Issue analytics

DETAILS: Tier: Premium, Ultimate Offering: GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated

Issue analytics provide insights into the issues created each month in a group or project. A bar chart illustrates the number of issues opened and closed each month. A table displays the top 100 issues based on the global page filters, with the following details about each issue:

• Name
• Age
• Status
• Milestone
• Iteration
• Weight
• Due date
• Assignee
• Author

View issue analytics

To view issue analytics:

1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your project or group.

2. Select Analyze > Issue analytics. To view the total number of issues for a month, hover over a bar.

3. Optional. To filter the results, in Search or filter results text box, enter your criteria:

   • Author
   • Assignee
   • Milestone
   • Label
   • My reaction
   • Weight

4. Optional. To change the total number of months displayed, append the parameter months_back=n to the URL. For example, https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues_analytics?months_back=15 displays a chart with data for 15 months for the GitLab.org group.

You can also access issue analytics from the Value Streams Dashboard through the New issues drill-down report.

Enhanced issue analytics

DETAILS: Tier: Ultimate Offering: GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated

• Introduced in GitLab 16.3 with a flag named issues_completed_analytics_feature_flag. Disabled by default.
• Enabled on GitLab.com and self-managed in GitLab 16.8.
• Feature flag issues_completed_analytics_feature_flag removed in GitLab 16.10.

Enhanced issue analytics display the additional metric Issues closed, which represents the total number of resolved issues in your group over a selected period. You can use this metric to improve the overall turn-around time and value delivered to your customers.