Loading content/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/labkit.md +22 −4 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -7,11 +7,29 @@ description: "LabKit is GitLab's internal tooling library which aims to bring co LabKit is a set of libraries that are intended to provide core-development functionalities such as logging, metrics, tracing, and more. ## Initial Goals ## Vision - Reduce fragmented tooling setups. - Increase internal developer velocity. - Reduce operational toil through the enforcement of standards across all of our systems. LabKit provides a consistent, intuitive interface for engineers to interact with application infrastructure, accelerating development and reducing time-to-production. - **Consistency** - Standardized patterns for common infrastructure interactions - Enforced conventions across the GitLab ecosystem - **Ease of Use** - Idiomatic APIs following language-specific best practices - Comprehensive documentation enabling rapid onboarding - Reduced Cognitive Load - engineers focus on business logic, not infrastructure boilerplate - **Accelerated Delivery** - Production-ready defaults out of the box - Reduced setup time for new services and components - Focus on business logic, not infrastructure plumbing - **Observability by Default** - Built-in instrumentation for metrics, traces, and structured logging - Consistent signal correlation across services - Improved incident response times and lower mean-time-to-recovery ## LabKit Libraries Loading Loading
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