Is it possible to tell if I am connected to an on-demand instance or a server instance using the JIRA API?

[Guy Matz]

Hi!  Using the REST API - or some other mechanism - Is it possible to tell if I am connected to a server instance or an on-demand instance?

[mlassau_atlassian]

AFAIK there is no reliable way to do this in REST.

Sounds like a good feature request 

The way I usually tell in the UI is by looking at the footer.
Server will have "Atlassian JIRA Project Management Software".
Cloud will have "Powered by Atlassian" 

[Guy Matz]

I did it!!  https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-60416

I found it very awkward to word that request . . .  are the two types of servers "onDemand" and "Server"?  "Server" is not very descriptive . . .  and now that I think of it, "onDemand" is now cloud.

Please feel free to update the ticket if you have any thoughts, or send them to me and I will update if you are not able to!  Thanks!!!

[mlassau_atlassian]

Thanks for raising that.

Yep - "Server" can be ambiguous, but Marketing obviously think it's a good name, so who am I to argue 

(Internally we often say "BTF" - Behind The Firewall - for On Premises installs but that's misleading too because our Cloud instances are all behind a firewall too)

I might change "Server type" to "Deployment type" in the issue.

[Guy Matz]

 

Backups and re-indexing - possibly others? -  work/behave differently between the two versions . . .  I would like to add some code to the jira python client to behave appropriately depending on the context.

Thanks!!

[Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_]

Why do you need to know the difference?

[Andrew Frayling]

You could call /rest/api/2/serverInfo and look at the version element. For on-demand the version is something like:

"version":"7.2.0-OD-05-022"

i.e. it has OD in it.

and for server it's just:

"version": "6.2.5"

Not sure if that's good enough? 

[mlassau_atlassian]

If you see "-OD-" in the version then it is definitely Cloud.
Unfortunately the reverse is not true.

Sometimes cloud will have (eg) version "7.2.0" (then two weeks later it will move to "7.3.0-OD-01-xxx")

Another heuristic is the domain name ... eg if it is on "*.atlassian.net" (or one of a few others) then it is Cloud.
But this too is unreliable because that list could expand or change in the long term.