what is Jira Dashboard

Jira dashboard is used to view the status of multiple or single project. In technical terms, Dashboard is a group of gadgets.

Jira Dashboard types

There are mainly 2 types of dashboard.

• Default - This dashboard is created for you by default.
• Custom - You can create your own dashboards as well.

Gadget types

As I said before Jira dashboard is a group of gadgets. There are 2 types of gadgets

• Free
• Licensed - You need to buy these from the Jira Marketplace

Most popular free gadgets for Jira Dashboard

• Pie Chart

Most popular licensed gadgets for Jira Dashboard

• Xray
• Xphyre

Refine requirements

• PM dashboard - How much budget allocated and given time story points - At specific project
• Executive dashboard
• Scrum dashboard

third party plugins

• Planning and tracking budget - https://youtu.be/7ggMk1lG6No

• https://www.atlassian.com/blog/add-ons/a-brief-guide-to-resource-planning

• All Jira Software Cloud Premium or Enterprise licenses include access to Advanced Roadmaps

• Planner by Tempo – Resource Planning & Capacity Planning - This plugin can be very useful

• Activity Timeline: Capacity Planning, Time Tracking for Jira

• Resource Planning, Project Management, Gantt Chart for Jira

• custom field for budget

• grouping based on project

• custom programming to get report with Jira

Grouped by filters

Currently Jira does not provide the way to use aggregate functions like sum, count etc. To do this, you can use one of the below solutions.

• use rich filters plugin from marketplace - This is not a free option.
• Use simple filter and then export data in excel and then create chart off it. This is a free option.
• Use JSON data using rest api and then create chart from it. This is a free option

Getting data using rest api

You can create api key and then use basic auth to send rest requests. User name will be email address used to create the atlassian account. Password will be api key.

https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-examples/