Developer Tools · Integration
GitLab
Add GitLab to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Embed a GitLab integration so your customers can work their own projects, issues, merge requests, and pipelines from inside your product, whether they are on GitLab.com or a self-managed instance. Events arrive through triggers and can be replayed after an outage, so a webhook missed during downtime is not silently lost. fastn handles per-customer authorisation, instance URLs, and API upkeep.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let customers read issues and merge requests from their own projects into your product.
Create or update issues from your product so work captured by users lands in the right project.
Read pipeline and job status so build health is visible where the team already works.
Trigger your product when a merge request opens, a pipeline fails, or an issue is closed.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reads an issue and its discussion before proposing a change.
An agent opens or comments on an issue or merge request within scoped permissions, with each action audited.
An agent reacts to a failed pipeline and gathers the job log detail an engineer needs.
Example prompt
List merge requests open more than a week with no review, plus any pipeline that failed on the default branch today.
Set up GitLab in 4 steps
- 01Open the GitLab connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authenticate their own GitLab account and supply their instance URL if self-managed.
- 03Map the projects and fields your product uses, then enable actions and event triggers.
- 04Call them from your product, or expose them to an agent through the MCP server.
Why teams use the GitLab integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a GitLab integration without building it. Your customers connect their own GitLab account inside your product and work their services, builds and deployments there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: these systems emit a lot of webhooks, and replay after downtime has to be handled. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a GitLab update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed GitLab connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you connect engineering activity to the rest of the business without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a GitLab integration to my product?
Enable the GitLab connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own GitLab account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no GitLab client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own GitLab account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own GitLab account and only ever sees their own services, builds and deployments. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this GitLab integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reads an issue and its discussion before proposing a change.
Who maintains the GitLab integration?
fastn does. When GitLab changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can I react to GitLab events in real time?
Yes, through event triggers. Events are delivered per tenant and can be replayed after an outage, so a webhook missed during downtime is not silently lost.
Can an agent open or update items in GitLab?
Yes, within scoped permissions, and every action is audited so an agent's changes are attributable.
What can I build with the GitLab integration?
A common starting point: read issues and merge requests from their own projects into your product. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the GitLab integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding GitLab does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add GitLab to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.