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Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By : Gareth Cantrell
Book Image

Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira

By: Gareth Cantrell

Overview of this book

Atlassian Jira makes it easier to track the progress of your projects, but it can lead to repetitive and time-consuming tasks for teams. No-code automation will enable you to increase productivity by automating these tasks. Automate Everyday Tasks in Jira provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. You will start by learning how automation in Jira works, along with discovering best practices for writing automation rules. Then you’ll be introduced to the building blocks of automation, including triggers, conditions, and actions, before moving on to advanced rule-related techniques. After you’ve become familiar with the techniques, you’ll find out how to integrate with external tools, such as GitHub, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, all without writing a single line of code. Toward the end, you’ll also be able to employ advanced rules to create custom notifications and integrate with external systems. By the end of this Jira book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of automation rules and learned how to use them to automate everyday tasks in Jira without using any code.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
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Section 2: Beyond the Basics
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Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Chapter 10: Troubleshooting Tips and Techniques

It is an inevitable fact that at some point, your automation rules will fail with errors or slow down for no apparent reason. Even meticulously planned and implemented rules will eventually be subject to an unforeseen error. In these cases, understanding how to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and debug your rules will help you solve these issues quicker.

In this chapter, we will introduce you to some tips and techniques to better understand what is happening to your rules and how to debug them. We'll take a look at the audit log and how you can use this to better understand what is going on during your rule executions and how to leverage it for debugging purposes.

We will also learn about the service limits in place to prevent rogue rules from negatively impacting the performance of your instance and how you can proactively monitor your rules to avoid breaching these limits.

Finally, you will learn how to use the performance...