Find issues with deleted comments

[Paul Krueger]

I'm trying to figure out if there's a jql query or something exposed in the API that would allow me to find issues where a comment was deleted. I'm not worried about recovering the content of the comment, I just want to know that a comment was deleted. 

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Paul Krueger 

Once a thing is deleted from jira/confluence/etc, if there isn't any "trash" functionality available, then it's gone.

[Paul Krueger]

Yes, I know that, and I probably haven't properly explained what I'm after. Let's say I commented on an issue and then deleted the comment. In the issue history there will be a line that says "Paul Krueger deleted a Comment". I want to find all issues where Paul Krueger deleted a comment. 

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Paul Krueger thanx for the clarification! Maybe I have misunderstood it. Have you try using the changelog? 

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issues/#api-rest-api-3-issue-issueidorkey-changelog-get

[Paul Krueger]

I have. Interestingly enough, when looking at the change log I can see the contents of the deleted comment, but not that the comment was deleted. 

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

I see that the string become null

"items": [{"field": "Comment","fieldtype": "jira","fieldId": "comment","from": null,"fromString": "another comment","to": null,"toString": null}]