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https://github.com/max-wittig/gitlab-languages

Utility to generate a Prometheus exporter text file for your GitLab repository using the GitLab Language API
https://github.com/max-wittig/gitlab-languages

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Utility to generate a Prometheus exporter text file for your GitLab repository using the GitLab Language API

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# gitlab-languages

[![PyPI - License](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/gitlab-languages.svg)](https://github.com/max-wittig/gitlab-languages/blob/master/LICENSE)

Utility to generate a Prometheus data source text file for your GitLab instance
using the [GitLab Language API](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#languages)

## installation from PyPI

1. Install from PyPI as CLI

```bash
pip install -U gitlab-languages
```

1. Run the program

```bash
gitlab-languages --cache cache.json --args owned=True # more info about usage: see below
```

## installation from source

1. Install python dependencies

```bash
poetry install
```

1. Set the required environment variables

```bash
export GITLAB_TOKEN=
export GITLAB_URL=https://gitlab.com # optional, defaults to https://gitlab.com
# optional:
export WORKER_COUNT=24
```

1. Run the tool

```bash
gitlab-languages
```

## usage

```plain
usage: gitlab_languages [-h] [--project_limit PROJECT_LIMIT]
[--args ARGS [ARGS ...]]
[--groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]]
[--ignore_groups IGNORE_GROUPS [IGNORE_GROUPS ...]]
[--cache CACHE] [-o OUTPUT]

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--project_limit PROJECT_LIMIT
Set project limit to scan
--args ARGS [ARGS ...]
Provide custom args to the GitLab API
--groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]
Scan only certain groups
--ignore_groups IGNORE_GROUPS [IGNORE_GROUPS ...]
Ignore certain groups and their projects
--cache CACHE Cache file to use
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Location of the metrics file output
```

### additional arguments

You can specify additional arguments, that will be directly supplied to the
[python-gitlab library](https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab) or to the GitLab API endpoint.
Example:

```bash
gitlab-languages --args owned=True
```

More info about the available additional args can be found here:

* http://python-gitlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
* https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/

### example output

The output will look something like this:

```plain
metrics.txt

# HELP languages_percent Languages scanned in percent
# TYPE languages_percent gauge
languages_percent{language="Java"} 11.73
languages_percent{language="CSS"} 1.97
languages_percent{language="TypeScript"} 3.5
languages_percent{language="HTML"} 6.14
languages_percent{language="JavaScript"} 17.16
languages_percent{language="Python"} 10.4
languages_percent{language="Modelica"} 3.7
languages_percent{language="TeX"} 1.64
languages_percent{language="Shell"} 6.35
languages_percent{language="Batchfile"} 0.76
languages_percent{language="HCL"} 7.15
languages_percent{language="BitBake"} 0.56
languages_percent{language="C"} 5.25
languages_percent{language="C++"} 0.72
languages_percent{language="Matlab"} 2.77
languages_percent{language="TXL"} 0.05
languages_percent{language="Objective-C"} 1.48
languages_percent{language="XSLT"} 1.68
languages_percent{language="Perl"} 1.71
languages_percent{language="Ruby"} 0.03
languages_percent{language="C#"} 10.3
languages_percent{language="PowerShell"} 0.11
languages_percent{language="Pascal"} 0.01
languages_percent{language="ASP"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="PLpgSQL"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="Makefile"} 2.06
languages_percent{language="SQLPL"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="Puppet"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="Groovy"} 2.56
languages_percent{language="M4"} 0.01
languages_percent{language="Roff"} 0.15
languages_percent{language="CMake"} 0.01
languages_percent{language="NSIS"} 0.01
languages_percent{language="PHP"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="Go"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="Smalltalk"} 0.02
languages_percent{language="Visual Basic"} 0.0
languages_percent{language="Smarty"} 0.0
# HELP languages_scanned_total Total languages scanned
# TYPE languages_scanned_total gauge
languages_scanned_total 38.0
# HELP projects_scanned_total Total projects scanned
# TYPE projects_scanned_total gauge
projects_scanned_total 61.0
# HELP projects_skipped_total Total projects skipped
# TYPE projects_skipped_total gauge
projects_skipped_total 0.0
# HELP projects_no_language_total Projects without language detected
# TYPE projects_no_language_total gauge
projects_no_language_total 39.0
# HELP groups_scanned_total Total groups scanned
# TYPE groups_scanned_total gauge
groups_scanned_total 0.0
```

Run the script via GitLab CI with schedules and export the metrics.txt file as GitLab pages.
Then you can add it to your Prometheus instance as scrape source.