[jeduardo]

We used to run Gitlab Premium for around 300 users running hundreds of jobs over some monorepos. Gitlab suggested a small architecture using Omnibus, and while it helped a bit, it didn't perform as well under load as we expected it to.

Eventually, there was no virtual scaling that could help. This, for me, is the biggest problem with Gitlab hosting: as soon as you hit a scale where a single machine with Omnibus doesn't cut it, the jump in complexity, cost, and engineering hours is significant.

[firesteelrain]

Omnibus is like entry level. We paid for GitLab Professional Services and they recommended going to the larger architecture. Since then, we haven’t had issues.

They have their free fast stats tool and you can run your logs through their tool to get statistics and identify hotspots