I keep coming back to the same Jira Cloud cleanup problem: group cleanup.
Deleting the group is the easy part. Figuring out what it still affects before making the change is the part that gets messy.
Atlassian’s own documentation says the UI does not directly show whether a specific group is used in a permission scheme, and their workaround points admins to the REST API plus Python.
In practice, the first places I keep checking are:
- permission schemes
- project roles
Disclosure: I built Group Impact Audit for Jira for this workflow. It is read-only and focused on showing group references in permission schemes and project roles before cleanup.
Curious how other admins are handling this today.
What do you usually check before removing a group, and are there places people often forget to review?
