What does admin mean in Jira?

Question

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.?

Mark Segall · Accepted Answer

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

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted Answer

There are four levels of administrators in Jira

* System admins - can change every aspect of the installation.  Only Atlassian have this right on Cloud systems, customers will never get this.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.