Did You Know You Can See (Some) of Your Server Info in Jira Cloud?

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Hey Community! 👋

While working on an automated assessment workflow yesterday, I came across something interesting that I hadn’t noticed before: you can actually retrieve some server-related info through the Jira Cloud REST API.

The endpoint in question:

GET /rest/api/2/serverInfo

What kind of info?

Here are a few things you'll find in the response:

• serverTimeZone – The time zone your instance is using

• version – Yes, cloud versions exist! Atlassian just handles the updates for you

• locale – The default language and region settings for your instance

• serverTime – The current server time

• And a few other bits like buildDate, buildNumber, and display URLs

Sample response:

{"baseUrl":"https://your-domain.atlassian.net","buildDate":"2020-03-26T22:20:59.000+0000","buildNumber":582,"defaultLocale":{"locale":"en_AU"},"displayUrl":"https://instance.jira.your-domain.com","displayUrlConfluence":"https://instance.confluence.your-domain.com","displayUrlServicedeskHelpCenter":"https://instance.help.your-domain.com","scmInfo":"1f51473f5c7b75c1a69a0090f4832cdc5053702a","serverTime":"2020-03-31T16:43:50.000+0000","serverTimeZone":"Australia/Sydney","serverTitle":"My Jira instance","version":"1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT","versionNumbers":[5,0,0]}

- Find out more: developer.atlassian.com 

This is probably more interesting than essential.

But knowing it’s there can be useful for localization checks, or just to satisfy your curiosity as an admin or developer ;)

[Rick Westbrock]

Thanks for sharing this, I'm a curious nerd by nature so I'm interested in such details about our server. This may help me when I see differences between our sandbox and production instances to see if they are different versions or build numbers.

Did you just stumble across this while looking for something else in the API documentation?

[Pedro Olmo]

Great contribution! Thank you very much 🙌