GitLab for Confluence: Cloud and Data Center Comparison

Connect via GitLab Personal Access Token

✅

✅

Global (admin-level) connection

✅

✅

Per-user (personal) connection

✅

❌

Multiple integrations support

✅

❌

Project / Repository
View a project's name, description, branch/star/fork counts

✅

✅

Issue

✅

✅

Merge Request

✅

✅

Commit

✅

✅

Release

✅

✅

Epic

✅

✅

Milestone

✅

✅

Snippet

✅

✅

File content

✅

✅

Pipeline (single)

❌

✅

Job (single)

❌

✅

Gantt chart
Data Center: project-scoped only. Cloud: group or project.

✅

✅

GitLab Query (GLQL)
Run a query and display results as a table

❌

✅

↳ Issues list

✅ dedicated macro

✅ via GLQL

↳ Merge requests list

✅ dedicated macro

✅ via GLQL

↳ Milestones list

✅ dedicated macro

✅ via GLQL

↳ Projects list

✅ dedicated macro

✅ via GLQL

↳ Groups list

✅ dedicated macro

✅ via GLQL

Builds / Pipelines list
A list of all builds for a project

✅

❌

Request timeout (duration (in seconds) before a macro call times out)

✅

❌

Allowed spaces (restrict macros to specific Confluence spaces)

✅

❌

Forbidden spaces (prevent macros from being used in specific Confluence spaces)

✅

❌

Automatically convert GitLab links into macros

✅

❌ Not configurable on Cloud, auto-conversion is always on

Macro Default Settings (administrator-defined default values applied to GitLab macros)

✅

❌

Works with http://gitlab.com (SaaS GitLab)

✅ Yes

✅ Yes

Works with self-hosted, internet-reachable GitLab

✅ Yes

✅ Yes

Works with self-hosted GitLab that is not reachable from the internet

✅ Yes

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