Getting started
Sign up, connect your first GitLab project, and land your first RCA in a merge request.
This guide takes you from zero to your first RCA comment inside a merge request in under five minutes.
1. Create an account
Head to app.exlogare.net/login and enter your work email. We’ll email you a magic link — click it to land on the onboarding wizard.
2. Connect GitLab
Pick whichever mode fits your environment:
- Webhook — we give you a URL and a secret; you paste them into GitLab project settings.
- OAuth — you authorize Exlogare once; we poll your projects.
- Personal access token — fastest if your governance prefers short-lived tokens you can rotate from GitLab.
3. Break something on purpose
Push a commit to a branch that deliberately fails CI. Within 60 seconds, an RCA comment appears in the MR. If it doesn’t, check Dashboard → Events for the delivery trace.
4. (Optional) Create an API token
If you want to POST Jenkins build logs or script against Exlogare from CI, open Settings → API tokens in the dashboard and create a token. You will see the raw exl_… secret once — copy it into your secret manager before closing the dialog.
Next steps
- GitLab webhook mode — payload format, IP allow-list, secret rotation.
- GitLab OAuth mode — OAuth app registration.
- API reference — programmatic access with API tokens.