and though bugs are the bane of my existence, rest assured the wretched thing will get the best of care here

Application statistics API

Get current application statistics

List the current statistics of the GitLab instance. You have to be an administrator in order to perform this action.

NOTE: These statistics are approximate.

GET /application/statistics
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/application/statistics"

Example response:

{
   "forks": "10",
   "issues": "76",
   "merge_requests": "27",
   "notes": "954",
   "snippets": "50",
   "ssh_keys": "10",
   "milestones": "40",
   "users": "50",
   "groups": "10",
   "projects": "20",
   "active_users": "50"
}