(IMPORTANT UPDATE OF THIS POST: See How to calculate “Lead Time” or “Real Average Resolution Days” with eazyBI and JIRA (Part II)) The default calculated measure of eazyBI “Average Resolution Days” counts until the last Resolution filled ( not until the first value of the Resolution field), then if you set a new Resolution from “Resolved”…
Read MoreTwo 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,…
Read MoreHow 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
Read MoreAtlassian Crowd LDAP problems and downtimes?… see this post
After the upgrading of Crowd, our servers experimented a new problem… sometimes Crowd becomes “stuck” (also JIRA & Confluence because the SSO) and the log of Crowd show errors in the LDAP connection… but not always… two times a week.. etc. Examples of errors in the log: Caused by: com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: org.springframework.ldap.PartialResultException: nested exception is javax.naming.PartialResultException…
Read MoreConfigure Tomcat 9 for HTTP/2
The Goal of HTTP2 The goal of HTTP/2 is to increase the perceived performance of the web browsing experience. Why Do We Need HTTP2 A web page has many resources that need to be load. In HTTP 1.0 requests for all resources are sent all at once and the server responds to each request. If…
Read MoreMeasure timings of REST WS calls to JIRA with SoapUI
SOAPUI is the best interface to make tests to JIRA Web Services. And it’s free. Download SOAPUI It’s very easy, only install and make the test. Set the Endpoint to your JIRA URL Domain and protocol (http or https) and put the resource URL to the REST Endpoint (like /rest/api/2/PROJECT-NUM/worklog to put worklog in an…
Read MoreNewRelic: The best Monitoring tool for JIRA
Good morning my proletarian psychic workers! 🙂 These days I was working analyzing the transactions of my JIRA to get better performance and to solve different problems. Due this, the first thing to do is to find the best tool to analyze all the http/s requests and querys to the database also the external services,…
Read MoreImproved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6!!
PHP 7.0.0 RC 6 Released The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0 RC 6. This is the eleventh pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A…
Read MoreIs 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…
Read MoreIt’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,…
Read MoreJIRA Performance Trick: JVM configured with compressed strings and more
Modify the file: apache-tomcat/bin/setenv.sh Add this params to CATALINA_OPTS and then restart JIRA service -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:+UseCompressedStrings -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat -XX:+OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -XX:+UseCompressedOops
Read MorePerformance Trick: Minimize the BROWSE permission groups and members to speedup JIRA
“Replace jira-users with the ‘Anyone’ permission — Thanks to Jamie Echlin for this tip. Permission checks are expensive, especially for any JIRA issues with hundreds or thousands of links, such as GreenHopper epics.” Note that this tip is only possible with instances in which there is no anonymous access allowed or for which there is no…
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