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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)
1
Section 1: Getting Started – the Basics
4
Section 2: Beyond the Basics
8
Section 3: Advanced Use Cases with Automation

Gaining insights on performance

To ensure the overall success of your automation rules and that performance is maintained at a satisfactory level requires that you keep an eye out for any issues that could cause problems in the long run.

We have already seen how the audit log can give you insights into whether your rules are running successfully or with errors, or are causing performance issues and being throttled. In addition to this, having the ability to monitor and proactively notify the administrators when rules threaten to breach their service limits helps you to keep an eye on things.

While this does help, it can be time consuming to go through and examine the audit logs, especially when you have a large number of rules executing frequently.

In this section, we'll look at the performance insights feature of automation rules, which will give you a bird's-eye view of the overall performance of your rules.

Performance insights are available to both project...