Automation Rule Management API is now in Open Beta - Try it out and share your feedback!

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Hey Atlassian Community,

We’re excited to announce the introduction of Automation Rule Management APIs, now available in open beta for Global Administrators.

These APIs give you programmatic control over rule configurations, making it easier to manage automation at scale. As part of this beta, you’ll be able to perform following operations:

• Get rule summaries for all rules

• Search for rule summaries

• Create a new rule

• Get rule by UUID

• Update an existing rule

• Enable or disable a rule

• Update rule scope

This is a key step in making automation more manageable and scalable in large organisations

Try it out

If you're a Global Administrator, you can start using the APIs today:

- API documentation: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/automation/rest/api-group-rule-management/#api-group-rule-management

- Feature request: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AUTO-51

We’d love your feedback and suggestions

We’d love to hear how you’re using these APIs and where we can improve during this beta. Please drop your feedback in the comments below or add it directly to the public feature request ticket above.

Thanks for being part of this beta!

Dhanapal Mohanasamy
Atlassian Automation Team

[Calvin]

Woo awesome work, have a few ideas where I might be able to use this. Though the thought of an automation creating an automation creating an automation sounds tempting hehe.

[Brita Moorus]

I had the same thought, @Calvin 😄

[Rune Rasmussen]

For most of the endpoints we have to specify a {product}.
It would be nice with a link to the Base paths page. It'll save API novices like myself some frustration.
And maybe an exhaustive list on that page rather than just "e.g. jira, confluence".

I see that you can scope automations to Teams, but I can't select that in the UI when creating a new or modifying an existing rule.
Is this foreshadowing something else that is going to be released soon?

Using the UI:

Set with API:

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Dhanapal Mohanasamy 

Thanks for the information and the work the team is doing on automation improvements!

As this REST API seems related to this open suggestion, what progress can you share on endpoints to manage / monitor the automation audit logs: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AUTO-51

I have been experimenting with these endpoints for a few weeks, and while useful, the response limits make some usage scenarios challenging.  For example, one cannot easily get and document rules on a Confluence page because paging is required for more than 100 rules returned (although they could be more easily looped from an external app rather than using a rule to perform documentation management). 

Additionally, the Search for Rule Summaries endpoint has neither a query-by used-actions nor an "expand" for all rule details.  Perhaps another more generic Rule Search endpoint would help.

Finally, some unrelated rule testing I was doing showed no limitations on accessing and modifying a rule from that same rule scope.  This opens some risky scenarios of self-modifying rules.  What can you share about any new automation service limits regarding use of these endpoints, perhaps helping customers prevent accidental misuse.

Kind regards,
Bill