A quality gate is the best way to enforce a quality policy in your organization. Setting up a quality gate allows you to prevent any code that doesn't pass code reviews from being merged into certain branches.

Before proceeding with creating a quality gate in your VCS for your repo, you must create a dedicated Code Reviews connection user for your project.

To automatically monitor your code with Code Reviews, you need to configure your Code Reviews Settings. You can configure your settings by navigating to the Code Reviews page, select the repository you’d like to enable gating on, then click the gear icon on the right:

In the Settings, navigate to Configuration and ensure the following settings are checked:

You must also have webhooks created. You can create a webhook by selecting the Create Webhook button.

If you have webhooks already created, your settings will look like this.

You can find out more information about the Code Reviews Settings on this Help Article.

Please review our Help Article to learn how to set up a dedicated integration user for Code Reviews.

You can get to branch policy settings with the following:
​Project Settings > Repository > Policies > Branch Policies > <Branch Name>.