Enterprise administrator documentation

Find out if GitHub Enterprise Server is right for your business.

Get started with top-down administration by understanding the key components of an enterprise account.

Administrators must decide how users will access the enterprise's resources on GitHub.

Find the right role to grant access to your enterprise's settings and data.

In a GitHub Enterprise Server cluster, nodes are individual virtual machines (VMs) running the GitHub Enterprise Server software that comprise the instance. Each node runs a set of services.

The cluster topology for GitHub Enterprise Server is designed to support tens of thousands of users where other topologies would experience resource exhaustion. In a cluster, the instance's services scale horizontally across multiple nodes.

Collectd metrics provide a legacy monitoring solution for GitHub Enterprise Server instances that is supported alongside a public preview of OpenTelemetry metrics.

Geo-replication on GitHub Enterprise Server uses multiple active replicas to fulfill requests from geographically distributed data centers.

GitHub Actions can improve developer productivity by automating your enterprise's software development cycle.

GitHub Connect enhances GitHub Enterprise Server by giving you access to data and workflows from GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Find out if GitHub Enterprise Server is right for your business.

Learn about GitHub's enterprise products and deployment options for GitHub Enterprise.