Why is my Sprint Burndown report/gadget showing strange time logging lines?

Jason_v13oqr

I am in the middle of 4-week sprint that is also tracking time on its issues.  I have my scrum board set to time tracking.  When I look at the sprint burndown or sprint burndown gadget, I see the time tracking lines but they are extended to the end of the sprint time frame.  Why are those lines extended?  I am expecting those red and green lines to end on the current day.

Andy Heinzer

I could understand the desire to not have it draw a straight line across the chart for future dates, but the way this chart works, it's not only used for the current sprint. You can also view burndown data for past/completed sprints.   When this chart is loaded, Jira is running a series of SQL queries against your database in order to populate the values on this chart.  

In your case, the values for time spent and remaining values still get plotted for these future dates.  But all the other times this chart/report is run against completed sprints, this wouldn't be an issue.

I think that this plotting of future dates is by design.  Since the guideline will also extend to the end of the sprint, in my mind it makes more sense to have these other values extend to the end of the sprint as well, even if we don't yet have values for these.

Of course, I'd welcome differing opinions on this if you have any.  Could you tell me more about your use case?  Why does extending these lines cause a problem here?

There is also more about this report and how it works in Burndown Chart - Atlassian Documentation.