JIra system slowness?

Question

Hi All,
I've recently seen some slowness in my Jira Cloud system and have had one team mention the same observation. Could this slowness be the result of a bloated system?

I recently removed 500+ inactive workflows from our system and will be undertaking a thorough review of all other objects within the system.

Our current system is the result of two systems being integrated which resulted in duplicate statuses, custom fields and other objects.

We currently have 159 archived projects in the system.  These archived projects hold references to other objects such as custom fields, issue types, etc.

I've already proposed establishing a timetable for deleting archived projects from the system and will be working to establish a better maintenance routine for the system as a whole.

I'm wondering whether the slowness is because of excessive junk in the system.

JM Perrot · Accepted Answer

Hello @Richard A_ Michaels

One of my customers sent me the same experience, their instance is not very large and very well managed so I don't think it's due to a dusty instance but maybe just the connection between the Atlassian DC and you...

I'm curious to know whether this problem persists over time.

Matt Doar _Adaptavist_ · Accepted Answer

It's worth checking the number and type of apps you have installed as well, and whether some of them can be disabled

John Funk · Accepted Answer

Hi Richard - How many custom fields do you have? And do all of them have a context (or the vast majority of them) with at least one Project and/or Issue Type? Meaning the majority are not all Global custom fields.