How many projects do we have?

[Jeff Lapsley]

I have been asked to report on the number of projects we have in Jira.

I searched for this topic, and the only directions were to SYSTEM INFO, which does not look like my Cloud Jira panel.

In Jira Cloud, I just want to know how many projects exist. How? There does not seem to be a way to report on this, which is... odd.

[Daniel Ebers · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff,

yes, it seems that there is no nice overview is existing currently.

You could query via REST API (also in your browser a quite good overview is returned) like:

https://YourGreatSiteName.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/search

In my example it gives me a total of 12 projects, which is correct (please note that the number can show wrong results if the requesting user is restricted for one or more projects):

More information about the endpoint is here:
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-projects/#api-rest-api-3-project-post

In case you don't want to do that I'd copy out the list of projects and insert it in a spreadsheet and count lines - all in all not the greatest solution but the nearest you can get.

Cheers,
Daniel

[Jeff Lapsley]

Thank you for your reply. I think that got me the answer using REST, though I did the cheapo browser window read rather than a REST client. 

"total":187,"

 Thanks!

[John S. De Stefano Jr]

This still works, but according to the docs, this method is deprecated, and I don't see a recommended replacement?

[Daniel Ebers]

I would not worry too much about the deprecation label. In case it will be removed there will be likely a endpoint which will act as an successor. To date it would not be known to me the endpoint goes away by short notice.

[Anusha Rutnam · Accepted solution]

This is a bit of a workaround but you can also go to https://<your site name>.atlassian.net/jira/settings/system/migration/home and find the number of projects there: 

[Luis Felipe Studzinski Santos]

The previous solution works fine but this tip is awesome. Thank you for sharing.