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Continuous integration Admin settings

Maximum artifacts size

The maximum size of the job artifacts can be set in the Admin area of your GitLab instance. The value is in MB and the default is 100MB. Note that this setting is set for each job.

  1. Go to the Admin area ➔ Settings (/admin/application_settings).

    Admin area settings button

  2. Change the value of maximum artifacts size (in MB):

    Admin area maximum artifacts size

  3. Hit Save for the changes to take effect.

Default artifacts expiration

The default expiration time of the job artifacts can be set in the Admin area of your GitLab instance. The syntax of duration is described in artifacts:expire_in. The default is 30 days. Note that this setting is set for each job. Set it to 0 if you don't want default expiration.

  1. Go to Admin area > Settings (/admin/application_settings).

    Admin area settings button

  2. Change the value of default expiration time (syntax):

    Admin area default artifacts expiration

  3. Hit Save for the changes to take effect.

Shared Runners pipeline minutes quota

Introduced in GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.16.

If you have enabled shared Runners for your GitLab instance, you can limit their usage by setting a maximum number of pipeline minutes that a group can use on shared Runners per month. Set 0 to grant unlimited pipeline minutes. While build limits are stored as minutes, the counting is done in seconds. Usage resets on the first day of each month.

  1. Go to the Admin area ➔ Settings (/admin/application_settings).

    Admin area settings button

  2. Navigate to the Continuous Integration block and enable the Shared Runners setting. Then set the pipeline minutes quota limit.

    Shared Runners pipeline minutes quota

  3. Hit Save for the changes to take effect.

While the setting in the Admin area has a global effect, as an admin you can also change each group's pipeline minutes quota to override the global value.

  1. Navigate to the Groups admin area and hit the Edit button for the group you wish to change the pipeline minutes quota.

    Groups in the admin area

  2. Set the pipeline minutes quota to the desired value and hit Save changes for the changes to take effect.

    Edit group in the admin area

Once saved, you can see the build quota in the group admin view.

Group admin info

The quota can also be viewed in the project admin view if shared Runners are enabled.

Project admin info

When the pipeline minutes quota for a group is set to a value different than 0, the Pipelines quota page is available to the group page settings list.

Group settings

You can see there an overview of the pipeline minutes quota of all projects of the group.

Group pipelines quota