Jira’s New Rate Limits Are Live. Are Your Apps Breaking Silently? 🚦

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March 2 has come and gone, and Atlassian’s new points-based API rate limit system is officially live and being enforced.

While this is a massive win for overall platform stability, it introduced a terrifying blind spot for Jira Admins: Zero native visibility into your quota.

Right now, there is no admin dashboard or built-in alert to tell you when your instance is burning through its hourly points. If your installed Marketplace apps (or custom scripts) consume your site's quota, they simply hit HTTP 429 errors and stop working until the next hour.

Your first warning? A flood of user complaints saying "Jira is broken."

You can't manage what you can't see. That’s exactly why we built QuotaWatch. ⏱️

QuotaWatch lives right inside your Jira Admin UI and gives you back control over your instance:

📊 Real-Time Dashboard and Activity : Instantly see your remaining points, current Tier, and exactly

when the next hourly reset happens.

🚨 Proactive Alerts: Get pinged in Slack or Microsoft Teams before your instance runs out of quota, so you can investigate exactly what's eating your points.

📈 24-Hour History: Spot usage spikes, peak hours, and past rate-limit incidents without guessing.

The best part? QuotaWatch is incredibly lightweight. It polls efficiently, using less than 0.006% of your standard hourly quota, meaning it never contributes to the problem it's solving.

Don't wait for your users to tell you something broke. Get the visibility you need to keep your Jira instance running smoothly under the new rules.

👇 Check out QuotaWatch on the Atlassian Marketplace today and take back your visibility. [Link in Comments]

@Rodney Nissen _ServiceRocket_ _TJL_ @Rachel Wright @Jack Brickey 

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Here is the link to QuotaWatch on the Marketplace: [Link]. Now that CHANGE-2958 is fully live, how are other #JiraAdmins monitoring their API usage?