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How do I get an Epic drill down like shown in the image

Radhika Vijji

I would like to get a better drill down of Epic. I see this option only in Plans, or on reports under each board.

However I want the drill down across boards. I tried marketplace apps like Quick Filters, Rich Filters, Dashboard Hub and many others. Each of them lacks it. Dashboard hub gives the progress but doesn't have the controller feature. Can someone suggest how can I have a dashboard for executive reporting to show the quaterly commitment, status of the epics committed, story level reporting, sprint level reporting. Screenshot 2026-08-04 222044.png

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Thanasis Nikolaou

Hey @Radhika Vijji

The blunt version first: native Jira dashboards have no cross-gadget controller, and no app fully recreates what Plans does inside a dashboard. So the choice is really "which compromise".

Rich Filters is still the closest to a controller — a rich filter controller gadget with a dynamic filter on the Parent field gives one-click epic filtering across every gadget on the dashboard. If it "lacked it" when you tried, check whether the dynamic filter was added on Parent; that step is easy to miss and without it there's nothing to drill by.
If you're on Cloud Enterprise, Atlassian Analytics has genuine dashboard controls and drill-down — but it's Enterprise-only, not Premium.
eazyBI is the heavyweight option: epic → story → sprint drill-down and quarterly commitment tracking are exactly its territory, at the cost of a real learning curve.

Although eazyBI is the most heavyweight option, it would definitely work for what you are trying to achieve. I have done that in the past. If you haven't used it before, it might be a bit overwhelming (as with any other BI tool) because of its power.

James Gamble

Hola Radhika,

The image you shared is from Plans, and that type of hierarchy-aware progress view is one of the planning features Atlassian reserves for Jira Cloud Premium and Enterprise. Plans can combine work from multiple boards or spaces and roll progress up through the epic hierarchy, but they can’t be embedded as an interactive native Jira dashboard gadget.

Since the question shows Jira Cloud Free, there isn’t a native dashboard that’ll provide the same cross-board epic > story > sprint drill-down. Standard dashboard gadgets can report from cross-space saved filters, but each gadget operates independently and won’t behave like the controller shown in your screenshot.

The Rich Filters approach mentioned earlier is probably the closest dashboard-style option if you need a selector that updates multiple gadgets. eazyBI is better suited when the main requirement is executive reporting across quarterly commitments, epic status, child work, and sprints, but it’ll require building and maintaining the reporting model.

Before choosing between them, I’d clarify whether the priority is an interactive dashboard where executives select an epic, or a portfolio report showing all committed epics and their progress at once. Those are different reporting patterns, and the best app depends on which experience matters most.

Thanks,

James

Danut M _StonikByte_

Hi @Radhika Vijji,

Jira does not provide such gadget. Have you also tried our Great Gadgets app?

It offer many gadgets that can be helpful for creating executive dashboards.

For this specific case, I would recommend using its Pivot Table & Pivot Chart gadget configured to display epic progress as a table, or as a bar chart.

And yes, our app has a gadget controller.

For how to configure it and how to create effective executive dashboards in Jira, see these articles:

If you need any help with our gadgets, feel free to contact our team at support@stonikbyte.com.

Danut.

Radhika Vijji

Thanks @Danut M _StonikByte_ . I will try that and let you know.

Radhika Vijji

We are on Premium. We see this view on individual boards and Plans.

What I want is to have an interactive board, where each of my solution area folks can come to the board, look at their solution area, and see the progress on the committed epics. This is the start.

Some apps provide the progress very well, but do not have the control.

Some do have the control but do not have all gadgets. Eg: Burn down.

Radhika Vijji

@Danut M _StonikByte_ On hover does it show the count of the child items?

Habib__Plugio__

Hi @Radhika Vijji ,

Full disclosure: I'm the developer of a marketplace app that covers this, but let me start with the native answer since it's genuinely relevant.

Native options: What you're describing (the progress panel with drill-down) lives in Plans, which needs Jira Premium — and even there it stays inside the Plans view rather than a shareable dashboard. On Standard there's no native gadget for epic progress, and the Epic Report / Burndown are single-project. That gap is exactly what you ran into with the apps you tried.

How we approach it in Plugio Suite – Dashboard Builder, Charts & Reports for Jira: you build one dashboard whose scope spans any set of projects/boards (or any JQL), and compose it from widgets that all read that shared scope:

Work item progress — the view in your screenshot: one row per epic with a stacked Done / In Progress / To Do bar and % complete, cross-project. Clicking a row expands it to the story-level list underneath (key, summary, status), and every key links back to the issue — the drill-down/controller part that was missing in the apps you listed. You can also switch the rows to any level or field (e.g. progress by assignee), and choose whether the bars count issues or sum story points.
Quarterly commitment — set the dashboard's date window to the quarter (or filter to the committed epics with the built-in Epic filter) and add KPI number widgets for totals/%done next to the progress list.
Sprint-level reporting — a dashboard can alternatively be bound to a board's active sprint (it rolls over automatically each sprint), so the same widgets report on the current sprint.
Exact numbers — a pivot table with epics as rows × status categories as columns, for the people who want the figures, not the bars.

All of it lives on a normal shareable dashboard page, so it works as the single executive view you described.

If you're on Premium and Plans' view is enough, that's the zero-cost path — but if you need it as a cross-board dashboard, give the suite a try and I'm happy to help you set up this exact layout.

Danut M _StonikByte_

Hi @Radhika Vijji,

On hover the chart displays the actual values (percentages, in that example).

You could eventually complement this chart with a table that shows the number of child items (or maybe the sum of story points of those child items).

Or, configure the the chart to display count instead of percentages.

Danut.

Laura Marin - Millarum

Hello @Radhika Vijji as others mentioned Jira doesn't offer this natively but there are plenty of 3rd party solutions that can get you the view you want.

As you mentioned you tried Quick Filters and Rich Filters, I know you like the dynamic reconfiguration of the dashboard, so if you're willing to try another option.

Millarum Dashboards is an alternative to the mentioned tools that offer some unique features, for your specific need, you can configure a Stacked bar chart to group by Parent and sub-group by status on a Percentage representation, then you'll get the specific view you're looking for.

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One advantage on our tool is that we're offering a cost efficient solution compared to other alternatives while still keeping the core functions.

Radhika Vijji

Thanks @Laura Marin - Millarum I will try this and get back to you.

I think when I said drill down, people didn't understand it.

What I meant was a drill-down within the dashboard. Most apps direct me to the issue search with a pre-filled query. Now that use experience doesn't fit well with my audience.

Does Millarum do the same?

Radhika Vijji

@Habib__Plugio__ I will try this and get back to you.

Radhika Vijji

@Laura Marin - Millarum - Didn't help. Your slicer is limited. I need a more dynamic way of building the slicers like Rich filters.

Infact the Space under slicer did not pull up the space I was looking for. Most spaces I could not find. Not sure what is the reason. Do you pull only team-managed projects?

Laura Marin - Millarum

Hi @Radhika Vijji our dashboard widget pull all spaces, team managed or company managed, it only makes queries as user so the user needs to have access to the spaces.

Our team is happy to join in a call to troubleshoot and also to work on a solution to your needs, do you mind creating a support ticket so we can get in touch directly?

Mary from Planyway

Hi @Radhika Vijji

Have you tried Planyway?

table view (5).png

Planyway's Table view lets you browse work items in a structured hierarchy (from Epics down to subtasks) instead of a flat issue list. Since it can display work from multiple Jira projects, it's easier to review initiative progress without jumping between individual boards.

Combined with Timeline and other views, it helps you move from a high-level status view to the actual delivery details — so you can see not only whether an Epic is on track, but also what work is behind it and what needs attention.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions — happy to help.

Best,
Mary.

Alexey Pavlenko _App Developer_

Hi @Radhika Vijji,

You can use Multi-team Scrum Metrics & Retrospectives for that.

Quarterly commitment:

Choose Period = Quarter, and you will get the view like this with the drill-downs into the lower periods (months and sprints):

...

Story level reporting, sprint level reporting:

Just change the Period to Sprints and you will get the view like this:

3 boards/teams in the same view, 1 period selected for analysis:

3 boards/teams in the same view, all periods are clicked for average metrics and dynamics:

As for the status of the epics committed, can you please elaborate on how you determine whether an epic is committed vs completed? There are many ways this can be organized, just 2 of them:

By fixVersion? If so, the original fixVersion always stay there even when you move the epic to the next version?
By Due/end date? If so, the original due/end date always stay there even when you change the due/end date for the epic?

Do I understand correctly that you expect the view where you will get:

---------------------------------------
<Predefined filters for epics based on tasks inside it> Active Sprint, fixVersion/s, Completed date - Q1, Completed date - Q2, Completed date - Q3, Completed date - Q4, Completed date - January, Completed date - February, etc

<Plus the ability to add custom filters in this list>
---------------------------------------

Epic <progress bar with the information on hover>
- Team/Board #1
  - User Story #1
    - Sub-task 1
  - User Story #2
    - Sub-task 1
- Team/Board #2
  - User Story #1
    - Sub-task 2
  - User Story #3
    - Sub-task 1

Best regards,
Alexey | Developer of Multi-team Scrum Metrics & Retrospectives

Daria Spizheva_Reliex_

Hi @Radhika Vijji !

Since native Jira only gives you this kind of epic drill-down inside Plans or per-board reports, a marketplace app that works across the whole instance is indeed the way to go — and ActivityTimeline can cover most of what you're describing:

project progress report good shot.png

Epic drill-down across boards/projects — the Project Progress Report shows progress by Jira project, epic, initiative, or any Jira filter, organized as a hierarchical tree from Epic down to stories and sub-tasks. Since you can report by a saved Jira filter, you're not limited to a single board — you can pull in the exact set of epics committed for the quarter (e.g., via a label, fix version, or custom field in JQL) regardless of which boards they live on.
Flexible progress calculation — progress can be calculated either by number of completed child issues or by estimated vs. logged time, and parent status rolls up automatically from children. You can show/hide done or child issues while keeping them in the calculation, and add fields like Assignee, Status, Due Date, Remaining Estimate, and Time Spent.
Executive-level status tracking — the Planned vs Actual Report compares planned vs. actual time at the epic, project, or custom-field level with On Track / Underestimated / Overestimated color statuses — handy for showing whether quarterly commitments are healthy, not just their percent complete.
Story- and sprint-level reporting — timesheets and reports can be grouped by Epic, issue, sprint (via Jira custom fields), fix version, component, and more, so you can drill from initiative level down to individual stories.
Saved dashboards for execs — once configured, reports can be saved as reusable dashboards, so leadership always opens the same up-to-date quarterly view without reconfiguring anything.

So the combination of "report by Jira filter" + hierarchical Project Progress Report is essentially the cross-board epic drill-down you're looking for, and the saved report configurations give you the repeatable executive dashboard on top. Feel free to reach out to our support team if you'd like help setting up a quarterly commitment view for your case.

Habib__Plugio__

Hi @Radhika Vijji

Did you get a chance to try Plugio Suite for this? Would love to hear how it went, and whether anything was missing for your report.

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