Way to calculate Jira performance improvement after Cleanup

Rupa Jain

As part of our cleanup activity, we will be deleting a large number of Jira projects.

Is it possible to calculate any performance improvement after deleting projects?

Or any number indicating any sort of improvement due to the cleanup?

We are using Jira v6.4 Server instance.

Ignacio Pulgar

Hi Rupa,

I don't think there's a way to predict the exact performance improvement, as there are too many factors which might affect it (hardware, concurrence...).

But the number of issues as well as the number of custom fields are known to affect performance, so do not forget to also delete any custom fields that do not contain any values after the deletion.

While knowing the improvement in advance doesn't seem to have a mathematical formula for its calculation, you can measure the time it currently takes to perform a poor-performing operation, and compare it with the time it takes after the cleanup.

Register that time both at business hours and out of office hours too.

Hope it helps.