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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to approach troubleshooting our automation rules when things go wrong or when our rules start performing sub-optimally.

We have learned how the audit log works and the wealth of information it provides in order to gain insights into what is happening when a rule is executed. In addition, we also learned how to make use of the audit log to output messages, which will help you to debug your rules.

We also learned about the various service limits and how to monitor these using automation rules, giving us the ability to receive an early warning before rules breach their processing limits.

Finally, we looked at the performance insights available to project and global administrators and learned how this gives an overview of the performance of the rules in the system and how we can use this to stay on top of possible performance issues.

By understanding how to use the audit log for debugging, you will be able to write more robust rules...