Commit c9057f44 authored by Abhijeet Chatterjee's avatar Abhijeet Chatterjee Committed by Marcel Amirault

Clean-Up-Vale-Admin-Rule-(user/admin_area/index)

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# GitLab Admin Area **(FREE SELF)**
The Admin Area provides a web UI to manage and configure some features of GitLab
self-managed instances. If you are an Admin user, you can access the Admin Area
self-managed instances. If you are an administrator, you can access the Admin Area
by visiting `/admin` on your self-managed instance. You can also access it through
the UI:
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- GitLab versions 13.12 and earlier: on the top bar, select the Admin Area icon (**{admin}**).
NOTE:
Only admin users can access the Admin Area.
Only administrators can access the Admin Area.
## Admin Area sections
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| Section | Description |
|:-----------------------------------------------|:------------|
| **{overview}** [Overview](#overview-section) | View your GitLab [Dashboard](#admin-dashboard), and administer [projects](#administering-projects), [users](#administering-users), [groups](#administering-groups), [jobs](#administering-jobs), [runners](#administering-runners), and [Gitaly servers](#administering-gitaly-servers). |
| **{overview}** [Overview](#overview-section) | View your GitLab [Dashboard](#admin-area-dashboard), and administer [projects](#administering-projects), [users](#administering-users), [groups](#administering-groups), [jobs](#administering-jobs), [runners](#administering-runners), and [Gitaly servers](#administering-gitaly-servers). |
| **{monitor}** Monitoring | View GitLab [system information](#system-information), and information on [background jobs](#background-jobs), [logs](#logs), [health checks](monitoring/health_check.md), [requests profiles](#requests-profiles), and [audit events](#audit-events). |
| **{messages}** Messages | Send and manage [broadcast messages](broadcast_messages.md) for your users. |
| **{hook}** System Hooks | Configure [system hooks](../../system_hooks/system_hooks.md) for many events. |
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| **{appearance}** Appearance | Customize [GitLab appearance](appearance.md). |
| **{settings}** Settings | Modify the [settings](settings/index.md) for your GitLab instance. |
## Admin Dashboard
## Admin Area dashboard
The Dashboard provides statistics and system information about the GitLab instance.
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#### User impersonation
An administrator can "impersonate" any other user, including other administrator users.
An administrator can "impersonate" any other user, including other administrators.
This allows the administrator to "see what the user sees," and take actions on behalf of the user.
You can impersonate a user in the following ways:
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### Logs
Since GitLab 13.0, **Log** view has been removed from the admin dashboard since the logging does not work in multi-node setups and could cause confusion for administrators by displaying partial information.
Since GitLab 13.0, **Log** view has been removed from the Admin Area dashboard since the logging does not work in multi-node setups and could cause confusion for administrators by displaying partial information.
For multi-node systems we recommend ingesting the logs into services like Elasticsearch and Splunk.
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