Epics (PREMIUM)

Single-level epics were moved from GitLab Ultimate to GitLab Premium in 12.8.

When issues share a theme across projects and milestones, you can manage them by using epics.

You can also create child epics, and assign start and end dates, which creates a visual roadmap for you to view progress.

Use epics:

• When your team is working on a large feature that involves multiple discussions in different issues in different projects in a group.
• To track when the work for the group of issues is targeted to begin and end.
• To discuss and collaborate on feature ideas and scope at a high level.

Relationships between epics and issues

The possible relationships between epics and issues are:

• An epic is the parent of one or more issues.
• An epic is the parent of one or more child epics. For details see Multi-level child epics.

graph TD
    Parent_epic --> Issue1
    Parent_epic --> Child_epic
    Child_epic --> Issue2

Also, read more about possible planning hierarchies.

Roadmap in epics (ULTIMATE)

If your epic contains one or more child epics that have a start or due date, a visual roadmap of the child epics is listed under the parent epic.

Related topics

• Manage epics and multi-level child epics.
• Link related epics based on a type of relationship.
• Create workflows with epic boards.
• Turn on notifications for about epic events.
• Award an emoji to an epic or its comments.
• Collaborate on an epic by posting comments in a thread.
• Use health status to track your progress.