GitLab: New Tool to Visualize High-Level Project Trends

This post details the creation and usage of GitLab's 'Insights' feature, which visualizes project trends using labels. It explains the initial motivation for building the tool (analyzing bug creation times), its evolution to track MR throughput, and the importance of label hygiene. The post provides an example of the MR throughputs dashboard configuration in YAML and describes how the Support team uses a customized 'Bugs SLO' dashboard. It highlights the flexibility of configuring Insights at group or project levels and the benefits of version-controlling the YAML configuration.