Here's how the GitLab integration works: you connect repositories to Steady with a webhook, and Steady will match up commits and merge requests to your team members. The updates will appear on the Activity page and alongside their check-ins.
To set it up, visit the Settings - Webhooks. section for the GitLab project/repository you want to connect.
In Steady, go to the Account Management - Integrations page and copy the payload URL listed there under the GitLab panel.
Then, paste that value into a new webhook in the relevant project/repository in GitLab. Make sure Push events and Merge request events are ticked off:
To test it out, make a push with a new commit to the GitLab repo and look for a new entry on the Activity page.
You can add as many projects/repos as you want to your Steady team using the same webhook URL.
Auto-complete
Once a few activities have been logged, you can use the auto-complete functionality in check-ins and comments to auto-link to issues in your GitLab project.
Simply type # and a string of text that is part of your GitLab item, and you'll be able to select and auto-insert a fully formatted link to the item.
Troubleshooting
Look for commits on the Activity page first. The check-ins on the dashboard will sum up commits from the previous period. (The check-ins essentially say "here's what I did yesterday, and here are all the commits to go along with that.)
Check to make sure the email address that is being used in GitLab matches the email address that is being used in Steady. If you or a team member is using a different email address in GitLab, set the secondary email address to match the one used in GitLab.
Make sure that the commit authors (not the person who "pushed" to the repo) match up either by email or by first and last name with people on your team in Steady.
The commits have timestamps that are different from when they are pushed to the repo, and we use the commit timestamps to match up with check-ins. So if you pushed commits that are a few days old to a repo, they will appear with older check-ins, or discarded if they happened before you created your Steady account or added the author as a Steady team member.