Jira

Summary

This plugin collects Jira data through Jira Cloud REST API. It then computes and visualizes various engineering metrics from the Jira data.

Project Metrics This Covers

Configuration

In order to fully use this plugin, you will need to set various configurations via Dev Lake's config-ui service. Open config-ui on browser, by default the URL is http://localhost:4000, then go to Data Integrations / JIRA page. JIRA plugin currently supports multiple data connections, Here you can add new connection to your JIRA connection or update the settings if needed.

For each connection, you will need to set up following items:

• Connection Name: This allow you to distinguish different connections.
• Endpoint URL: The JIRA instance api endpoint, for JIRA Cloud Service, it would be: https://<mydomain>.atlassian.net/rest. devlake officially supports JIRA Cloud Service on atlassian.net, may or may not work for JIRA Server Instance.
• Basic Auth Token: First, generate a JIRA API TOKEN for your JIRA account on JIRA console (see Generating API token), then, in config-ui click the KEY icon on the right side of the input to generate a full HTTP BASIC AUTH token for you.
• Issue Type Mapping: JIRA is highly customizable, each JIRA instance may have a different set of issue types than others. In order to compute and visualize metrics for different instances, you need to map your issue types to standard ones. See Issue Type Mapping for detail.
• Epic Key: unfortunately, epic relationship implementation in JIRA is based on custom field, which is vary from instance to instance. Please see Find Out Custom Fields.
• Story Point Field: same as Epic Key.
• Remotelink Commit SHA:A regular expression that matches commit links to determine whether an external link is a link to a commit. Taking gitlab as an example, to match all commits similar to https://gitlab.com/merico-dev/ce/example-repository/-/commit/8ab8fb319930dbd8615830276444b8545fd0ad24, you can directly use the regular expression /commit/([0-9a-f]{40})$

Generating API token

1. Once logged into Jira, visit the url https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens
2. Click the Create API Token button, and give it any label name

Issue Type Mapping

Devlake supports 3 standard types, all metrics are computed based on these types:

• Bug: Problems found during test phase, before they can reach the production environment.
• Incident: Problems went through test phash, got deployed into production environment.
• Requirement: Normally, it would be Story on your instance if you adopted SCRUM.

You can may map arbitrary YOUR OWN ISSUE TYPE to a single STANDARD ISSUE TYPE, normally, one would map Story to Requirement, but you could map both Story and Task to Requirement if that was your case. Those unspecified type would be copied as standard type directly for your convenience, so you don't need to map your Bug to standard Bug.

Type mapping is critical for some metrics, like Requirement Count, make sure to map your custom type correctly.

Find Out Custom Field

Please follow this guide: How to find Jira the custom field ID in Jira? · merico-dev/lake Wiki

Collect Data From JIRA

In order to collect data from JIRA, you have to compose a JSON looks like following one, and send it via Triggers page on config-ui: Warning: Data collection only supports single-task execution, and the results of concurrent multi-task execution may not meet expectations.

[
  [
    {
      "plugin": "jira",
      "options": {
          "connectionId": 1,
          "boardId": 8,
          "since": "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z"
      }
    }
  ]
]

• connectionId: The ID field from JIRA Integration page.
• boardId: JIRA board id, see Find Board Id for detail.
• since: optional, download data since specified date/time only.

Find Board Id

1. Navigate to the Jira board in the browser
2. in the URL bar, get the board id from the parameter ?rapidView=

Example:

https://<your_jira_endpoint>/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=51

Your board id is used in all REST requests to DevLake. You do not need to configure this at the data connection level.

API

Data Connections Management

Data Connections

• Get all data connection

GET /plugins/jira/connections


[
  {
    "ID": 14,
    "CreatedAt": "2021-10-11T11:49:19.029Z",
    "UpdatedAt": "2021-10-11T11:49:19.029Z",
    "name": "test-jira-connection",
    "endpoint": "https://merico.atlassian.net/rest",
    "basicAuthEncoded": "basicAuth",
    "epicKeyField": "epicKeyField",
    "storyPointField": "storyPointField",
  }
]

• Create a new data connection

POST /plugins/jira/connections
{
	"name": "jira data connection name",
	"endpoint": "jira api endpoint, i.e. https://merico.atlassian.net/rest",
	"basicAuthEncoded": "generated by `echo -n <jira login email>:<jira token> | base64`",
	"epicKeyField": "name of customfield of epic key",
	"storyPointField": "name of customfield of story point",
	"typeMappings": { // optional, send empty object to delete all typeMappings of the data connection
		"userType": {
			"standardType": "devlake standard type"
		}
	}
}

• Update data connection

PUT /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId
{
	"name": "jira data connection name",
	"endpoint": "jira api endpoint, i.e. https://merico.atlassian.net/rest",
	"basicAuthEncoded": "generated by `echo -n <jira login email>:<jira token> | base64`",
	"epicKeyField": "name of customfield of epic key",
	"storyPointField": "name of customfield of story point",
	"typeMappings": { // optional, send empty object to delete all typeMappings of the data connection
		"userType": {
			"standardType": "devlake standard type",
		}
	}
}

• Get data connection detail

GET /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId


{
	"name": "jira data connection name",
	"endpoint": "jira api endpoint, i.e. https://merico.atlassian.net/rest",
	"basicAuthEncoded": "generated by `echo -n <jira login email>:<jira token> | base64`",
	"epicKeyField": "name of customfield of epic key",
	"storyPointField": "name of customfield of story point",
	"typeMappings": { // optional, send empty object to delete all typeMappings of the data connection
		"userType": {
			"standardType": "devlake standard type",
		}
	}
}

• Delete data connection

DELETE /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId

Type mappings

• Get all type mappings

GET /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId/type-mappings


[
  {
    "jiraConnectionId": 16,
    "userType": "userType",
    "standardType": "standardType"
  }
]

• Create a new type mapping

POST /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId/type-mappings
{
    "userType": "userType",
    "standardType": "standardType"
}

• Update type mapping

PUT /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId/type-mapping/:userType
{
    "standardType": "standardTypeUpdated"
}

• Delete type mapping

DELETE /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId/type-mapping/:userType

• API forwarding

GET /plugins/jira/connections/:connectionId/proxy/rest/*path

For example:
Requests to http://your_devlake_host/plugins/jira/connections/1/proxy/rest/agile/1.0/board/8/sprint
would forward to
https://your_jira_host/rest/agile/1.0/board/8/sprint

{
    "maxResults": 1,
    "startAt": 0,
    "isLast": false,
    "values": [
        {
            "id": 7,
            "self": "https://merico.atlassian.net/rest/agile/1.0/sprint/7",
            "state": "closed",
            "name": "EE Sprint 7",
            "startDate": "2020-06-12T00:38:51.882Z",
            "endDate": "2020-06-26T00:38:00.000Z",
            "completeDate": "2020-06-22T05:59:58.980Z",
            "originBoardId": 8,
            "goal": ""
        }
    ]
}