Jira gadgets and dashboards comparison

[Eran Roiter]

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for advice on Jira gadgets to use for comparing two filters:

• Bugs from Q4 this year
• Bugs from Q4 last year

Could you recommend the most suitable gadgets for this type of comparison?

Thank you in advance for your suggestions!
Have a great day.

[Shiva Kumar Hiremath]

Hello Eran,

you can use Two dimensional filter statistics gadget.This gadget allows you to compare two filters side by side. You can set one axis to represent the time period (Q4 this year vs. Q4 last year) and the other axis to represent the bug count or other relevant metrics.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Eran Roiter 

How do you want to compare the issues from the two filter results?  What questions do you want to answer?

For built-in dashboard gadgets...

If you want to inspect the details of the issues, and their fields, try the Filter Results or Two-dimensional Filter Statistics gadgets.

If you want to see trends over time, try the Created vs. Resolved Chart or Average Time in Status ones.

Next, discuss this need with your Jira Site Admin as your company may already be using marketplace addons to dashboards to help.

There are both paid and free gadgets to add for such comparison reporting.  An example free one from Atlassian is the JavaScript Chart for Jira Cloud.  It has multiple chart types for displaying multiple filters as chart series, and please note it can be a bit difficult to use.

Kind regards,
Bill

[David Nickell]

The REST API (or maybe even just the issue navigator) could be your friend here.   

Step 1.  Create a filter (or JQL) for Q4 2023.

Step 2. Create a filter (or JQL) for Q4 2024.  

Step 3. Export the issues either with the Issue Navigator (if not too many) or using the REST API call : yoursite/rest/api/3/search?jql=filter=10000.   You can test it in a browser since it is a GET call.   

Example :  https://splitdimedata.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/search?jql=filter=10003

If you are still reading ... all you have left to deal with is Pagination and an API key. 

But the APIS are free --- no plugins needed.

You can put this in Power BI, Excel, or probably many other JSON capable tools.  Atlassian provides the Postman libraries right there on the API Documentation Page.

[Bibek Behera]

@Eran Roiter ,

I can think of having two of "two dimensional filter" side by side. Other than that I have hardly come across any use case that can compare real-time data based on the part history of the issues.

Please note that you will be able to get a good view based on all the fields other than status as those are always updated.

-Bibek