GitLab Integration with Aria Operations (vROps) for Custom Data Reporting Dashboards

[Kumar Ragunathan]

I'm working on a project to integrate GitLab with VMware Aria Operations (vROps) to generate customized dashboards and reports. This integration aims to provide visibility into key GitLab metrics, such as:

• Pipeline status

• Issue tracking

• Project activity trends

• Incidents tracking
• DORA metrics

Using vROps, we can visualize and monitor GitLab data in real time, enabling better operational insights and proactive management. The custom dashboards will help DevOps and Infra teams track GitLab usage and performance directly within the Aria Operations environment.

[Brad Peterson]

Hi @Kumar Ragunathan, 

Integrating GitLab with vROps for real-time dashboards typically involves a few moving parts: 

 

• Extracting structured data from GitLab (e.g., pipelines, issues, DORA metrics)
• Normalizing and transforming that data for use in Aria Operations
• Ensuring updates are timely and reliable, especially for large instances
• This often requires more than just basic API calls-especially if you want time-series trends, incident tracking, or project-level filtering. 

 

There are enterprise -grade integration tools that support custom mappings, delta syncs, and webhook/event-based triggers to automate this flow. They avoid the overhead of writing and maintaining scripts while keeping dashboards up to date. One such integration tool you may consider is  OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) that supports this type of setup and can help when teams want to track GitLab metrics in platforms like vROps in real-time. 

Hope it helps! :)