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Using variables (DEPRECATED) (FREE)

Deprecated in GitLab 14.7.

WARNING: This feature is in its end-of-life process. It is deprecated in GitLab 14.7, and is planned for removal in GitLab 16.0.

Query variables

Introduced in GitLab 12.7.

Variables can be specified using double curly braces, such as "{{ci_environment_slug}}".

Support for the "%{ci_environment_slug}" format was removed in GitLab 13.0. Queries that continue to use the old format display no data.

Predefined variables

GitLab supports a limited set of CI/CD variables in the Prometheus query. This is particularly useful for identifying a specific environment, for example with ci_environment_slug. Variables for Prometheus queries must be lowercase. The supported variables are:

environment_filter
ci_environment_slug
kube_namespace
ci_project_name
ci_project_namespace
ci_project_path
ci_environment_name
__range

`environment_filter`

environment_filter is automatically expanded to container_name!="POD",environment="ENVIRONMENT_NAME" where ENVIRONMENT_NAME is the name of the current environment.

For example, a Prometheus query like container_memory_usage_bytes{ {{environment_filter}} } becomes container_memory_usage_bytes{ container_name!="POD",environment="production" }.

`__range`

The __range variable is useful in Prometheus range vector selectors. Its value is the total number of seconds in the dashboard's time range. For example, if the dashboard time range is set to 8 hours, the value of __range is 28800s.

User-defined variables

Variables can be defined in a custom dashboard YAML file.

Variable names are case-sensitive.

Query variables from URL

Introduced in GitLab 13.0.

GitLab supports setting custom variables through URL parameters. Surround the variable name with double curly braces ({{example}}) to interpolate the variable in a query:

avg(sum(container_memory_usage_bytes{container_name!="{{pod}}"}) by (job)) without (job)  /1024/1024/1024'

The URL for this query would be:

https://gitlab.com/<user>/<project>/-/environments/<environment_id>/metrics?dashboard=.gitlab%2Fdashboards%2Fcustom.yml&pod=POD

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