Orbit Remote
- Tier: Premium, Ultimate
- Offering: GitLab.com
- Status: Experiment
The availability of this feature is controlled by a feature flag. For more information, see the history. This feature is available for testing, but not ready for production use.
Orbit Remote runs on GitLab-hosted infrastructure. Enable it on a top-level group and it automatically indexes your entire SDLC and code - groups, projects, users, merge requests, pipelines, vulnerabilities, and source code - into a ClickHouse property graph.
- Indexes: Full SDLC + code graph
- Storage: ClickHouse (managed, no setup required)
In this section
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Get started | Enable Orbit and run your first query |
| How it works | Indexing pipeline, graph model, query execution |
| What Orbit indexes | SDLC coverage, language support, authorization |
| Schema reference | All 24 node types across 6 domains |
| Cookbook | Copy-paste queries for common use cases |
| Query language | Full query DSL reference |
Access methods
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| GitLab Duo Agent Platform | Natural language questions via the GitLab UI |
| MCP | Connect Claude Code, Codex, and other agents |
The GitLab CLI (glab) |
glab orbit remote for scripting and discovery (available in glab 1.94 or later) |
| REST API | Query from scripts, CI pipelines, or custom tooling |
Billing
MCP and REST API queries consume GitLab Credits. GitLab Duo Agent Platform queries are zero-rated.