GitLab Secret Scanning
Learn how to configure secret scanning for GitLab.
Prerequisites
- Create a GitLab Connection with Secret Scanning permissions
Create a GitLab Data Source in Hanzo KMS
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Navigate to your Secret Scanning Project's Dashboard and click the Add Data Source button.

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Select the GitLab option.

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Configure which workspace and repositories you would like to scan. Then click Next.

- GitLab Connection - the connection that has access to the repositories you want to scan.
- Scope - the GitLab scope to scan secrets in.
- Project - scan an individual GitLab project.
- Group - scan one or more projects belonging to a GitLab group.
- Scan Repositories - when using Group Scope, select which repositories you would like to scan.
- All Repositories - Hanzo KMS will scan all repositories associated with your connection.
- Select Repositories - Hanzo KMS will scan the selected repositories.
- Auto-Scan Enabled - whether Hanzo KMS should automatically perform a scan when a push is made to configured repositories.
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Give your data source a name and description (optional). Then click Next.

- Name - the name of the data source. Must be slug-friendly.
- Description (optional) - a description of this data source.
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Review your data source, then click Create Data Source.

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Your GitLab Data Source is now available and will begin a full scan if Auto-Scan is enabled.

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You can view repositories and scan results by clicking on your data source.

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In addition, you can review any findings from the Findings Page.

To create a GitLab Data Source, make an API request to the Create GitLab Data Source API endpoint.
Sample request
curl --request POST \
--url https://us.kms.hanzo.ai/api/v2/secret-scanning/data-sources/gitlab \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"name": "my-gitlab-source",
"projectId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"description": "my gitlab data source",
"connectionId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"isAutoScanEnabled": true,
"config": {
"scope": "project",
"projectId": 123456789,
"projectName": "my-group/my-project"
}
}'Sample response
{
"dataSource": {
"id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"externalId": "1234567890",
"name": "my-gitlab-source",
"description": "my gitlab data source",
"isAutoScanEnabled": true,
"projectId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updatedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"type": "gitlab",
"connectionId": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
"connection": {
"app": "gitlab",
"name": "my-gitlab-app",
"id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a"
},
"config": {
"scope": "project",
"projectId": 123456789,
"projectName": "my-group/my-project"
}
}
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