GitLab Quick Start Guide

Epics

If you have an Ultimate/Gold enterprise subscription with GitLab (aimed at larger businesses/enterprises), you'll also have access to Epics. These are a premium feature that allow you to track issues that share a common theme across different group projects and milestones. You'll find the epics section on the left menu when you're looking at a group. You can create a new epic by clicking New epic and providing a title, or you can browse your existing list of epics. When you view an epic, you'll notice that you can edit the title and description, as well as add a start and end date (useful for large organizational projects that have limited timeframes), as well as the ability to add group-specific labels for categorization and tagging: ...