Find out JIRA API usage

Taylor Huston_f18ziu

Hello all,

I need a way to track who (JIRA username?) is using the REST API to access JIRA, and by what method (token vs OAuth, etc). What is the best way to get this information?

Also, what kinds of potential information in an instance can be gathered through the REST API without authentication?

Thank You!

Andy Heinzer

You could enable the HTTP Access logging in Jira.  This would however start logging all HTTP access requests.  Depending on how active your Jira site is, this file could grow very large, very fast.  So I would recommend watching this file for excessive growth if your Jira is publicly accessible, and/or has a lot of users. I believe this would also then be able to collect REST API calls made to the site.

In turn you might be able to use a utility like the Jira Access Log analyzer to help summarize that data.