Jira Issues

To connect your Jira and Git data, Jira issues must be linked to pull requests. Jira issues can be linked to pull requests by referencing the Jira issue key (e.g. JRA-123) in your development work.

If you include the issue key in any of the following, your pull request will be automatically linked to the Jira issue:

Pull request title
Commit message
Branch name

You can learn more about how Jira issues are automatically linked to development work in Atlassian’s documentation .

Once your Jira issues and pull requests are linked, you can see end-to-end delivery metrics such as Cycle Time, measured from when work begins on an issue until its associated pull request is deployed.

Pull requests can be linked to multiple issues, and issues can be linked to multiple pull requests. When a pull request is linked to multiple issues, we use the latest in-progress timestamp across those issues as the start of Cycle Time.