Migrating from other issue trackers
When migrating from another issue tracking application to JIRA, you may wish to take your data with you. Depending on what issue tracker you are migrating from, we recommend using the relevant instructions to import data from your other issue tracker into JIRA.
Our website highlights some top reasons why people migrate from other issue trackers to JIRA.
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Built-in importers
The JIRA Importers plugin, which is bundled with JIRA, allows you to import data from the importers listed below.
- Importing data from CSV
- Importing data from Excel
- Importing data from Bitbucket
- Importing data from Github
- Importing Data from Asana
- Importing data from TFS or Visual Studio
- Importing data from Rally
- Importing data from VersionOne
- Importing data from YouTrack
- Importing data from Axosoft
- Importing data from Pivotal Tracker
- Importing data from Bugzilla
- Importing data from FogBugz On Demand
- Importing data from FogBugz for your Server
- Importing data from Trac
- Importing data from Redmine
- Importing data from BaseCamp
- Importing data from JSON
- Importing data from Mantis
CSV importer
If you are migrating from a system for which JIRA does not provide a built-in importer, you may be able to import your data into JIRA via CSV format instead. Your system must be able to export your data into a CSV (comma-separated value) file. You can then import the CSV file into JIRA using JIRA's CSV importer:
There is also a workaround for importing comments.
Requests for non-supported importers
We are also tracking requests to add other systems to our built-in importers. We encourage users to vote and comment on the systems they are interested in: