Performance and Scale Digest: 2026 Q1
Hey Atlassian Community,
Welcome to the 2026 Q1 edition of the Performance and Scale Digest, your go-to source for new and upcoming investments in Atlassian Cloud performance, scale, and reliability. Let’s dive in.
Performance improvements
These updates and best practices help your environment handle more users and data without sacrificing performance.
Expanding limits, guardrails, and data management tools for Jira
Atlassian is helping you keep Jira optimized and easier to manage by introducing new data limits, guardrails, and data management tools:
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New limits: Starting September 2026, the Jira Cloud family of apps will enforce new hard limits on several data types to keep their volumes controlled for you.
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New guardrails: We’ve released new guardrails, or recommended best practices, for space roles and space role actors.
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New data management tools: We’re rolling out 3 new admin cleanup tools that make it easier to find and remove unused configuration items in bulk.
Performance mode for Confluence
Confluence now automatically activates “performance mode” to keep large or complex pages fast and responsive. When active, this mode temporarily turns off certain features in the background to reduce load times, so you can keep working smoothly on content-heavy pages.
Click “Show details” in the Confluence page editor to see if Performance mode is active
Hardware and network best practices for better performance in Atlassian Cloud
Following our TLS and firewall best practices article, we’ve published new guidance that explains how your hardware and network impact page load times in Atlassian Cloud. This page provides practical recommendations to boost performance and keep teams working efficiently, such as using devices with 8 or more CPU cores and at least 10 Mbps download speeds.
Enterprise-grade scalability
These enhancements ensure your cloud environment scales seamlessly with your growing user base.
Our scale promise just got bigger
Big news! To help you bring more teams to cloud faster, we’re raising the bar on our promise for higher user limits in Jira Service Management and Confluence:
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Jira Service Management will support up to 100,000 agents per site by the end of Q1 2026, doubling our previous announcement of 50,000 agents.
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Confluence will support up to 250,000 users per site in Q2 2026.
Trusted resilience and reliability
These features help you maintain consistent uptime and resilience so your operations run smoothly.
Backup and Restore for Jira Cloud family of apps and Confluence
While our native disaster recovery protects against infrastructure failures, Atlassian Backup and Restore safeguards against customer-initiated incidents like accidental deletions, corruption, or ransomware. Now available as an add-on for the Jira Cloud Family of Apps and Confluence on Premium or Enterprise plans, it helps you protect sensitive data, meet compliance requirements, and restore operations quickly after an incident.
Manage your backup and restore policies in Atlassian Administration
Try out System Health in Administration
System Health provides you with personalized reliability dashboards and automated alerts for only your sites and apps. Org admins can try out the open beta right now by going to Administration > Insights > System Health.
That’s a wrap for the 2026 Q1 Performance and Scale Digest. If you haven’t yet, be sure to register for Team '26 Anaheim for exclusive announcements and in-depth sessions about our continued investment in performance, scale, reliability. If you’re attending, come say hello to us at the administration booth, located in the platform hub!
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