4 Gadgets to track team activity in Jira Data Center

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If you want to know how your project progresses, tracking user activity is the key. It’s not just about seeing what’s been done; it’s about understanding what is changing, where potential bottlenecks lie, and how your team collaborates. Whether you want to see who’s resolving the most issues, track time spent on tasks, or review overall engagement, Jira offers a variety of tools to help you. In this article, we’ll explore dashboard gadgets available for Jira Data Center (DC) users to give you a clear picture of your team’s efforts.

Issue Statistics

The Issue Statistics Gadget in Jira Data Center provides a visual summary of issue data based on specific field values, helping you track and analyze various aspects of your project or team’s progress. It groups issues by fields like assignee, priority, status, or custom fields. The gadget is useful for seeing how issues are distributed and spotting patterns in your workflow. It also helps you understand where work is focused.

For our case, let’s see how issues are distributed per assignees. The screenshot below shows the number of issues assigned to each person and the percentage of the total count.

How are the tasks distributed among team members?

Filter Results

The Filter Results Gadget in Jira Data Center allows you to display a list of issues that match a specific filter, providing a customizable view of your project's data. The gadget lets you select which columns to show, like issue key, summary, priority, or any other custom field you've set up. 

How can it help to track user activity? You can create a filter for issues updated in your project during the last week and use it to check specific fields with this gadget.

Project = “Your project” AND updated >= -1w

Now, you can select what fields you want to include and get an answer to the question: 

What issues were updated during the week?

Activity Stream

The Activity Stream Gadget in Jira Data Center provides a real-time feed of updates and activities from your projects. It shows recent actions like issue updates, comments, status changes, and new issues created. You can filter the stream by project, user, or activity type to focus on what's important. The gadget keeps you informed of project progress and team activity at a glance. It's useful for staying up to date without needing to dive into each individual issue.

This gadget is the most helpful if you want to know: 

What was updated, when, and by which user?

Activities by Issue History

The Activities Gadget from Issue History for Jira offers more detailed and customizable insights regarding user activity. Here, you can see red and green highlighted changes for all issue fields and additional filters, for example, updates made by particular user/users. 

This gadget can help to answer questions like:

What was updated, when, and by which user?

What updates were made to the specific field? Example with due dates:

Key differences:

• Granular tracking: It highlights detailed changes to individual fields.

• Custom filtering: Lets you filter by projects, users, or days for precise monitoring.

• Field selection: There is a special filter to select one or several fields (activities) you are interested in.

Try to create your gadget

This level of depth and customization makes the Activities Gadget ideal for detailed audits and identifying patterns in user activity.

Each gadget serves a unique purpose, from tracking progress and workloads to auditing detailed activities, giving teams the tools they need to stay organized and efficient. Depending on your needs, you may try one or all of them. Which gadget will you use to track your team’s activity? Do you prefer a high-level overview, or do you need detailed insights into every change?