What does admin mean in Jira?

[Cansu Korkut]

Hi, I am new to Jira and I got confused about administrative permissions. What does an admin exactly mean? Does it mean my project manager or someone works with Atlassian or etc.?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

There are four levels of administrators in Jira

1. System admins - can change every aspect of the installation.  Only Atlassian have this right on Cloud systems, customers will never get this.
2. Site Admins - only exist for Cloud sites, and they administrate the whole site, not just Jira.  They don't even have to be application admins - some just look after users and subscriptions, and never do any Jira/Confluence admin.
3. Jira Admins - have admin rights across the entirity of Jira, all the configuration of the application, but it is very application specific, no system stuff is maintanable by them.
4. Project administrators have admin rights over a project, granted by the permission scheme for the project (which higher level admins have to define and apply to company-managed projects), or by being the owner/admin of a team-managed project.

[Cansu Korkut]

Hi, @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-, thank you for the explanations. :)

[Mark Segall · Accepted solution]

Hi @Cansu Korkut and welcome to the community!

In basic terms, there are three key admin levels:

• Site Admin - These are individuals with control over granting high level access to Atlassian products... they are responsible for YOURINSTANCE.atlassian.net
• Jira Admin - Individuals that can perform global configuration changes to Jira
• Project Admin - Individuals that have been granted rights to a specific project

[Cansu Korkut]

Hello, @Mark Segall thank you for the explanations. :)