How I see the date when certain plugins were installed? I don't see the entries in the audit log.

[Kyle Day]

Hello,

I am trying to gather information about the installation date of plugins inside of JIRA.  I have access to pretty much everything, as I am an admin. 

Looking through the JIRA database, the only table I can find that has some information is the pluginversion table, which has all of the plugins, but the date that it contains is the last updated date, not the installation date.

I looked through the audit log as well, and I could not find any plugin installation events inside of it, even though they have been done recently.  Is there a specific keyword I should be searching for, or any reason why no plugin installation events are being logged there?  Our log retention time is unlimited.  I tried searching for "install", "plugin", and even specific names of plugins that I know has been installed recently, such as xray.

Audit logging has been turned on for the past few years, so there are plenty of other events being captured.

Thanks so much.

[Andy Heinzer · Accepted solution]

HI Kyle,

I see you are looking to learn more about when specific plugins where first installed Jira Server.

Unfortunately the audit log in Jira you are referring to is not designed to track or log such events.  You can see from the Auditing in Jira applications that the events listed there are limited in nature.  But that audit log is specific to Jira itself. 

The UPM (Universal plugin manager) that is built into Jira and other Atlassian products has its own Audit log.  You can see this if you go to Manage apps or manage add-ons, then scroll to the bottom of the page there is an audit log link there.  URL is also /plugins/servlet/upm/log?source=manage

Granted this UPM audit log is only showing you plugin changes in the last 90 days by default.   However at the bottom of that page you can set the interval in number of days before the events are purged from that log.  

Another caveat of this UPM audit log is that it does not appear to be differentiating between new installations of plugins and updates to existing plugins.  Both events are just logged here as an installation.  Which could complicate your search here.  That audit log can be used to see install events, but that log doesn't indicate if a previous version of that plugin was installed at the time of update.

I hope this helps.

Andy