Tips for optimizing Jira board performance with many custom fields?

[merry chriistmas]

Hi everyone! 

I’ve been working with Jira for a while, and as our projects have grown, we’ve added a lot of custom fields and workflows. Lately, the boards and filters are becoming slower, especially when switching views or loading complex filters.

Has anyone faced similar performance issues and found good ways to optimize board speed? For example:
• Best practices for managing or cleaning up unused custom fields
• Ways to simplify filters without losing important data
• Any settings in Jira Cloud that can help with performance

Would really appreciate real‑world tips or suggestions

[Staffan Redelius]

Hi @merry chriistmas 

Removing unused custom fields can be done from Administration -> Work Items -> Custom fields. You can see when the field was lastley used. That will give you a hint. Just be aware that removing custom fields will also remove the data in the fields. An better option might be just to remove them from the screens if the are not used.

In my experience the loading time for boards mainly depends on the board filter. Try to narrow the search by project(s) so you don't start the filter with a broad search like Assigne in (user1, user2, user 3) or Issuetype in (story, task) since that will force Jira to search thru all issues before narrowing it down to what you actually need to see.

Let me know if this helps!
/Staffan 

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

@Staffan Redelius 

Unfortunately, thats Spam :)

Haha i smiled when i seen "Roblox"

[Staffan Redelius]

@Arkadiusz Wroblewski  are you answering the correct post? 😉

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

@Staffan Redelius 

Haha using Phone Happens.

But I swear one of this Posts was referencing something to Roblox 😂

[Staffan Redelius]

Yes, it was the post below, I flagged it as Spam so it has now disapeard 😉

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

@Staffan Redelius 

Ey you scared me that I getting old and answering on wrong Topics.🤣🤠🤭

Oh Hero. I try also flagging with report button, but well that's sometimes like fighting with Windmills.

Btw. Hope you doing fine 😊