Using system hooks
When you create or delete a user or project, you might want to be notified, or you might have a backend system from which you want to receive notifications for this type of events. GitLab has support for this in the form of system hooks. In this recipe, we take a look at how you can set up system hooks for your GitLab instance.
The following events can trigger a system webhook call:
- Project created
- Project destroyed
- New team member
- The team member is removed
- A user is created
- The user is removed
How to do it…
In the following steps, we will set up the system hooks:
- Log in to GitLab as an administrator.
- Go to the Admin area section.
- Click on Hooks.
- As we want to have a place to test the webhook without having to create a lot of software for ...
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