What is the correct way to add or track planned holidays/personal time off in Jira? I would like to

[Garama]

I want to enter my planned holidays for 2026 in Jira so that my manager can easily see my availability. However, I cannot find any native feature in Jira for personal holiday or PTO tracking. Does Jira support this natively, or do I need a plugin such as ActivityTimeline or Vacation Manager (since Jira does not include built‑in holiday tracking)?

If plugins are required, which one is most suitable for simple personal holiday visibility?

[Nikola Perisic]

Hello @Garama 

You can create a new Kanban board that will be shared with your manager. From there, you can have Start and End date added to your screen. A new field of number value would have to be created that will calculate the difference between the dates with an automation rule:

For the last component of the automation rule, your field will be named differently.

[Mendel Liang]

Hi Garama - 

As of yet there isn't an official native Jira feature that tracks a user's time off - however there is a feature in development which is meant to tackle this case natively called Individual Capacity Planning here if you'd like some more information about it. https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Introducing-Individual-Capacity-Planning-in-Jira-Join-our-Early/ba-p/3161425