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What the Jira audit log does and doesn't tell you about configuration changes
Every Jira admin eventually gets the same email. An auditor, a new CISO, or a manager after an outage asks some version of: "Who changed this permission scheme, when, and what did it look like before?" The Jira audit log is the right place to start. It is also, in my experience, the place where most people stop — either…
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Does your audit log show before/after values for a permission scheme change?
Atlassian documents changedFrom / changedTo on audit records, but the only example in the docs is a user-management email change. I haven't been able to confirm from documentation whether those fields populate for configuration events — a permission scheme edit, a workflow change, a custom field context change. If you're…
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Before you publish a workflow draft: what do you actually capture, and where does it go?
Ren Takahashi posted a good pre-change checklist here a couple of months ago, and one item on it has been rattling around in my head since: "plan a rollback strategy." https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Cloud-Admins-discussions/What-I-check-before-changing-a-Jira-workflow/m-p/3258024 The instinct is right, but a…
