How can we identify inactive JIRA Agile Boards

[SunilP]

I need to identify all unused/inactive JIRA Agile boards as sometimes Manage Boards page is taking more than 30 seconds and leading to timeout.

I would like to remove all unused boards instead of changing timeout value.

Any better suggestions are always appreciated.....

[DTS Infra Admin]

One of the good housekeeping activity that we have learnt is to identify the inactive users (not logged-in since xyz date) and to cleanout all boards they would have created. you would however, need to identify if the board was shared and is currently in use. I am sure you would find many boards which were created but aren't in use. 

• identify those users
• identify boards created by them (not shared)
• remove those boards

[Rahul Aich [Nagra]]

If you have scrum boards then you can go in and check the sprint dates for the current/last sprint. If a project is inactive then it is highly likely that sprints have not been planned in the recent few months.

If it is a kanban board, then you may want to run the created/resolved chart for the filter/project in that kanban board and see. Again, if the project is inactive then not many new issues would had been created inrecent past.

This is a very subjective issue as the definition of inactive can vary from 3 months to 3 years. So, it is unlikely that you may get an automated solution to identify this . This process is best investigated manually one byone.

Rahul

[Sandeep Thukral]

I like this solution. I started cleaning up my company's Jira Board mess using your suggestions.

[Sasha Robenek]

Hi,

this is not a valid solution. As issues can appear in mutliple boards according to their used components, labels etc. this cannot to validate wether a board is in use or not.

Best regards,

Sasha

[Michał Siwecki]

I'm also waiting for some info. Can someone from Atlassian provide answer to this question?