How to set up a Jira control panel in Kiban

Question

I want to create a simple kiban toolbar to show how many problems with jira (priority wise) open and close.

I have elasticsearch 2.2, logstsash and kibana (ELK) are already integrated and working, but since I am very new to ELK, I'm not sure how I can connect a jira instance to logstash.

Answer 1

If you use Elasticsearch <= 1.5, there is Logstash JIRA River Plugin .

For> 1.5, there is nothing to read from the JIRA REST API, so pulling data from JIRA into Elasticsearch would have to rely on something like the Logstash JDBC input plugin . If you are familiar with JIRA's internal structures, this can definitely work for you - if not, then there will be dragons, because JIRA does some pretty complicated (some of them call it scary) things with an RDMS data store. This applies in particular to JIRA user fields.

I know that you did not ask about this, but in the interest of completeness, writing to JIRA (creating problems) is supported in quite a lot of all versions of Elasticsearch.