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Introduction

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Integrity Check for Jira is the perfect tool to find, locate and resolve configuration problems within your Jira systeminstance. You can run an integrity check checks on the whole Jira configuration system or a on specific subset of itsubsets.

Find and resolve configuration errors in Jira

Use Integrity Check for Jira to locate and find configuration errors in your Jira preventing your users you from accomplishing their your everyday activities or preventing admins from creating and deploying Configuration Manager snapshots.

Integrity Check locates the errors and provides full details of the error locations and root causes. In addition to that, it offers you automated solutions to quick fix actions that automatically solve some of the most common problems found called quick fixesin Jira.

You can learn more about using Integrity Check as part of Configuration Manager for Jira in our documentation.

Resolve errors preventing

users

you from performing everyday tasks

’s As we already mentioned, Integrity Check’s primary use case is to help you find and fix errors in a Jira configuration that prevent or disrupt your users you from performing their your everyday activities. For example, workflow post functions or validators referring to missing fields will lead to unexpected end-user behavior when working with Jira issues. In addition, a broken filter referring to missing configuration elements (like custom fields, workflows, etc.) will prevent Jira users you from easily finding quickly and easily issues and necessary information. Learn more

Resolve errors preventing

admins

you from creating and deploying Configuration Manager snapshots

When you have get Configuration Manager for Jira, you also get Integrity Check for Jira is as a part of it. You can use the Integrity Check to find, report, and resolve errors, which stop admins you from creating or deploying snapshots. In this case, you have one additional integrity check scope called the snapshot scope. It allows you to run all checks on the last failed snapshot and rerun the snapshot creation after resolving the errors found. Learn more

Improve Jira's performance and efficiency

You can use Integrity Check for Jira to find errors that are have become bottlenecks in the your configuration and slow down the performance of your Jira instance.

For example, you might have many agile boards and dashboards which that aren't used anywhere or refer to missing filters, causing performance degradation of your Jira system. Clearing all those boards will improve the efficiency and performance of a Jira instance.

The errors when you have agile boards or dashboards referring to missing filters However, those errors can't be resolved using Jira's UI. They can only be resolved only by manually manipulating the database, which is a time-consuming and error-prone actiontask. Integrity Check for Jira allows you to safely fix all these errors automatically.

Problems with custom fields are the main factor that leads to performance degradation of a Jira instance. Use Integrity Check to clean up the redundant custom fields.

You can use Integrity Check's Bulk quick fix feature to fix all errors detected simultaneously. As a result, your Jira will speed up and become more productive after resolving the detected integrity faults altogether in one swift action.

Maintaining your Jira's performance and productivity in good shape is an ongoing effort, and you need to regularly run integrity checks on the . That’s why, with the help of Integrity Check, you can easily ensure everything is in order with your Jira system.

Features to manage integrity errors

Please take Take a quick tour through the features that allow you to accomplish the use cases listed above and even more. Learn more

Easily detect broken Jira configurations

Prevent corrupted configurations from making it to production by identifying errors in the configuration of your Jira instances, such as references to missing custom fields, groups, and users in workflows.

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Locate and navigate to errors with a single click

Use path links to navigate directly to each error location or each configuration element from the error chain. You can apply all available quick fixes simultaneously with the bulk quick fix feature.

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Fix configuration errors on the fly

Save time and stay in control while resolving configuration errors by applying an automated predefined quick fix or making customized manual adjustments. You can also apply all available quick fixes simultaneously with the bulk quick fix feature.

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Locate and navigate to errors with a single click

Use path links to navigate directly to each error location or each configuration element from the error chain.

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Choose the scope of your integrity check

Integrity Check’s scope selection allows you to run integrity checks on different sets of the Jira configuration. For example, you can run the integrity check on the whole Jira system, on selected projects, or just on the last failed snapshot (only with Configuration Manager for Jira).

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