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Jira Health Dashboard

This Jira Health dashboard offers a quick view of the state of your next release, alongside the health of the Jira project as a whole. It uses SquaredUp’s Web API and PowerShell tiles to improve on Jira’s native dashboarding capabilities.

Tim Wheeler , SquaredUp

How do I get it?

Challenge

While the querying and visualizations in Jira are decent, it is not possible to combine them with data from any other sources. It is also a known limitation that when accessing the Jira Web API, you are often limited to 100 results per query. Moreover, any dashboard you build can only be shared with people with a Jira license, severely limiting its reach.

Solution

Using SquaredUp Dashboard Server, we have solved all three of these problems easily with the Web API and PowerShell tiles, as well as the Open Access feature. Using this example Jira health dashboard, you can easily show the state of your next release alongside the health of the Jira project.

While we’ve focused on Jira content in this dashboard, you can easily link to other sources using SquaredUp’s native integrations as well as its Web API tile – such as linking your bugs to support tickets from ServiceNow or Zendesk.

You can also use the SquaredUp PowerShell tile to loop through multiple calls and return exactly the data you require, circumventing Jira’s limit of 100 results. 

With Open Access, you can easily share the dashboard with the Support Team or with Senior Management so they can see the next release’s progress. It’s as easy as sending a link, or putting your dashboard on a wall monitor or website. No additional licenses required!

Feel free to add other sources or mix and match from SquaredUp’s other example dashboards as you see fit.

Dashboard walk-through

The dashboard is split into two columns. The first column focuses on the next release using the Jira field ‘fixVersion’. You can see the release roadmap, release completion, epic status, task status and bug fixes.

Jira Health Dashboard built in SquaredUp

The second column groups data based on the name of a specific project. You can see the Top 10 epic backlog, bugs over time, as well as the bug trend, severity and priority.

To clarify, release completion is calculated by total issues Closed or Merged, divided by the total issues in the release. This can be further fine-tuned to only look at the specific issue types that are important to you by changing the API call in the PowerShell script.

Release completion and task status from Jira dashboard

Similarly, on the Project side, the Top 10 list (Web API) can be set to any issue type by adjusting the API call. The bug trend line is calculated in the PowerShell script with the formula “total bugs open + new bugs – bugs closed or merged”.

Top 10 epics and bug trend for Jira dashboard

How do I import and configure this dashboard?

1. Ensure you have SquaredUp v5.3 or above.

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2. Create a Web API provider to connect with your Jira environment.

Web API Integration	Basic Auth
Service name	Jira API basic Note: The name is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly like given here for the tiles to recognise the provider automatically. If you name it differently, you will need to select the provider manually for each tile on the dashboard.
Base url	<URL of your Jira instance API endpoint> for example `https://<JIRA domain>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/`
Username	The Jira user account name you will use to access the API
Password	Paste in the new API token created according to How to create an API token from your Atlassian account

3. Create a PowerShell profile in SquaredUp.

Name	Jira PS
Description	Contains an encoded version of the username and password pair that will be sent in the Header variable of the API
Script	Copy and paste the script below, replacing <username> and <password> with the credentials for the user account you are using to access the API.

					$user = 'username'
$pass = 'password'
$pair = "$($user):$($pass)"
 
$encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair))
 
$basicAuthValue = "Basic $encodedCreds"
 
$Headers = @{
 Authorization = $basicAuthValue
}