---
title: Jira action
description: Use the jira action to create issues in Atlassian’s Jira Software. To create issues you need to configure at least one Jira account in elasticsearch.yml...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4491/explore-analyze/alerts-cases/watcher/actions-jira
products:
  - Elasticsearch
---

# Jira action
Use the `jira` action to create issues in [Atlassian’s Jira Software](https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira). To create issues you need to [configure at least one Jira account](#configuring-jira) in `elasticsearch.yml`.

## Configuring Jira actions

You configure Jira actions in the `actions` array. Action-specific attributes are specified using the `jira` keyword.
The following snippet shows a simple jira action definition:
```js
"actions" : {
  "create-jira-issue" : {
    "transform" : { ... },
    "throttle_period" : "5m",
    "jira" : {
      "account" : "integration-account", 
      "fields" : {
          "project" : {
            "key": "PROJ" 
          },
          "issuetype" : {
            "name": "Bug" 
          },
          "summary" : "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors in the last 5 minutes", 
          "description" : "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors in the last 5 minutes (facepalm)", 
          "labels" : ["auto"], 
          "priority" : {
            "name" : "High" 
          }
      }
    }
  }
}
```


## Jira action attributes

Depending of how Jira projects are configured, the issues can have many different fields and values. Therefore the `jira` action can accept any type of sub fields within its `issue` field. These fields will be directly used when calling Jira’s [Create Issue API](https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/cloud/#api/2/issue-createIssue), allowing any type of custom fields to be used.
<note>
  The `project.key` (or `project.id`), the `issuetype.name` (or `issuetype.id`) and `issue.summary` are always required to create an issue in Jira.
</note>


| Name                     | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|--------------------------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `account`                | no       | The Jira account to use to send the message.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| `proxy.host`             | no       | The proxy host to use (only in combination with `proxy.port`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `proxy.port`             | no       | The proxy port to use (only in combination with `proxy.host`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `fields.project.key`     | yes      | The key of the Jira project in which the issue will be created.                                       It can be replaced by `issue.project.id` if the identifier of the                                       project is known.                                                                                                      |
| `fields.issuetype.name`  | yes      | A name that identifies the type of the issue. Jira provides default                                       issue types like `Bug`, `Task`, `Story`, `New Feature` etc. It can                                       be replaced by `issue.issuetype.id` if the identifier of the type                                       is known. |
| `fields.summary`         | yes      | The summary (or title) of the issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `fields.description`     | no       | The description of the issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `fields.labels`          | no       | The labels to apply to the Jira issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| `fields.priority.name`   | no       | The priority of the Jira issue. Jira provides default `High`,                                       `Medium` and `Low` priority levels.                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| `fields.assignee.name`   | no       | Name of the user to assign the issue to.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| `fields.reporter.name`   | no       | Name of the user identified as the reporter of the issue.                                      Defaults to the user account.                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| `fields.environment`     | no       | Name of the environment related to the issue.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| `fields.customfield_XXX` | no       | Custom field XXX of the issue (ex: "customfield_10000": "09/Jun/81")                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |


## Configuring Jira accounts

You configure the accounts Watcher can use to communicate with Jira in the `xpack.notification.jira` namespace in [`elasticsearch.yml`](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4491/deploy-manage/stack-settings).
Watcher supports Basic Authentication for Jira Software. To configure a Jira account you need to specify (see [secure settings](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4491/deploy-manage/security/secure-settings)):
```yaml
bin/elasticsearch-keystore add xpack.notification.jira.account.monitoring.secure_url
bin/elasticsearch-keystore add xpack.notification.jira.account.monitoring.secure_user
bin/elasticsearch-keystore add xpack.notification.jira.account.monitoring.secure_password
```

<warning>
  Storing sensitive data (`url`, `user` and `password`) in the configuration file or the cluster settings is insecure and has been deprecated. Use Elasticsearch's secure [keystore](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4491/deploy-manage/security/secure-settings) method instead.
</warning>

To avoid credentials that transit in clear text over the network, Watcher will reject `url` settings like `http://internal-jira.elastic.co` that are based on plain text HTTP protocol. This default behavior can be disabled with the explicit `allow_http` setting:
<note>
  The `url` field can also contain a path, that is used to create an issue. By default this is `/rest/api/2/issue`. If you set this as well, make sure that this path is the full path to the endpoint to create an issue.
</note>

```yaml
xpack.notification.jira:
  account:
    monitoring:
      allow_http: true
```

<warning>
  It is strongly advised to use Basic Authentication with secured HTTPS protocol only.
</warning>

You can also specify defaults for the [Jira issues](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/main/reference/elasticsearch/configuration-reference/watcher-settings#jira-account-attributes):
```yaml
xpack.notification.jira:
  account:
    monitoring:
      issue_defaults:
        project:
          key: proj
        issuetype:
          name: Bug
        summary: "X-Pack Issue"
        labels: ["auto"]
```

If you configure multiple Jira accounts, you either need to configure a default account or specify which account the notification should be sent with in the `jira` action.
```yaml
xpack.notification.jira:
  default_account: team1
  account:
    team1:
      ...
    team2:
      ...
```