If you’re experiencing problems with your Jira automation rules, you can start by investigating the issue yourself. Below you’ll find diagnostic tools to help you troubleshoot and resolve the problem.

If you can’t resolve the issue yourself, prepare data about your automation rules so it’s easier for Atlassian Support to find and solve your problem.

Investigate the issues yourself

Use the following tools to understand and self-diagnose issues with Jira automation.

View the audit log to check how your rules execute

Your Jira automation audit log is a history of all the executed rules. As the first step in the diagnostic process, check your rules' statuses for potential errors:

• Successful: all actions within this execution were performed and ended in a success

• No actions: the rule executed but no actions were performed

• Some errors: the rule resulted in an error

• Loop: the rule execution resulted in an execution loop

• Throttled: the rule breached a service limit

To further inspect a rule, view more details by selecting Show more next to a rule from the Operations column in the audit log. Learn more about using the audit log

Expire audit log items to improve performance

If you’re experiencing problems with the performance of your Jira database, look into the expiry configuration of your Jira automation audit log. Audit log items build up over time, clogging your disk space and causing Jira to slow down. Learn how to expire audit log items

Enable logging to collect better troubleshooting information

You can enable extra logging for Jira automation to collect more information about your issue. You can do it by adding specific packages to the Jira logging and profiling settings. Learn how to enable logging for automation

Look into performance insights for automation rules

Performance insights provide an overall view of how your rules are performing and how long they take to execute. You can view execution count and status on a graph, and see more details for each of the top rules in a list below it. Learn more about viewing performance insights

Understand service limits and improve your rules so they don’t breach them

Service limits control how automation rules are processed, how often they can run, for how long, and how many items they can add to your automation queue. Understanding these limits will help you improve your rules so they don’t breach them. You can also change the limits. Default limits should work for most instances though so we recommend that you change them only if you need to. Learn more about automation service limits

Use queries to check your rule statistics

Queries are a great tool to make sure your rules are well-optimized. You can use pre-prepared queries to search your rule database for statistics that will help you improve the performance. Learn how to use queries to examine rules

Resolve issues with Atlassian support

If these tools didn’t help you resolve your issue, reach out to Atlassian support for help. We’ve compiled a list of items you should prepare beforehand to make it easier and faster for our team to help you. For more information, see Prepare data for Atlassian Support.