Number of custom fields added in Jira can impact the performance?

[Swathi]

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[Sagar Mahajan · Accepted solution]

Hi @Swathi 

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

Yes, the more custom fields you have in your Jira instance can lead to a performance issues as custom fields can have multiple field context and are used in many issues and that could lead to a performance issues when you run a complex JQL search or loading a dashboards gadgets data from JQL query.

Please check the below document for how to effectively manage the custom fields in Jira

https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/managing-custom-fields-in-jira-effectively-945523781.html