GitLab 13.11 Release Kickoff, 9 Mar 2021

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From YouTube: GitLab 13.11 Kickoff - Monitor:Monitor

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https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/monitor/monitor/-/issues/57

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Hi, my name is sarah waldner, I'm the senior product manager for the monitor stage here at git, lab welcome to the 13.11 milestone, kickoff, video and 13.11.

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The monitor team is focused on two main goals, and this is adding array support for the new custom mapping, functionality that we've added to the alert integrations suite and adding functions to handle the removal and deletion of users which becomes really important when those users are part of on-call schedules.

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The admin may or may not know about that, and so we need to add warnings and a nice workflow to make sure that teams are missing critical alerts.

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So, first up array support for alert, custom, mappings, that's a mouthful when someone is setting up a custom mapping for an external alert in gitlab, so that they can customize the look of alert for their team or perhaps the alert coming from the other tool is immutable and they want to make it compatible with get labs alert format.

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We want to add support to this functionality for the different ways that someone could set up or different ways that alerts could be formatted in terms of arrays. So we're fixing two things with this improvement.

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One providing access to different attributes that may be within a nest may be nested inside a certain array. So this is for a one level nest with inside an array, and once we add this, it'll uh it'll be parsed and those nested attributes will be accessible for mapping and then two we're handling the same case for multiple arrays.

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So here we've got the attributes array and inside two sets of attributes with the same names and so we'll be parsing these into a single layer and then indicating which attribute came first and second, so that's very clear to the user. When they're setting up their alert.

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Next up, we've got a handful of improvements for how we're handling notifications for alerts for users, so first we'll be updating the premium and ultimate pricing tiers and removing the old email notification system from those tiers that will still remain within the core tier, but we're adding on-call schedule management, which provides a different notification system for alerts.

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And then our last two highlights for the 13.11 milestone is adding support and workflows for when an admin goes to remove a user from a project or a group, and this user is part of an on-call schedule.

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We want to provide that adam admin with a warning and information regarding that user's roles and responsibilities in those schedules, so that they know to reach out to the owner of that project to get those schedules updated and then same use case, for if an admin is deleting a user who is part of an on-call schedule providing that admin with a warning and details on that user's responsibility, so that they can get them replaced, while still deleting them from the instance, which is often a critical function. Thank.

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