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March 29, 2020March 29, 2020

Let’s Encrypt ACMEv2 protocol upgrade

You should upgrade to an ACMEv2 compatible client before June 1, 2020, or certificate issuance will fail. sudo apt update sudo apt install –only-upgrade certbot Check the version: certbot –version If issues/problems, try this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot Test it running this: sudo certbot renew –dry-run By MrAddon

April 7, 2019April 7, 2019

ScriptRunner for Jira – Script Fields trick to use Common Classes

For a large scripts exist a trick to reduce the complexity of the Script Fields if you use classes that can be “common” and reused between other Script Fields. For example, imagine we want to create a Script field that show a report HTML inside the tickets with the Lean metrics. Something like this: And…

January 12, 2018August 31, 2018

IT Services, JIRA Plugins & Trainings @Barcelona(Spain) @Bologna(Italy)

We provide solutions and integrations for your business needs. We provide BPO Services. We share our know-how in Agile Software developments (Scrum & Kanban) providing consulting services with the best professional tools We are experts in all Atlassian products ( JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Hip Chat) and of some of the best plugins (Tempo, eazyBI, JExcel,…

September 30, 2017September 30, 2017

Two tricks to improve the performance and security of your Jira Server 7.4

There are two tricks to improve the performance and the security of a large Jira Server 7.4 For the first “trick“, we can develop a little Jira plugin, or we can set a “Script Fragment” with the plugin Adaptavist Groovy Scriptrunner. The purpose of the improvement is to avoid problematic JQL queries. In Jira, by default,…

August 18, 2017August 18, 2017

How to delete all Inactive/Drafts Workflows in JIRA in one shot with Groovy Scriptrunner

Very easy, try to enter in the “Groovy Script Console” and execute this code. source extracted from here

April 12, 2016

Configure NGINX to HTTP/2

Experimental support for HTTP/2 became available in Nginx version 1.9.5 (mainline). It is really easy to enable, and I’ll show you how. If you’re already running SPDY, please note that the SPDY module have been replaced with the HTTP/2 module in Nginx. Fortunately, to run HTTP/2 you just need to upgrade to Nginx 1.9.5 or…

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016

Tuning JVM Garbage Collector (Best values for JIRA 6 & 7 large instances)

The following example JVM settings are recommended for most production servers (JIRA works better as standalone installation): -server -Xms24G -Xmx24G -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=20 -XX:ConcGCThreads=5 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=70 For production replica servers (test environments), use the example settings: -server -Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=20 -XX:ConcGCThreads=5 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=70 For standalone installations (recommended in JIRA large installations), use the…

October 5, 2015

One simple way to obtain time measures of JIRA from terminal

The best way is using CURL from command line time curl -D- -u raul.pelaez:*** -X GET -H “Content-Type: application/json” http://127.0.0.1:8080/rest/api/2/search?jql=assignee=raul.pelaez real 0m7.098s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.012s time curl -D- -u raul.pelaez:*** -X GET -H “Content-Type: application/json” http://10.2.29.224:8080/rest/api/2/search?jql=assignee=raul.pelaez real 0m7.562s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.008s time curl -D- -u raul.pelaez:*** -X GET -H “Content-Type: application/json” https://jira.domain.com/rest/api/2/search?jql=assignee=raul.pelaez real…

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015

Generating a Thread Dump of JIRA with Jstack

Occasionally, JIRA may appear to ‘freeze’ during execution of an operation. During these times, it is helpful to retrieve a thread dump — a log containing information about currently running threads and processes within the Java Virtual Machine. Taking thread-dumps is a non-destructive process that can be run on live systems. This document describes the…

October 5, 2015

Clone or Copy a JIRA Project configuration with Groovy ScriptRunner (With or without issues)

It’s easy, only you need go to “Add-ons” and then to “Built-in Scripts–> Copy Project” Then only fill the form to clone or copy the configuration of a source project.

September 3, 2015September 8, 2015

Is a regular JIRA restart important? TRICK TO SOLVE THE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION IN JIRA 6.3

Do you restart JIRA e.g. once a week? Is it recomended in order to speed it up? Some users using JIRA very intensively are requesting this, realising that the system is slowing down after a certain time…. VERSION: JIRA 6.3 TRICK 1: The performance increases dramatically if you use Java8 instead of Java7!! SEE MORE: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Java+8+Improves+JIRA+Performance+Dramatically…

August 25, 2015

It’s time to Use NGINX as the Standard Proxy Server for Atlassian’s JIRA

With NGINX now serving over 37% of the top 1000 websites it’s a great time to evaluate replacing Apache as the standard proxy server for Atlassian’s JIRA issue tracker. Two reasons you should consider NGINX: Configuration is fast and simple, saving you tons of time NGINX handles highly concurrent, long-lived connections out of the box,…

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