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What is Jira?

Jira is a popular project management and issue-tracking tool built by Atlassian. Teams use Jira to plan, track, and manage work—from software development tasks to operational requests. It provides workflows, dashboards, and reporting to keep projects organized and ensure accountability across teams.

What Does the CloudForecast + Jira Integration Do?

The integration helps turn cloud cost insights into actionable tasks inside Jira. With just a few clicks, you can:

  • Create Jira issues directly from Cost Group Reports when unexpected cost increases occur.
  • Generate Jira issues from ZeroWaste findings to flag idle or underutilized resources.
  • Automatically include details, deep links back to CloudForecast, and exact resource IDs so engineers can take action quickly.
  • Configure project, issue type, and assignee via OAuth for seamless setup.

In short, CloudForecast + Jira ensures cloud cost anomalies and waste don’t just get noticed—they get tracked, assigned, and resolved in the tools your team already uses.

Requirements:

  • Active CloudForecast Account
  • Active Jira Account

Setup Jira Integration in CloudForecast

  1. Log in to CloudForecast – From your CloudForecast dashboard, click Integrations in the right-hand menu.
  2. Select Jira – In the Integrations sub-menu, choose Jira.
  3. Start Setup – Click + Setup Jira Integration. You’ll be redirected to Jira’s login screen.
  4. Approve Access – Log in to Jira and approve the requested OAuth permissions.
  5. Done! – Once approved, your Jira integration is active and ready to use.

Permissions Permissions

When connecting CloudForecast to Jira via OAuth, we only request the minimum permissions needed to create issues from CloudForecast reports.

Access Granted

  • ✅ Read Projects – to display a list of projects you can select from.
  • ✅ Read Issue Types – to let you choose the type of issue to create (Task, Bug, Story, etc.).
  • ✅ Read Users / Assignees – to assign the issue to the correct team member.
  • ✅ Create Issues – to generate Jira issues that contain cost insights, resource IDs, and deep links back to CloudForecast.
    • disclaimer: this includes Read Issues since it’s a requirement to Create Issues

What We Don’t Access

  • ❌ No ability to delete issues
  • ❌ No ability to edit existing issues
  • ❌ No ability to manage project settings or workflows
  • ❌ No global admin rights