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They represent major features, overarching goals, or long-term initiatives within your project. Need to revamp your website? That's an epic! Epics help you organize your work into larger, manageable chunks.  \n* [Issues](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/): Issues are the individual tasks or work items that contribute to your project goals. Each issue represents a specific action, like \"design the homepage\" or \"write the 'about us' page.\" Issues are the building blocks of your project, and they provide a clear way to track individual tasks.  \n* [Labels](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/labels.html): Labels are like tags that help you categorize and filter your work. You can use labels to indicate priority (e.g., high, medium, low), status (e.g., to do, in progress, done), or assign issues to specific teams or individuals. Labels provide a flexible way to organize and prioritize your work.  \n* Boards: GitLab's issue boards are your visual workspace. They provide a Kanban-style view of your project, allowing you to see the status of all your issues at a glance. Drag and drop issues across different lists (e.g., \"To Do,\" \"Doing,\" \"Done\") to visualize your workflow and track progress. In GitLab, you can create boards for [issues](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html) and [Epics](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/epic_boards.html).  \n* [Milestones](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/milestones/): Milestones mark significant checkpoints or target dates within your project. They help you track progress towards specific goals and deadlines. For example, you might have milestones for completing a major feature, releasing a beta version, or launching the final product.  \n* [Tasks](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/tasks.html): For those extra granular steps, break down your issues into smaller tasks. This helps with delegation, clarifies individual responsibilities, and ensures nothing gets overlooked. Tasks provide a way to create checklists within issues, making it easier to track progress on complex tasks.\n\n## Deep dive into the features\n\n### 1. Epics: The big picture\n\n* Creating epics: Navigate to your group's \"Epics\" menu under “Plan”. Click **New epic** and give it a descriptive title and a clear description outlining the goal. You can also specify the start and end date of the epic – this is useful when using [Roadmaps](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/roadmap/).\n\n![Epic creation page](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image1_aHR0cHM6_1750097300817.png)\n\n* [Roadmaps](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/roadmap/): Add your epics to a roadmap to visualize your project timeline and long-term goals. Roadmaps provide a bird's-eye view of your project plan, making it easy to see the big picture and track progress towards major milestones.\n\n![Roadmap view](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image8_aHR0cHM6_1750097300818.png)\n\n### 2. Issues: Getting things done\n\n* Creating issues: In your project, go to the \"Issues\" menu under “Plan” and click **New issue**. Provide a concise and descriptive title like \"Design Homepage Wireframes,\" assign it to a team member, set a due date, and add a detailed description outlining the task's requirements.  \n* GitLab Duo: You can leverage the power of [GitLab Duo to create detailed issue descriptions](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/managing_issues.html#populate-an-issue-with-issue-description-generation) with just a little hint of what you want to achieve.  \n* Weighting: Estimate the effort required for each issue by assigning weights. This helps with planning and prioritization. For example, a simple task might have a weight of **1**, while a more complex task might have a weight of **5**.\n\n![Issue with weight of 4 assigned](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image4_aHR0cHM6_1750097300819.png)\n\n### 3. Labels: Organizing your work\n\n* Creating labels: Go to your project's \"Issues\" tab and click Labels. Create custom labels with clear names to categorize your issues. For example, create labels like **Priority: High**, **Status: In Progress**, or **Team: Design**. Apply these labels to your issues to keep them organized and easily filterable.\n\n![Labels screen](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image6_aHR0cHM6_1750097300820.png)\n\n### 4. Boards: Visualizing your workflow\n\n* Kanban boards: GitLab's boards provide a Kanban-style view of your project. Create lists like \"To Do,\" \"Doing,\" and \"Done\" to represent the stages of your workflow. Drag and drop issues across these lists to visualize their progress.\n* Customizing boards: Tailor your boards to match your specific workflow. Add more columns, filter issues by labels or assignees, and set up swim lanes to categorize issues by epics or other criteria.\n\n![Visualize workflow with issue boards](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image2_aHR0cHM6_1750097300820.png)\n\n### 5. Tasks: Breaking down the work\n\n* Creating tasks: Within an issue, use the checklist markdown syntax to create a task list. Each item in the list represents a smaller step within the larger issue. For example, in the issue \"Design Homepage Wireframes,\" you might have tasks like \"Sketch initial concepts,\" \"Create digital wireframes,\" and \"Get feedback from stakeholders.\" To create a Task, click on the **Add** button in the \"Child Items\" section of an issue’s page. Then, enter the title of the task, and click **Create Task**.\n\n![Issue with create task button](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image7_aHR0cHM6_1750097300822.png)\n\n### 6. Milestones: Tracking progress\n* Setting milestones: Define milestones to mark significant points in your project, like completing a specific feature or reaching a key deadline. Give your milestones clear titles and due dates.\n* Associating with issues: Link issues and epics to milestones to track progress towards those goals. This helps you see how individual tasks contribute to the overall project plan.\nCreating a milestone: Under the \"Plan\" dropdown menu, click on **Milestones > New milestone**. Specify the milestone title, description, and start and due dates.\n\n![New milestone screen](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image5_aHR0cHM6_1750097300823.png)\n\n\u003Cbr>\u003C/br>\n\n![New page wtih milestone on it](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image3_aHR0cHM6_1750097300823.png)\n\n### 7. [Iterations](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/iterations/): Working in sprints\n\n* Defining iterations: If you're using an Agile workflow, define iterations (sprints) with specific start and end dates. This helps you break down your work into smaller, more manageable time boxes.  \n* Assigning issues: Assign issues to iterations to plan your work in shorter cycles and focus on delivering incremental value.\n\n### 8. [Time tracking](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/time_tracking.html): Measuring effort\n\n* Logging time: Within an issue, use the \"/spend\" quick action followed by the time spent (e.g., \"/spend 2h 30m\") to log your work. This helps you track the actual time spent on each task.  \n* Analyzing data: Generate time tracking reports to gain insights into project progress, team efficiency, and identify potential bottlenecks.\n\n![Time tracking report](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097301/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image9_aHR0cHM6_1750097300824.png)\n\n### 9. Dependencies: Managing workflow\n\n* [Linking issues](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/related_issues.html): Create dependencies between issues to ensure tasks are completed in the correct order. For example, if issue A must be completed before issue B can begin, you can create a dependency between them. This helps you visualize the workflow and avoid potential roadblocks.\n\n### 10. Templates: Streamlining issue creation\n\n* [Creating templates](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/description_templates.html): Create issue templates to standardize the information captured for common tasks, saving you time and ensuring consistency. For example, you could create a template for bug reports that includes fields for steps to reproduce expected behavior and actual behavior.\n\n### Collaboration is key\n\nGitLab fosters collaboration through the following:\n\n* [Comments](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/): Discuss issues and epics directly within GitLab. Use comments to provide updates, ask questions, and share feedback.  \n* [Mentions](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/#mentions): Use **@** to mention specific team members and notify them of updates or request their input.  \n* Discussions: Engage in threaded discussions within issues and epics to brainstorm ideas, solve problems together, and keep everyone informed.\n\n### Ready to get started?\n\nNow that you've explored the power of GitLab's project management features, it's time to put them into practice! Create a sample project, experiment with different features, and discover how GitLab can transform your workflow. You can also learn more about how GitLab can help you facilitate [Kanban](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/kanban/) and [Scrum](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/scrum_events/) in the GitLab documentation.\n\n> #### Want to take your learning to the next level? [Sign up for GitLab University courses](https://university.gitlab.com/). 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But as adoption grows, so does oversight from finance, procurement, and platform teams to prove that AI spending is bounded, predictable, and controllable.\n\nOne of the greatest barriers to broader AI adoption isn't skepticism about the technology. It's uncertainty about managing spend. Without budget caps, a busy month could produce unexpected expenses. Without per-user limits, a handful of power users could burn through the team's credits before the month is over. And without either, engineering leaders who want to expand their use of agentic AI for software development have to jump through more hoops for budget approval.\n\nSince its [general availability](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-duo-agent-platform-is-generally-available/), GitLab Duo Agent Platform has provided usage governance and visibility. With GitLab 18.11, we're introducing usage controls for [GitLab Credits](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/introducing-gitlab-credits/): spending caps and budget guardrails that give your organization even more control and transparency over how credits are consumed.\n\n## Managing GitLab Credits\n\nGitLab 18.11 adds three layers of control over GitLab Credits consumption: a subscription-level spending cap, per-user credit limits, and visibility into cap status and enforcement.\n\n### Subscription-level spending cap\n\nBilling account managers can now set a hard monthly ceiling for on-demand GitLab Credits consumption for their entire subscription.\n\nHere's how it works:\n\n* **Set a cap** in the `Customers Portal` under your subscription's GitLab Credits settings.  \n* **Enforce spend limits automatically.**  When on-demand usage reaches the cap, DAP access is paused for all users on that subscription until the next monthly period begins.  \n* **Make adjustments as you go.** Raise or disable the cap mid-month to restore access.\n\nThe cap resets each monthly period and your configured limit carries forward unless you change it. Because usage data is synchronized periodically rather than in real time, a small amount of additional usage may occur after the cap is reached before enforcement takes effect. See the [GitLab Credits documentation](https://docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_credits/) for details.\n\n### User-level spending caps\n\nNot every user consumes credits at the same rate, and that's expected. But when one or two power users account for a disproportionate share of the pool, the rest of the team can lose access before the month is over.\n\nPer-user credit caps prevent any single user from consuming more than their fair share:\n\n* **Flat per-user cap.** Set a uniform credit limit that applies equally to every user on the subscription through the GitLab GraphQL API. Unlike the subscription-level cap, the per-user cap applies to a user's total consumption across all credit sources.  \n* **Custom per-user overrides.** For organizations that need differentiated limits, you can set individual credit caps for specific users through the GraphQL API. For example, you could give your staff engineers a higher allocation while applying a standard limit to the broader team.  \n* **Individual enforcement.** When a user reaches their cap, they retain full access to GitLab. Only their Duo Agent Platform credit usage is paused until the next billing cycle. Everyone else keeps working uninterrupted until they hit their own limit or the subscription-level cap is reached, whichever comes first.\n\n### Visibility and notifications\n\nWhen a subscription-level cap is reached, GitLab sends an email notification to billing account managers so they can take action: raise the cap, wait for the next period, or redistribute credits.\n\nWithin GitLab, group owners (GitLab.com) and instance administrators (Self-Managed) can view which users have been blocked due to reaching their per-user cap and restore access by adjusting the cap through the GraphQL API. \n\n## How budget guardrails help organizations scale AI usage\n\nGuardrails are essential as organizations ramp up their AI adoption. Here's why:\n\n### Predictable AI budgets\n\nUsage controls for GitLab Duo Agent Platform turn AI into a bounded, predictable budget item using on-demand GitLab Credits. That makes it easier to deploy agents across the software development lifecycle and get sign-off from finance, justify renewals, and plan quarterly spend.\n\n### Governance and chargeback\n\nLarge organizations often need to align AI consumption with internal budgets, cost centers, or departmental policies. Per-user caps give platform teams a straightforward mechanism to allocate credits fairly and track consumption at the individual level. The API import options make it practical to manage caps at enterprise scale. Combined with per-user usage data from the GitLab Credits dashboard, organizations can track consumption patterns to inform their own internal chargeback or budget allocation processes.\n\n### Confidence to scale\n\nMany customers start GitLab Duo Agent Platform with a small pilot group. Usage controls remove risks associated with expanding that pilot across the organization. You can roll out Duo Agent Platform to hundreds or thousands of developers knowing there's a hard ceiling protecting your budget. If usage grows faster than expected, you'll hit the cap, not an unexpected invoice.\n\n## Addressing the seat-based and visibility conundrum\n\nMany AI coding tools take a seat-based approach to cost management. You buy a fixed number of seats at a flat per-user price, and that's your budget. It's simple, but rigid. You pay the same whether a developer uses the tool ten times a day or never touches it. And as vendors introduce premium models and usage-based overages on top of seat pricing, the cost predictability that seat-based licensing promised starts to erode.\n\n\nGitLab takes a different approach. Usage-based pricing with hard caps and a single governance dashboard. You get the flexibility of paying for what your teams actually use, with the budget predictability of enforced spending limits.\n\n## Real-world usage controls\n\n**One example is a mid-size SaaS customer that wants to protect their monthly budget.** A 200-person engineering organization sets a subscription-level cap equal to their expected on-demand usage. Their VP of Engineering can confidently tell finance that GitLab Duo Agent Platform spend will never exceed the approved amount, even as they onboard new teams. If they approach the cap mid-month, the billing account manager gets a notification and can decide whether to raise the limit or wait for the next period.\n\n**At GitLab, we also work with large enterprises that want to keep usage fair across teams.** A global financial services company with 2,000 developers uses per-user caps to ensure equitable access. Staff engineers working on complex refactoring projects get a higher individual allocation via API, while most developers receive a standard flat cap. No single user can exhaust the pool, and the platform team uses the per-user usage data in the GitLab Credits dashboard to track consumption patterns and inform quarterly budget planning.\n\n## Getting started\n\nUsage controls are available for both GitLab.com and Self-Managed customers running GitLab 18.11. Different controls are configured in different places depending on the scope and your role.\n\n**Subscription-level cap**\n\nBilling account managers set the subscription-level on-demand cap in the Customers Portal:\n\n1. Sign in to the `Customers Portal`.  \n2. On your subscription card, navigate to **GitLab Credits** settings.  \n3. Enable the monthly on-demand credits cap and enter your desired limit.\n\n**Flat per-user cap**\n\nThe flat per-user cap can be set through the GitLab GraphQL API by namespace owners (GitLab.com) or instance administrators (Self-Managed). Check the [GitLab Credits documentation](https://docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_credits/) for the latest on available configuration surfaces.\n\n**Custom per-user overrides**\n\nFor differentiated limits, namespace owners (GitLab.com) and instance administrators (Self-Managed) can set individual caps programmatically. This is useful for automation and infrastructure-as-code workflows.\n\n**Monitor usage and cap status**\n\n* **Customers Portal:** View detailed usage and cap status.  \n* **GitLab.com:** Group owners can view blocked users under **Settings > GitLab Credits**.  \n* **Self-Managed:** Instance administrators can view cap status and blocked users under **Admin > GitLab Credits**.\n\n## GitLab Duo Agent Platform is ready to scale\n\nUsage controls are available now in GitLab 18.11. If you've been waiting for the right guardrails before expanding GitLab Duo Agent Platform across your organization, this is your moment. 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More code means more merge requests queued, more pipelines to configure, more questions about delivery that nobody has time to answer — and most of the tooling teams rely on wasn't built for this pace.\n\nIn GitLab 18.11, two new foundational agents for Duo Agent Platform address specific gaps in the development lifecycle that AI has largely left untouched:\n* CI Expert Agent (now in beta) focuses on the gap between writing code and getting it into a running pipeline\n* Data Analyst Agent (now generally available) focuses on the gap between shipping code and being able to answer basic questions about how that delivery is actually going.\n\n\nThese are problem areas that couldn't be solved by a general-purpose assistant. A tool running outside GitLab can generate a YAML file or answer a question, but it has no awareness of how your pipelines have historically performed, where failures cluster, or what your actual MR cycle times look like. That context lives in GitLab. These agents do too.\n## Fast CI setup with CI Expert Agent\n\nAI has made it easier than ever to write code. Getting that code into a running pipeline is still something most teams do days, or weeks, later — if at all. The blank-page problem isn't in the editor anymore. The blank page is now in `.gitlab-ci.yml`.\n\nDevelopers who have never configured CI don't know what language detection looks like in YAML, what their test commands should be, or how to validate the result before pushing. Teams either copy a config from a previous project that may not fit, stitch together examples from documentation, or wait for the one person who's done it before. If that person isn't available, CI becomes the thing you'll \"get to later.\" Later becomes never.\n\nWhen CI never happens, the impact shows up everywhere else. Changes ship without a reliable safety net, regressions surface in production instead of in pipelines, and work piles up in bigger, riskier batches because no one wants to be the person who “breaks the build.” Over time, teams normalize working in the dark, often relying on undocumented institutional knowledge and ad-hoc testing, instead of having a fast, predictable feedback loop baked into every change.\n\nCI Expert Agent, now available in beta, removes that friction. It inspects your repository, identifies your language and framework, and proposes a working build and test pipeline tailored to what's actually there — then explains every decision in plain language. The target: a running pipeline in minutes, with no YAML written by hand.\n\nWhat CI Expert Agent does:\n\n* Repo-aware pipeline generation detects language, framework, and test setup \n* Generates valid, runnable build and test configurations   \n* Guided first-pipeline flow with plain-language explanation of each step in Agentic Chat  \n* Native GitLab CI semantics with no config translation required\n\nBecause it runs inside GitLab and sees real pipeline behavior over time, each improvement can build on how teams actually work, not just on static examples.\n\u003Ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/1183458036?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"CI/CD Expert Agent\">\u003C/iframe>\u003Cscript src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js\">\u003C/script>\n\u003Cbr>\u003C/br>\n\nCI Expert Agent is available on GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated; Free, Premium, Ultimate Editions with Duo Agent Platform enabled.\n\n## Query GitLab data in plain language with Data Analyst Agent\n\nAI has sped up how teams ship. Answering basic questions about how that work is going has gotten harder, not easier.\n\nHow long are MRs sitting in review? Which pipelines are slowing teams down? Are deployment targets actually being hit? These questions used to be answerable by glancing at a dashboard. Now, with more code, more teams, and more complexity, the data exists — it's in GitLab — but accessing it still means waiting on an analytics team, filing a dashboard request, or learning GLQL.\n\nData Analyst Agent targets that gap. Ask a natural-language question and get an instant visualization in Agentic Chat. No query language, no dashboard request, no waiting for the answers to be assembled by someone else.\n\nFor example, the agent can answer questions about the following topics for these roles:\n\n* Engineering managers: MR cycle time, throughput by project, where reviews get stuck  \n* Developers: Contribution patterns, flaky tests blocking their MRs, pipeline speed trends  \n* DevOps and platform engineers: Pipeline success/failure rates, runner utilization, deployment frequency  \n* Engineering leadership: Cross-portfolio deployment frequency, project health metrics, lead time comparisons\n\nNow generally available in 18.11, the agent covers MRs, issues, projects, pipelines, and jobs — full software development lifecycle coverage, expanded from the beta scope. Because Data Analyst Agent queries what's already in GitLab, the context is always current, and there's no pipeline to maintain or third-party tool to keep synchronized. Generated GitLab Query Language queries can be copied and used anywhere GitLab Flavored Markdown is supported, with direct export to work items and dashboards on the roadmap.\n\n\u003Ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/1183094817?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Data Analyst agent demo\">\u003C/iframe>\u003Cscript src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js\">\u003C/script>\n\u003Cbr>\u003C/br>\n\nData Analyst Agent is available on GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated; Free, Premium and Ultimate Edition with Duo Agent Platform enabled.\n\n## One platform, connected context\n\nBoth agents run inside GitLab, with access to the code, pipelines, issues, and merge requests already there. 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