What's the best way to log user activity in JIRA?

[Jonathan Schwehm]

I'm evaluating JIRA core 8.0.2, and a requirement I have is to be able to report on all activity (including simply viewing) surrounding an issue. The goal is to log when a user views an issue, downloads attachment and uploads attachment.

I've enabled the httpaccesslog in the log4j.properties file, and I see multiple entries that  reference an issue. Is there a tool to analyze this log so I can create a summary of issues accessed by a particular user by date?  Or is there a plugin that I can install that does a better job?

Thank you,

Jonathan

[Kurt Klinner · Accepted solution]

@Jonathan Schwehm 

Hi Jonathan

one approach would be the jira log analyzer

https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/jira-http-requests-log-analyzer-461504620.html

another is to forward the access log data to ELK (did set up a docker image as a starting point to give you an idea, see https://bitbucket.org/kurtklinner/tam-elk/src/master/). Other tools like splunk offer also features that would cover that need

Cheers

Kurt