Inquiry: End-of-Day Developer Report Feature in Jira

[Admin _ Quality Assurance]

Hi team,

I wanted to check — does Jira have a built-in report or feature where developers can submit an end-of-day summary of what they worked on? Something like a daily progress log tied to their tasks or issues?

If it's not a native feature, is there a plugin or workaround you'd recommend?

Thanks!

[Danut M _StonikByte_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Admin _ Quality Assurance,

As advice by @Arkadiusz Wroblewski, the best way is to start logging the work on issues on a daily basis. 

This can be done on the issue screen, under Work log tab.

When adding the logs, specify the time spent and add a short work description.

Once you do this, you will be able to generate reports based on the work-log data.

But for the End-Of-Day reporting, Jira does not offer so many options. Its reports or dashboard gadget are limited. Most likely you will need to search for an app (plugin) on Atlassian Marketplace that provides daily or custom worklog reports.

If you are open to try an app, our Great Gadgets app offers a Worklog Reports & Timesheets gadget that allow you to generate and display the report you need.

  

This gadget is flexible higly and configurable. It allows to create all kind of worklog reports and charts, daily, weekly, montly etc.

For this specific case, you have to configure it like this:

Hope this helps.  

Danut. 

[Admin _ Quality Assurance]

@Danut M _StonikByte_ Thank you so much for your help!

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Hello @Admin _ Quality Assurance

Not as a dedicated native end-of-day developer report feature.

Jira support this indirectly through things like work logs, comments, dashboards, or automation, but I am not aware of a built-in feature where developers submit a formal daily report out of the box.

It is usually handled through process + configuration.

[Admin _ Quality Assurance]

Hi @Arkadiusz Wroblewski, thank you for the response!

Would you be able to point me in the right direction on how to configure this? We're looking for something simple where developers can log what they worked on at the end of each day. Even a basic setup using existing Jira features would work for us.

Any advice would be appreciated!

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

@Admin _ Quality Assurance 

For a simple native setup, I would start with time tracking / work logs.

The easiest approach would be to ask developers to log work on the issues they touched at the end of the day and add a short note in the work log if needed. Jira supports that natively, and work logs are then visible directly on the issue. 

If you want a basic overview for leads or managers, I would then add a simple dashboard on top of that with shared filters. Jira dashboards support gadgets, so that gives you a lightweight reporting layer without needing an app straight away. 

So from my side, the cleanest starting point would be: enable time tracking, make sure the team has permission to log work, and use that as the daily reporting habit first. 

If later you need something more formal or timesheet-like, then I would look at an app  but for a basic daily developer update, native work logs are the simplest place to start.

[Admin _ Quality Assurance]

@Arkadiusz Wroblewski Thank you so much!