GitLab Notifications

GitLab has notifications system in place to notify a user of events important for the workflow.

Notification settings

Under user profile page you can find the notification settings.

Notification settings are divided into three groups:

Global Settings
Group Settings
Project Settings

Each of these settings have levels of notification:

Disabled - turns off notifications
Participating - receive notifications from related resources
Watch - receive notifications from projects or groups user is a member of
Global - notifications as set at the global settings

Global Settings

Global Settings are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Any setting set here will be overriden by a setting at the group or a project level.

Group or Project settings can use global notification setting which will then use anything that is set at Global Settings.

Group Settings

Group Settings are taking presedence over Global Settings but are on a level below Project Settings. This means that you can set a different level of notifications per group while still being able to have a finer level setting per project. Organization like this is suitable for users that belong to different groups but don't have the same need for being notified for every group they are member of.

Project Settings

Project Settings are at the top level and any setting placed at this level will take presedence of any other setting. This is suitable for users that have different needs for notifications per project basis.

Notification events

Below is the table of events users can be notified of:

Event	Sent to	Settings level
New SSH key added	User	Security email, always sent.
New email added	User	Security email, always sent.
New user created	User	Sent on user creation, except for omniauth (LDAP)
New issue created	Issue assignee [1], project members [2]	[1] not disabled, [2] higher than participating
User added to project	User	Sent when user is added to project
Project access level changed	User	Sent when user project access level is changed
User added to group	User	Sent when user is added to group
Project moved	Project members [1]	[1] not disabled
Group access level changed	User	Sent when user group access level is changed
Close issue	Issue author [1], issue assignee [2], project members [3]	[1] [2] not disabled, [3] higher than participating
Reassign issue	New issue assignee [1], old issue assignee [2]	[1] [2] not disabled
Reopen issue	Project members [1]	[1] higher than participating
New merge request	MR assignee [1]	[1] not disabled
Reassign merge request	New MR assignee [1], old MR assignee [2]	[1] [2] not disabled
Close merge request	MR author [1], MR assignee [2], project members [3]	[1] [2] not disabled, [3] higher than participating
Reopen merge request	Project members [1]	[1] higher than participating
Merge merge request	MR author [1], MR assignee [2], project members [3]	[1] [2] not disabled, [3] higher than participating
New comment	Mentioned users [1], users participating [2], project members [3]	[1] [2] not disabled, [3] higher than participating

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