Gadgets for reporting purposes

JIRA comes with a lot of useful gadgets that you can add in the dashboard and use for reporting purposes. Additional gadgets can be added in JIRA by installing add-ons. Let's take a look at some of these gadgets.

Activity Stream

This gadget will display all the latest updates in your JIRA instance. It's also possible to limit this stream to a particular filter. This gadget is quite useful because it displays up-to-date information on the dashboard:

Activity Stream

Created vs. Resolved Chart

The project Summary page has a chart to display all the issues that were created and resolved in the past 30 days. There is a similar gadget to ...

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