How to Create Flexible and Custom Reports, Charts and Graphs in Jira

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This article is about custom reporting in Jira and how various and flexible reports you can create with Reports - Charts and Graphs for Jira app developed by our team, Bloompeak.

Reporting is essential for a business in many aspects. It can be used for measuring performance and overall health, identifying bottlenecks and improvement areas, defining competitive and growth strategy, determining future plans and so on. Having the data at hand, reporting tool is what needed to utilize the data and get these meaningful results and insights from it.

Today, there are many reporting tools(or tools with reporting features) that meet different needs in the market. Jira Software is one of these tools that has powerful reporting features. It provides various agile reports, dashboards and more. Companies can use these built-in reporting features to fulfill their reporting needs. However, some companies may also need to create custom reports within Jira. They may want to generate reports based on the parameters they choose and create table views, charts or graphs to better visualize the results.

For custom reporting in Jira, an alternative is to use Reports - Charts and Graphs for Jira app developed by our team, Bloompeak. It helps you generate simple yet robust and flexible custom reports that summarize and visualize the data you want as detailed below:

Custom, Flexible, Colorful Charts and Table Views

You can create custom, flexible and colorful bar charts and table views for any data you need and add these reports to your Jira dashboards. Whenever you open your dashboards, your reports will welcome you with up-to-date data.

Configurable X Axis, Y Axis(Number, Sum, Average)

You are the creator of the reports and you have all the control over your reports. You just imagine and decide what to see as output and choose the parameters and set the fields accordingly. The rest is done by the app.

You can set X axis to be any parameter like Created(month), Assignee, Sprint, Fix Versions etc.

You can set Y axis to be any parameter like Number of Issues, Sum of Remaining Estimates, Average of Story Points etc.

The app provides user friendly, easily understandable and colorful views.

Grouping on Different Fields

You may need to create complicated reports as well as the simple ones and grouping data may be what you need to get the ultimate result. This app enables you group your data on any field(Sprint, Status, Assignee, Component, Project etc.) you want.

Various Date Ranging

You can setup date ranges for your reports and generate reports for date ranges like All Time, Last Year, Last 3 Months, Last 6 Months etc.

Easy Ordering

You may need to order the segments of your report and you can do it easily by drag and drop.

Sample Reports

Here are some sample reports that you can create with Reports - Charts and Graphs for Jira app.

We hope you find this article helpful.