GitLab Reviews & Ratings 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Name: GitLab
Rating: 4.3 (20 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on GitLab

Updated 22nd November 2023

What is GitLab?

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. The GitLab DevSecOps platform includes all capabilities required to deliver secure software faster with a unified data store, including source code management, continuous integration and delivery, agile project and portfolio planning, GitOps, software supply chain security, compliance management, and value stream management. GitLab empowers customers to improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, build high-performing teams, and accelerate cloud transformation to maximize the overall return on software development.

Overall experience with GitLab

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

FAVORABLE

“Efficient artifact tracking and in-line invoicing with rigid workspace configuration”

4.0

Jul 4, 2026

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IT ASSOCIATE

3B - 10B USD, Retail

CRITICAL

“Exploring Vulnerability Scanning and Resolution on GitLab”

3.0

Nov 15, 2024

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Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

About Company

Company Description

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. As a software delivery platform for development, security, and operations teams, GitLab brings security and compliance to AI-powered workflows throughout the software delivery lifecycle, helping customers deliver secure software faster. GitLab Duo, the company’s suite of AI capabilities, improves team collaboration and reduces the security and compliance risks of AI adoption by bringing the entire software development lifecycle into a single AI-powered application that is privacy-first. With GitLab, customers can visualize their end-to-end value streams, boost developer productivity with out-of-the-box analytics, and secure their software supply chain with SAST, DAST, secret detection, container scanning, and API testing. It enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate cloud transformations to maximize the overall return on software development.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2014

Head office location

United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

https://about.gitlab.com/

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User Sentiment About GitLab

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Performance of GitLab Across Market Features

GitLab Likes & Dislikes

I like that GitLab automatically builds a complete cryptographic record of metadata for compiled assets, giving us an instantly auditable chain of custody proving our code was built on verified, uncompromised runners. ALso, the platform's merge logic allows administrators to set rigid security thresholds that actively reject code modifications if newly introduced external open-source packages carry unauthorized structural flaws or licensing violations.

Maintenance of software compliance related cicd jobs is tricky. Require more granular level user permissions required to trigger the jobs across shared GitLab projects

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Director of Information Security

Best Practices to create a SBOM with EOS/EOL Timeline to aid vulnerability remediation (currently use GitLab as our pipeline and Nexus repository).

Group Director of Information Security

It's a 5-step process which you will need to correlate for your environment. 1. Integrate dependency scanners (e.g., GitLab's built-in scanner, Trivy, Snyk, OWASP Dependency-Check or your existing Nexus repo) to flag outdated dependencies and use GitLab’s security dashboard to monitor deprecated packages. 2. Set up GitLab CI/CD rules to fail builds if EOL/EOS dependencies are detected and enforce allow/block lists for dependencies using GitLab’s security policies. 3. Configure GitLab to generate reports when a dependency is approaching its EOL and see if you can use GitLab’s webhook integrations to notify security teams via Slack, email, or Jira. 4. Implement dependency auto-updating tools (e.g., Renovate, Dependabot) to replace (identified & manually verified) EOL/EOS components. If no direct upgrade path exists, isolate the outdated component via containerization or sandboxing. 5. Maintain a historical record of all SBOMs and EOL/EOS alerts for compliance audits (ISO 27001, NIST, etc.). Regularly conduct security reviews using GitLab’s security reports.

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22 Feb 2025480 Views1 Comment

IT Analyst

What has been your experience utilizing GITLAB (not GITHUB) to implement CI/CD for Athena and AWS GLUE, specifically for a process to transfer changes in Athena Views from the development environment to production?

CTO

We have used gitlab CI CD pipelines using terraform for all AWS resources, not athena or glue specifically though.

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18 May 20231.1k Views1 Comment

GitLab Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(20 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 35%
4 Star: 50%
3 Star: 15%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Chief Operating Officer (COO)
<50M USD
Services (non-Government)
Review Source
Efficient artifact tracking and in-line invoicing with rigid workspace configuration
4.0
Jul 4, 2026
It is highly valuable for consolidating development and protection into a single dashboard. By anchoring dependency risk tracking and cryptographic build validation directly into the version control interface, it allows our engineers to prevent malicious code injection and verify artifact lineage without jumping between multiple specialized security vendors.

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

<50M USD

Services (non-Government)

Review Source

Efficient artifact tracking and in-line invoicing with rigid workspace configuration

4.0

Jul 4, 2026

It is highly valuable for consolidating development and protection into a single dashboard. By anchoring dependency risk tracking and cryptographic build validation directly into the version control interface, it allows our engineers to prevent malicious code injection and verify artifact lineage without jumping between multiple specialized security vendors.

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Overall experience with GitLab

“Efficient artifact tracking and in-line invoicing with rigid workspace configuration”

“Exploring Vulnerability Scanning and Resolution on GitLab”

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GitLab Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(20 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

Efficient artifact tracking and in-line invoicing with rigid workspace configuration

Efficient artifact tracking and in-line invoicing with rigid workspace configuration

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