How can i consolidate 3 different Jira instances in 1. out of 3, two are Permium and 1 is standard.

[Hamza Ahmad]

I want to consolidate all three Jira instances into 1 standard one so I can save license pricing. 

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Hamza Ahmad 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Have you explored native functionality to copy data from one cloud site to another??

https://support.atlassian.com/organization-administration/docs/copy-product-data/

There are many things to consider in the consolidation of multiple Jira Cloud instances into a single instance:

- What apps are in use in each instance? What is the impact of adding all the apps to one instance?

- What will migrate and what will not migrate? How do you address the entities that don't migrate?

- Are the user accounts the same across the instances? 

- How are you handling user provisioning?

- Are the sites under one Organization or separate Organizations?

- Are there items identically named (projects, custom fields, Teams, user groups, ...) that are not actually identical?

- How will you address the loss of functionality that is available only for Premium subscriptions?

- To what extent are Automation Rules used? Will you be adversely impacted by the service limit differences on Automation Rules between Premium and Standard subscriptions? Will a single instance Standard subscription service limits be sufficient to handle the Automation needs from consolidating three instances?

- Are you Jira instances integrated with other products, like Confluence or other non-Atlassian products? How will those integrations be impacted?

Consolidation of instances can be a very complex endeavor. You may want to consider engaging an Atlassian Solution Partner that has experience with this type of work to ensure the best possible experience and outcome.

Disclosure: I work for Praecipio, an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner that you can find in the Atlassian Partner Directory, and we include site consolidation in the service we offer.

[David Nickell]

As normal, my answer will lean heavily on the REST APIs.    In particular, I use the REST APIs in Power BI and I am able to see the data from multiple instances in the same Power BI file.  The trick is (1) dynamic URLS and (2) appending a site key in your API results.  

In the 1st screen shot I am showing the Project List for three (3) Separate Sites all embedded in the same power BI file.  It would be very possible to send all that data through the POST API calls to put it all fresh somewhere else.   (note -- not to be confused with easy or even proven, but it is certainly possible).

The second screen shot is where I have imported the Rest Documentation into power BI as well.  I like the easy reference versus the Atlassian Documentation pages.  (but hey, it's there documentation available in JSON format that makes it possible for me to report on it).

This is all very cursory of course... but its where I would start.