Commit 075bdd6c authored by Adam Niedzielski's avatar Adam Niedzielski

Document how polling interval is used

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The multiplier can also have a decimal value.
The default value (1) is a reasonable choice for the majority of GitLab
installations. Set to 0 to completely disable polling.
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- [Migrate GitLab CI to CE/EE](migrate_ci_to_ce/README.md) Follow this guide to migrate your existing GitLab CI data to GitLab CE/EE.
- [Monitoring uptime](user/admin_area/monitoring/health_check.md) Check the server status using the health check endpoint.
- [Operations](administration/operations.md) Keeping GitLab up and running.
- [Polling](administration/polling.md) Configure how often the GitLab UI polls for updates
- [Raketasks](raketasks/README.md) Backups, maintenance, automatic webhook setup and the importing of projects.
- [Reply by email](administration/reply_by_email.md) Allow users to comment on issues and merge requests by replying to notification emails.
- [Repository checks](administration/repository_checks.md) Periodic Git repository checks.
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# Polling configuration
The GitLab UI polls for updates for different resources (issue notes, issue
titles, pipeline statuses, etc.) on a schedule appropriate to the resource.
In "Application settings -> Real-time features" you can configure "Polling
interval multiplier". This multiplier is applied to all resources at once,
and decimal values are supported. For the sake of the examples below, we will
say that issue notes poll every 2 seconds, and issue titles poll every 5
seconds; these are _not_ the actual values.
- 1 is the default, and recommended for most installations. (Issue notes poll
every 2 seconds, and issue titles poll every 5 seconds.)
- 0 will disable UI polling completely. (On the next poll, clients will stop
polling for updates.)
- A value greater than 1 will slow polling down. If you see issues with
database load from lots of clients polling for updates, increasing the
multiplier from 1 can be a good compromise, rather than disabling polling
completely. (For example: If this is set to 2, then issue notes poll every 4
seconds, and issue titles poll every 10 seconds.)
- A value between 0 and 1 will make the UI poll more frequently (so updates
will show in other sessions faster), but is **not recommended**. 1 should be
fast enough. (For example, if this is set to 0.5, then issue notes poll every
1 second, and issue titles poll every 2.5 seconds.)
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Use the following rules when creating realtime solutions.
1. The server will tell you how much to poll by sending `Poll-Interval` in the header.
Use that as your polling interval. This way it is easy for system administrators to change the
polling rate.
Use that as your polling interval. This way it is [easy for system administrators to change the
polling rate](../../administration/polling.md).
A `Poll-Interval: -1` means you should disable polling, and this must be implemented.
1. A response with HTTP status `4XX` or `5XX` should disable polling as well.
1. Use a common library for polling.
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route matching easier.
For more information see:
- [`Poll-Interval` header](fe_guide/performance.md#realtime-components)
- [RFC 7232](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232)
- [ETag proposal](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26926)
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