Start the year with a healthier instance: what’s new in Optimizer for Jira?

[Matthew Joslin_AppFox_]

“How healthy is our Jira right now?”

As teams head into a new year of planning, delivery, and scaling, many Jira admins and platform owners are also asking this important question.

Optimizer for Jira helps Jira admins, PMOs, and technical teams keep Jira performant, scalable, and easier for all users to interact with by:

• Surfacing configuration risks and Jira limit issues before they become problems
• Providing clear health checks with actionable recommendations
• Enabling safe cleanup and consolidation of fields, labels, and configurations that doesn’t break projects
• Giving measurable criteria for instance health and allowing greater reporting of value impact to stakeholders

If your Jira has grown organically over time (and whose hasn’t?), Optimizer helps you reset, simplify, and move into the year with confidence.

Here’s a snapshot of some of the latest improvements now available in Optimizer for Jira:

🧹 More powerful cleanup & consolidation

• Label Merging lets you replace one label with another across all issues, making it easy to standardise naming and remove duplicates.
• Config Merging now supports Radio Button fields, expanding your ability to consolidate custom fields safely and reduce clutter.

🔍 Clearer health insights for growing Jira instances

• New health checks highlight projects nearing Jira field limits, helping admins spot scaling risks early, especially in advance of the new limits coming in February.
• Health checks now include actionable guidance, so it’s easier to understand what to fix, and why it matters.

🤖 Smarter support for Jira Admins

• Improved onboarding and guided tours make it easier for new admins to get value quickly, and senior team leads to onboard new admin teams seamlessly.

✨ A better Admin experience

• A refreshed UI that's aligned with improved Atlassian accessibility standards, and Dark Mode support.
• Quality-of-life improvements like saved table filters and more reliable CSV exports.

Why does this matter right now?

The start of the year is a natural moment to tidy up technical debt, prepare for growth, and futureproof your instance(s!) from headaches that might be coming down the line in 2026.

The major updates above make it easier than ever to understand the state of your Jira, take action with confidence, and keep things under control as your instance evolves.

If you’d like to see these features in action yourself, take out a free trial today and start the year the right way.