how to configure Jira Dashboard in Kibana

Question

I want to create a simple dashboard in kibana to show how many jira issues(priority wise) are opened and closed.

I have elasticsearch 2.2, logstsash and kibana (ELK) already integrated and running but, since i am very new to ELK i am not sure how i can have my jira instance to connect to logstash.

Answer 1

If you're running Elasticsearch <= 1.5, there is a Logstash JIRA River Plugin.

For > 1.5, there isn't anything that can read from the JIRA REST API, so pulling the data from JIRA into Elasticsearch would have to rely on something like the Logstash JDBC input plugin. If you're familiar with JIRA internals, this could definitely work for you - if not, then "here be dragons" as JIRA does some pretty sophisticated (some would call it scary) stuff with RDMS data storage. Specifically this is true of JIRA custom fields.

I know you weren't asking about this, but in the interest of completeness, writing to JIRA (creating issues) is supported in pretty much all versions of Elasticsearch.