Security and compliance Admin area settings

  • Tier: Ultimate
  • Offering: GitLab Self-Managed

The settings for package metadata synchronization are located in the Admin area.

Choose package registry metadata to sync

To choose the packages you want to synchronize with the GitLab Package Metadata Database for License Compliance and Continuous Vulnerability Scanning:

  1. On the left sidebar, at the bottom, select Admin.
  2. Select Settings > Security and compliance.
  3. In Package registry metadata to sync, select or clear checkboxes for the package registries that you want to sync.
  4. Select Save changes.

For this data synchronization to work, you must allow outbound network traffic from your GitLab instance to the domain storage.googleapis.com. See also the offline setup instructions described in Enabling the Package Metadata Database.