The Atlassian release of Jira 8 advertises, among other things, a significant improvement in performance. In CoreIT s.r.o. we did not let trust to him so much and we checked it out ourselves. We created two identical instances - version 7.13 and version 8.0 - and tested several performance factors that showed the improvement is indeed noticeable. Proof can be seen in the picture below.

What is your experience after upgrade to new Jira 8? Did you experience something similar?