traffic light or visual alert on dashboards

Question

Is there an option to generate some kind of traffic light or visual alert on dashboards? For example, if tickets arrive in the backlog of my Kanban board?

One idea would be to have the menu itself display a notification or highlight whenever new tickets arrive in the backlog, without the need to open it.

Luka Hummel - codefortynine · Answer

Hi @Elia Kouruklis and welcome to the community!

You won’t get a blinking menu badge in Jira dashboards, but you can build a clear “traffic-light” style alert directly on the dashboard with our app Quick Filters for Jira Dashboards.

* Add the Quick Controller gadget and set a filter for Status = Backlog (or use a JQL like project = ABC AND status = Backlog). Put it in Group 1.
* Add the Quick Filter Counts gadget to the same Group 1.
* Configure multiple “conditions” (each is just a JQL you define) and give each condition an icon so it reads like a traffic light:* 🔴 New backlog items (last 15m)
status = Backlog AND created >= -15m
* 🟡 New backlog items (last 24h)
status = Backlog AND created >= -24h
* 🟢 No new backlog items today
status = Backlog AND created >= startOfDay() (shows 0 when quiet)

The gadget shows the live counts next to the icons, giving you an immediate visual cue.

* In the gadget settings, set Auto refresh to Every minute (or every 5 minutes) so the “light” stays current without opening boards.

This set up is just a suggestion. Quick Filter Counts lets you define multiple conditions in a single gadget and display each with its own icon, so you can emulate a red/amber/green status at a glance.

Danut M _StonikByte_ · Answer

Hi @Elia Kouruklis,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I'm afraid Jira doesn't have anything like that. A possible solution would be to search for an app on Atlassian Marketplace.

In case you want to try an app, you could get some kind of traffic lights by using the Issue Filter Formula gadget offered by our Great Gadgets app. This gadget can calculate a number, such as the count of issues in a JQL/filter, and display the result as a colored number based on its value.

You could configure it to calculate the count of new issues created in last hour for example, and display green-color if no issues or red-color if there are any issues.  So it will change from green to red depending on the issue count.

To achieve this, the gadget should be configured like this:

Hope this helps.

Danut.

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Hi @Elia Kouruklis,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

As far as I am aware the traffic light apps in the Marketplace adds a custom field on the work item so you can use that to report on their status, the quick search I did didn't result in a gadget. What you could do is using the Activity stream gadget and a filter that limit it to only show lets say work items created within 15 minutes. You can then set the gadget to refresh every 15 minutes.