• Test Case Title

• Test Cases

DEPLOY

• Feature Flag Description

• Feature Flag Name

• Feature Flag Strategies

• Feature Flags

• Pages

• Release

• Release Assets

• Release Links

• Release Milestone

• Release Note

ISSUE BOARDS

• Board Title

• Label Column

ISSUES

• Assignees

• Closed Issues

• Confidentiality

• Creation Date {*}

• Creator {*}

• Due Date

• Issue Assets

• Issue Comments

• Issue Description {*}

• Labels Assigned

• Open Issues

• Projects Assigned

{*} — restored as comments in format: [{creation date}] {user name}: {content}; the author of these restored comments will always be the account performing the restore task, not the original commenter.

LABELS

• Assigned Issues

• Assigned Pull Requests

• Color

• Description

• Name

MILESTONES

• Assigned Issues

• Assigned Pull Requests

• Closed Milestones

• Description

• Due Date

• Open Milestones

• Start Date

• Title

MONITOR

• Incidents

OPERATE

• Environments

• Environment External URL

• Environment Name

• Environment State

PROJECT SETTINGS

• Default Branch

• Deploy Keys

• Descriptions

• Project Name

• Webhooks

PULL REQUESTS

• Assignees

• Comments (restored as comments in format: [Posted by {creation date}] {user name}: {content}; the author of comments is the account performing the restore task)

• Commits

• Description

• Labels

• Merged Pull Requests (restored as closed issue due to API limitations)

• Milestones

• Open Pull Requests

• Reviewers

• Closed Pull Requests (restored as closed issue due to API limitations)

REPOSITORY

• Branches

• Commit Creator

• Commit Text

• Commits

• LFS

• Logs

• Objects

• Refs

• Repository Name

• Tags

• Wiki

REQUIREMENTS

• Archived

• Open

• Requirement Description

• Requirement Title

SNIPPETS

• Comments

• Description

• File Content

• File Name

• Title

• Visibility

GitLab Groups Protected Data

ANALYZE

• Contributor Analytics

• Insights

• Issue Analytics

LABELS

• Color

• Description

• Title

MEMBERS

• Expiration Date

• Member

• Role

MILESTONES

• Closed Milestones

• Description

• Due Date

• Open Milestones

• Start Date

• Title

POLICIES

• Actions

• Description

• Merge Request Approval Policy

• Name

• Rules

• Scan Execution Policy

• Scope

• Settings

• Status

PUSH RULES

• Branch Name

• Check whether the Commit Author is GitLab User

• Commit Author's Email

• Do not allow users to remove Git Tags with Git Push

• Maximum File Size

• Prohibited File Names

• Prevent Pushing Secret Files

• Reject Expression in Commit Messages

• Reject Unsigned Commits

• Reject Unverified Users

• Require Expression in Commit Messages

SETTINGS

• Badges

• Email Notifications

• Group Description

• Group Mentions are Disabled

• Invited Groups

• LFS Use

• Merge Request - All Threads Must be Resolved

• Merge Request - Pipeline Must Succeed

• Roles Allowed to Create Projects

• Roles Allowed to Create Subgroups

• Subgroups

• Users Cannot be Added to Projects

• Users Can Request Access

VARIABLES

• Environments

• Key

• Masked

• Protect Variable

• Type

• Value

WEBHOOKS

• Comment

• Confidential Comments

• Confidential Issue Events

• Deployment Events

• Issues Events

• Job Events

• Merge Request Events

• Pipeline Events

• Push Events

• Releases Events

• SSL Verification

• Subgroup Events

• Tag Push Events

• URL

• Wiki Page Events

WIKI

• Content

• Page Title