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GitLab - Abnormal number of repositories deleted

Description

'This hunting queries identify an unusual increase of repo deletion activities adversaries may want to disrupt availability or compromise integrity by deleting business data.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.1
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
1h
Query period
1d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let LearningPeriod = 7d;
let BinTime = 1h;
let RunTime = 1h;
let StartTime = 1h;
let NumberOfStds = 3;
let MinThreshold = 10.0;
let EndRunTime = StartTime - RunTime;
let EndLearningTime = StartTime + LearningPeriod;
let GitLabRepositoryDestroyEvents = (GitLabAudit
| where RemoveAction == "project" or RemoveAction == "repository");
GitLabRepositoryDestroyEvents
| where TimeGenerated between (ago(EndLearningTime) .. ago(StartTime))
| summarize count() by bin(TimeGenerated, BinTime)
| summarize AvgInLearning = avg(count_), StdInLearning = stdev(count_)
| extend LearningThreshold = max_of(AvgInLearning + StdInLearning * NumberOfStds, MinThreshold)
| extend Dummy = 1
| join kind=innerunique (GitLabRepositoryDestroyEvents
| where TimeGenerated between (ago(StartTime) .. ago(EndRunTime))
| summarize CountInRunTime = count() by bin(TimeGenerated, BinTime)
| extend Dummy = 1) on Dummy
| project-away Dummy
| where CountInRunTime > LearningThreshold

Declared entities

IPAccount

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
3efd09bd-a582-4410-b7ec-5ff21cfad7bd
Additional source files 2Solutions/GitLab/Analytic Rules/GitLab_Repo_Deletion.yamlsource ↗Solutions/GitLab/Data/Solution_Gitlab.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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