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stage: Data Stores
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group: Tenant Scale
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Groups **(FREE)**
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In GitLab, you use groups to manage one or more related projects at the same time.
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You can use groups to manage permissions for your projects. If someone has access to
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the group, they get access to all the projects in the group.
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You can also view all of the issues and merge requests for the projects in the group,
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and view analytics that show the group's activity.
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You can use groups to communicate with all of the members of the group at once.
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For larger organizations, you can also create [subgroups](subgroups/index.md).
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For more information about creating and managing your groups, see [Manage groups](manage.md).
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NOTE:
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Self-managed customers should create a top-level group so you can see an overview of
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your organization. For more information about efforts to create an
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organization view of all groups, [see epic 9266](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/9266).
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A top-level group can also have one complete
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[Security Dashboard and Center](../application_security/security_dashboard/index.md),
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[Vulnerability](../application_security/vulnerability_report/index.md#vulnerability-report) and
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[Compliance Report](../compliance/compliance_report/index.md), and
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[Value stream analytics](../group/value_stream_analytics/index.md).
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## Group visibility
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Like projects, a group can be configured to limit the visibility of it to:
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- Anonymous users.
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- All authenticated users.
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- Only explicit group members.
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The restriction for [visibility levels](../admin_area/settings/visibility_and_access_controls.md#restrict-visibility-levels)
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on the application setting level also applies to groups. If set to internal, the explore page is
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empty for anonymous users. The group page has a visibility level icon.
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Administrator users cannot create a subgroup or project with a higher visibility level than that of
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the immediate parent group.
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## Related topics
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- [Group wikis](../project/wiki/index.md)
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- [Maximum artifacts size](../admin_area/settings/continuous_integration.md#maximum-artifacts-size).
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- [Repositories analytics](repositories_analytics/index.md): View overall activity of all projects with code coverage.
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- [Contribution analytics](contribution_analytics/index.md): View the contributions (pushes, merge requests,
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and issues) of group members.
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- [Issue analytics](issues_analytics/index.md): View a bar chart of your group's number of issues per month.
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- Use GitLab as a [dependency proxy](../packages/dependency_proxy/index.md) for upstream Docker images.
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- [Epics](epics/index.md): Track groups of issues that share a theme.
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- [Security Dashboard](../application_security/security_dashboard/index.md): View the vulnerabilities of all
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the projects in a group and its subgroups.
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- [Insights](insights/index.md): Configure insights like triage hygiene, issues created/closed per a given period, and
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average time for merge requests to be merged.
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- [Webhooks](../project/integrations/webhooks.md).
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- [Kubernetes cluster integration](clusters/index.md).
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- [Audit Events](../../administration/audit_events.md#group-events).
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- [CI/CD minutes quota](../../ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.md): Keep track of the CI/CD minute quota for the group.
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- [Integrations](../admin_area/settings/project_integration_management.md).
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- [Transfer a project into a group](../project/settings/index.md#transfer-a-project-to-another-namespace).
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- [Share a project with a group](../project/members/share_project_with_groups.md): Give all group members access to the project at once.
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- [Lock the sharing with group feature](access_and_permissions.md#prevent-a-project-from-being-shared-with-groups).
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- [Enforce two-factor authentication (2FA)](../../security/two_factor_authentication.md#enforce-2fa-for-all-users-in-a-group): Enforce 2FA
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for all group members.
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- Namespaces [API](../../api/namespaces.md) and [Rake tasks](../../raketasks/index.md).
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- [Control access and visibility](../admin_area/settings/visibility_and_access_controls.md).
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