importer-labs/gitlab/valet-forecast-lab.md

Forecast the usage of a GitLab namespace

In this lab we will us the forecast command to forecast potential GitHub Actions usage by computing metrics from historical pipeline data in the GitLab instance. The metrics will be stored on disk in a markdown file and include job metrics for execution time, queue time, and concurrency. We will look at each of these metrics in this lab.

• Prerequisites
• Prepare for forecast
• Perform a forecast
• Review forecast output

Prerequisites

1. Followed steps to set up your codespace environment.
2. Completed the configure lab

Prepare for forecast

Before we can run the forecast we need to answer a few questions so we can construct the correct command

1. What namespace do we want to run the forecast for? Valet.
2. What timeframe do we want to forecast?

Perform a forecast

TBD

Review forecast output

TBD