Flow Time for Jira — Documentation
What it does
Flow Time shows how long your issues spend in each workflow status — the median and average per status — as a horizontal bar chart on a Jira dashboard. It reconstructs each issue's status history from its changelog, so it works with any workflow.
Getting started
- Open a Jira dashboard (Dashboards → your dashboard).
- Choose Add gadget and add Flow Time — Time in Status.
- In the gadget's edit view, pick a project (the most recent one is pre-selected) and choose Save.
- The chart appears — one bar per status, longest median first.
Reading the chart
- Each bar is the median time issues spend in that status; the breakdown below also shows the average and the number of issues.
- The time unit (minutes / hours / days) scales automatically to your data.
- Completed work stops the clock. When an issue reaches a status in Jira's “done” category, it stops accruing time — so finished issues don't inflate the chart. Terminal statuses are therefore not shown; the chart focuses on where work spends time on its way to done.
Data, performance & limits
- Flow Time reads issues, their status changelogs, and your project list — read-only. It never modifies Jira data and respects each user's permissions.
- For speed, a report analyzes the most recent issues in the data source (currently up to a few hundred) and caches results briefly. If results were limited, the gadget tells you.
- Fault-tolerant: if an individual issue's history can't be read, it is skipped and counted — the report never fails because of one bad issue.
Privacy & security
Flow Time runs entirely on Atlassian Forge; your data never leaves Atlassian's infrastructure. See the privacy policy for details.
Support
Questions, bugs, or feature requests: contact@flowtimeapps.com.