đź‘‹ Hey admins,
This is Betty from the Enterprise product marketing team. Welcome back to the Admin Digest, your bi-monthly roundup of what’s new and upcoming in Atlassian Administration.
This month is all about resilience and control across your cloud footprint. We’re diving into enhanced performance monitoring for business continuity, expanded shadow IT controls to help you stay ahead of rogue instances, and a preview of the top admin tracks lined up for Team ’26 Europe.
Let's dive in!
Resilient business continuity
Currently in open beta, Performance Insights gives Cloud Enterprise admins self-service tools and dashboards to monitor, diagnose, and optimize performance for Jira and Confluence. Instead of opening a support ticket, Performance Insights lets you view performance data and diagnose issues within Jira and Confluence. You can now:
- Monitor app performance and speed with dashboards that show end-user load times.
- Discover optimization opportunities with insights that reveal where performance gains await.
- Optimize performance with self-service tools to fine-tune configurations and clean up or archive data.
As part of the open beta, we’re introducing Rovo-powered diagnostics for Jira to help track performance trends, identify the causes of slowdowns, and take optimization actions. This helps you accelerate troubleshooting and removing blockers for your teams.
What’s coming next: We’re excited to share that we’re already rolling out the Performance Insights open beta to Cloud Enterprise customers. All enterprise customers will have access in the next few weeks, and no action is required to enroll.
Learn more: Performance Insights open beta
Proactive visibility and detection
New shadow IT controls for Jira Product Discovery Enterprise and Loom Enterprise
Shadow IT occurs when managed accounts sign up for new apps without approval, which can lead to security blind spots and unexpected costs. Shadow IT controls put you ahead of that risk by allowing you to choose whether managed accounts can create new apps or must first submit a request for admin review, helping you strengthen your security posture and avoid unmanaged apps.
Today, Shadow IT controls are already available on the Enterprise plan for Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket Premium.
What’s coming next: We’re excited to share that Shadow IT controls will soon be available for Jira Product Discovery Enterprise and Loom Enterprise. This gives admins more coverage across the tools teams use every day, so you can keep new app creation aligned with your organization’s policies and needs. We’re currently rolling out the capability, and all Jira Product Discovery Enterprise and Loom Enterprise customers will see it in Atlassian Administration in the next few weeks.
How to manage and view shadow IT controls:
- Go to
https://admin.atlassian.com
and select your organization.
- Select Apps, then Shadow IT, then Shadow IT controls.
- Select Manage settings.
- Choose the setting you want for each supported app. Select Require admin review if you want to receive app requests for newly created apps. Otherwise, choose Allow new apps.
Watch this video to learn how to manage and view your shadow IT controls.
Learn more: Control your shadow IT footprint
Change Management community series
Effective change management is key to preventing disruptions and keeping your teams productive, and that is why we’re introducing a dedicated Change Management series to support you every step of the way.
Join us in the Jira Cloud Admin community as we kick off a dedicated Change Management series. Tune in over the coming weeks as we share tips, tricks, and best practices for managing changes to your production environments. We’ll also have swag giveaways with every post, so be sure to enter for your chance to win!
Learn more: Change Management Series
Admin sessions at TEAM EU that you don’t want to miss
Team ’26 Europe is right around the corner, and we’re excited to meet our Community champions in Amsterdam from October 6th to the 8th! Check out the session schedule to plan your agenda.
We’re especially excited to bring you a set of sessions covering admin-focused topics from practical ways to scale administration, moving to the cloud with confidence, supporting compliance needs, and understanding what’s new across the Atlassian Platform.
Here are our personal favorites to add to your list:
- Smarter administration to scale your organizational impact
Following high demand, we’re bringing this popular admin-focused session back! Join two of our senior product leaders as they walk through the latest administration capabilities to help you manage a growing organization, optimize costs and resource consumption as your organization scales AI, and govern complex policies across your platform with confidence. If you want to hear what’s new and what’s next for Atlassian admins, this is one you won’t want to miss. - Enterprise-grade, context-aware: What’s new across the Atlassian Platform
In this in-theater demo, we’ll dive into the latest Atlassian Platform capabilities and apps that help organizations bring structure to complexity, improve visibility, and make more informed decisions. Follow along as product experts go through practical examples and live demonstrations on new enterprise-grade capabilities and platform apps that enable you to confidently scale your system of work and make smarter decisions with rich business data and context. - Motorola Solutions accelerates comprehensive cloud upgrade with FastShift
If you’re looking for practical guides and real customer experience for cloud migration and upgrades, this session is for you. Hear directly from the staff engineer at Motorola Solutions about their journey partnering with the Atlassian FastShift program and how it brought their most critical customizations to the cloud, and realized the cloud value faster. - Compliance without compromise: Adopting cloud for EU enterprises
Are you helping your organization navigate complex EU compliance requirements or planning your organization’s move to the cloud? Join our senior product team for an inside look at how Atlassian Cloud maps directly against EU frameworks like DORA, NIS2, BSI C5, and more. You’ll walk away with actionable next steps to meet your privacy and compliance requirements in the cloud and a clearer path for migrating to the cloud.
That’s a wrap for the September Administration Digest. We hope you enjoyed this update! Drop a comment below if you have questions, feedback, or suggestions for what you’d like us to cover next.
