diff --git a/app/models/repository.rb b/app/models/repository.rb
index ff35529586293d37ae81ca98654c2c9fa552db7a..0d60b5a6434f79429859c93a6ee48a649ce34a82 100644
--- a/app/models/repository.rb
+++ b/app/models/repository.rb
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ class Repository
                       changelog license_blob license_key gitignore
                       gitlab_ci_yml branch_names tag_names branch_count
                       tag_count avatar exists? root_ref has_visible_content?
-                      issue_template_names merge_request_template_names xcode_project?).freeze
+                      issue_template_names merge_request_template_names xcode_project?
+                      insights_config).freeze
 
   # Methods that use cache_method but only memoize the value
   MEMOIZED_CACHED_METHODS = %i(license).freeze
@@ -57,7 +58,8 @@ class Repository
     avatar: :avatar,
     issue_template: :issue_template_names,
     merge_request_template: :merge_request_template_names,
-    xcode_config: :xcode_project?
+    xcode_config: :xcode_project?,
+    insights_config: :insights_config
   }.freeze
 
   def initialize(full_path, project, disk_path: nil, is_wiki: false)
@@ -663,6 +665,11 @@ class Repository
   end
   cache_method :xcode_project?
 
+  def insights_config
+    file_on_head(:insights_config)
+  end
+  cache_method :insights_config
+
   def head_commit
     @head_commit ||= commit(self.root_ref)
   end
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb b/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb
index 2770469ca9f040d78879d8c20bbeae82d79d8203..4678ef792c08170e14410bfa0c2c37aa76dc84d6 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/file_detector.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ module Gitlab
       gitignore: '.gitignore',
       gitlab_ci: '.gitlab-ci.yml',
       route_map: '.gitlab/route-map.yml',
+      insights_config: '.gitlab/insights.yml',
 
       # Dependency files
       cartfile: %r{\ACartfile[^/]*\z},
diff --git a/spec/lib/gitlab/file_detector_spec.rb b/spec/lib/gitlab/file_detector_spec.rb
index 4ba9094b24e671dbdb69df8a87808c181fd89c75..933366fd855db83f83c91be57b9e142e1ca37855 100644
--- a/spec/lib/gitlab/file_detector_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/gitlab/file_detector_spec.rb
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ describe Gitlab::FileDetector do
       expect(described_class.type_of('.gitlab/merge_request_templates/foo.md')).to eq(:merge_request_template)
     end
 
+    it 'returns the type of an Insights config file' do
+      expect(described_class.type_of('.gitlab/insights.yml')).to eq(:insights_config)
+    end
+
     it 'returns nil for an unknown file' do
       expect(described_class.type_of('foo.txt')).to be_nil
     end
diff --git a/spec/models/repository_spec.rb b/spec/models/repository_spec.rb
index 6599b4e765ae87a53cde2e1fee458b971493dff7..759dcd22b42956fd13e66a2a6f75aa71e3ba5e54 100644
--- a/spec/models/repository_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/repository_spec.rb
@@ -1616,7 +1616,8 @@ describe Repository do
         :has_visible_content?,
         :issue_template_names,
         :merge_request_template_names,
-        :xcode_project?
+        :xcode_project?,
+        :insights_config
       ])
 
       repository.after_change_head
@@ -1882,6 +1883,26 @@ describe Repository do
     end
   end
 
+  describe "#insights_config", :use_clean_rails_memory_store_caching do
+    it 'returns a valid Insights config file' do
+      files = [TestBlob.new('file'), TestBlob.new('.gitlab/insights.yml')]
+
+      expect(repository.tree).to receive(:blobs).and_return(files)
+      expect(repository.insights_config.path).to eq('.gitlab/insights.yml')
+    end
+
+    it 'returns nil if does not exist' do
+      expect(repository.tree).to receive(:blobs).and_return([])
+      expect(repository.insights_config).to be_nil
+    end
+
+    it 'returns nil for an empty repository' do
+      allow(repository).to receive(:root_ref).and_raise(Gitlab::Git::Repository::NoRepository)
+
+      expect(repository.insights_config).to be_nil
+    end
+  end
+
   describe "#keep_around" do
     it "does not fail if we attempt to reference bad commit" do
       expect(repository.kept_around?('abc1234')).to be_falsey