User account

When logged into their GitLab account, users can customize their experience according to the best approach to their cases.

Username

Your username is a unique namespace related to your user ID.

You can change your username from your profile settings. To avoid breaking paths when you change your username, we suggest you follow this procedure from the GitLab Team Handbook.

User profile

Your profile is available from the up-right corner menu bar (user's avatar) > Profile, or from https://example.gitlab.com/username.

On your profile page, you will see the following information:

• Personal information
• Activity stream: see your activity streamline and the history of your contributions
• Groups: groups you're a member of
• Contributed projects: projects you contributed to
• Personal projects: your personal projects (respecting the project's visibility level)
• Snippets: your personal code snippets

Profile settings

You can edit your account settings by navigating from the up-right corner menu bar (user's avatar) > Settings, or visiting https://example.gitlab.com/profile.

From there, you can:

• Update your personal information
• Manage private tokens, email tokens, 2FA
• Change your username and delete your account
• Manage applications that can use GitLab as an OAuth provider
• Manage personal access tokens to access your account via API and authorized applications
• Add and delete emails linked to your account
• Manage SSH keys to access your account via SSH
• Manage your preferences to customize your own GitLab experience
• Acess your audit log, a security log of important events involving your account