Data migrated using the Cloud-hosted migration assistant

Here is the complete list of supported Atlassian apps and entities that can be migrated using the Cloud-hosted migration assistant.

Supported Atlassian apps

The Cloud-hosted migration assistant can help migrate data into:

  • Jira Cloud (including software and business projects)

  • Jira Service Management

Migrated data

Here is a list of what data is moved based on the migration method you select while creating a migration plan.

What data is migrated when you select Migrate users in advance?

What is migrated

What’s not migrated

  • Users and groups from active directories

    • Jira Cloud users (in both software and business projects), and Jira Service Management agents

    • Deleted users from Server are migrated as “Former user”

      • Deleted users connected who are part of projects being migrated will be created in cloud

    • All groups in active directories

    • Users managed by external directories

  • Users and groups from inactive directories

    • To migrate these users, make the directories active.


  • Jira entities and permissions

  • Jira Software project data and boards

  • Jira Core project data


Any data related to issues


Jira Service Management project data


Advanced Roadmap plans


Marketplace apps and app data


Project setup data


Jira global entities and permissions


User profiles


Services from Jira Server and Jira Data Center

What data is migrated when you select Migrate projects?

What is migrated

What’s not migrated

  • Jira global entities and permissions

    • Cross-project boards

    • Cross-project filters

    • Boards that belong to inactive users

    • Filters on boards that are not migrated

    • Filters that share permissions with projects

    • Dashboards

    • Filter subscriptions

  • Project setup

    • Custom field language translations

    • Workflow functions

      • Properties

      • Triggers

    • Project avatars

    • Canned responses

    • Links to issues or entities that are not migrated

    • System dashboards

    • Custom issue type icons

    • Project shortcuts

    • Workflow UI Diagram Positioning

    • Knowledge base articles linked to service projects

    • Mail handlers

    • Issue collectors

    • Issue redirection of moved issues won’t work for migrated Jira tickets

    • Custom fields

      • Issue picker

    • Kanban board sub-filter

    • Issue type translations

  • Jira Software project data

    • Issue rank

    • Epics (epic link)

      • Epic name

      • Epic color

      • Epic link

      • Epic status

    • Issue history (including some custom fields)

      • Epic name

      • Epic color

      • Epic link

      • Epic status

      • Issue rank

      • Original Estimate

      • Remaining Estimate

      • Flagged

      • Components

      • Environment

    • Sprints

    • Versions (affects versions, fix versions)

    • Filters associated with boards being migrated

    • Boards connected to only one project that is being migrated

  • Jira global entities and permissions

    • Global permissions

    • General configuration (timezone, language, etc)

    • Webhooks

    • Customized filter columns

    • Comment reactions

    • Boards not connected to the projects being migrated

  • Jira Software Boards

    • Boards

    • Name

    • Administrators

    • Filter & permissions

    • Location

    • Advanced board settings

      • Column names and status mapping

      • Quick filters

      • Swimlanes

      • Sprint permissions

      • Card colors

      • Time statistic / estimation

  • Users and groups from inactive directories

    • Make directories active to migrate these users

  • Jira Service Management project data

    • Jira Service Management projects

    • All users including agents

    • All groups

    • All customers

    • Request type

    • Request type groups

    • Custom fields

    • Customer organization

      • Approval

      • SLAs

    • Project settings

      • Legacy automation rules

      • Customer notification template

      • Portal settings

      • Calendar

      • Workflow

      • Language support settings

      • Customer satisfaction settings

      • Reports

    • Queue

  • User profiles

    • User avatars: users will need to update their avatars after migrating

    • Passwords: unless you've set up SSO, users will need to reset their passwords after migrating

    • Timezones: timezone information on a per-user profile will be lost

    • Activity Stream: activity stream is not migrated to cloud

    • Jira user properties: Jira user properties are not migrated to cloud

  • Jira Core project data (Note: These entities are also part of Jira Software and Jira Service Management.)

    • Project details:

      • Name

      • Key

      • Project type

      • Project category

      • Description

      • Project lead

      • Default assignee

    • Project roles

    • Issue types

    • Issue type scheme

      • Default issue type

    • Issue type screen scheme

    • Workflows scheme

    • Field configuration scheme

    • Workflows - basic links to the correctly migrated workflow scheme with status and transitions

    • Workflow functions

    • Workflow transition properties

    • Screens schemes

    • Screens

      • Tabs

    • Status category

    • Permission schemes

    • Notification schemes

      • Only system events with default notifications are migrated. User-defined custom notifications are not migrated. Custom events are also not migrated.

    • Issue security

    • Priorities and priority schemes

  • Some items from Advanced Roadmaps plans

    • Classic plans

    • Scenarios

    • Unsaved scenario data

    • Saved views

  • Issue data

    • Summary

    • Description

    • Issue type

    • Issue number

    • Status

    • Resolution

    • Labels

    • Creator

    • Reporter

    • Assignee

    • Due date

    • Subtasks

    • Some custom fields

      • Text

      • Date

      • Number

      • Time

      • Labels

      • Select list (single choice, multiple choice, cascading select)

      • Checkbox

      • User picker (single/multiple)

      • Project picker (single project)

      • Text field (read only)

      • Multi-line text

      • Radio button

      • Environment

      • URL

    • @mentions

    • Watchers/ votes

    • Issue links (including link types)

    • Attachments

    • Comments

    • Comments with security

    • Story points

    • Time spent

    • Issue history

    • Issue work log

    • Issue key history

  • Other issue types

    • Archived issue

  • Services from Jira Server and Jira Data Center

  • Advanced Roadmaps plans

    • Plans with issue sources as projects

    • Plans that have issue sources as private filters

    • Plans with issue sources as single- or cross-project boards

    • Plans that have issue sources as filters

    • Users and groups

    • Shared teams

    • Global configuration

    • Custom issue types, custom fields and custom hierarchy mapping

    • Live plans will be migrated as plans with improved interface

    • User defined custom fields of type

      • Parent Link

      • Team

      • Target start

      • Target end

  • Users and groups from active directories

    • Jira Work Management and Jira Software users, and Jira Service Management agents

    • Deleted users from Server are migrated as “Former user”. Only deleted users connected to the projects being migrated will be created in cloud

    • All groups in active directories

    • Users managed by external directories


  • Archived projects



*Marketplace apps and their data as well as Jira Service Management assets can be migrated with the help of Atlassian support.


 

Last modified on Jan 30, 2026

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