GitLab: New Tool to Visualize High-Level Project Trends

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This post introduces and details the 'Insights' feature, a flexible tool for visualizing trends in workflows, bugs, merge request throughput, and issue activity based on GitLab's labeling system. It explains the 'why' behind its development, focusing on the Engineering Productivity team's need to track bug creation trends and MR throughput. The post highlights the critical role of labels in powering Insights and provides examples of how it's used at GitLab, such as the MR throughputs dashboard and the Support team's Bugs SLO chart. It also delves into the technical configuration of Insights, showing a YAML example for the MR throughputs dashboard and explaining how it can be filtered at group or project levels. The post emphasizes the version-controlled nature of the Insights configuration.