Issues and Project Management

How GitLab handles issues and project management.

GitLab Issues provide repository- and group-scoped tracking with labels, weights, milestones, and iterations, and issues integrate tightly with merge requests so that code changes can automatically close the issues they resolve. Built-in issue boards give kanban-style views for a project or group without needing a separate tool.

For larger-scale planning, GitLab includes Epics (available on paid tiers) that let teams group related issues across projects into a hierarchy, along with roadmaps that visualize epics over time. Because planning features live in the same application as the code and pipelines, status updates, linked issues, and CI results are all visible in one place rather than requiring a separate project-management integration.