Jira reporting blog

Notes from the team behind Time And History for Jira Cloud: how long issues really sit in each status, what work calendars do to your numbers, and what the issue history can tell you — plus what we got wrong along the way. Engineering notes on how Unitix Flow assembles a release branch and on what a Jira Server board has to get right live here too.

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Time in Status in chart mode: filter chips and the JQL switch in the header, KPI tiles and a donut of hours per status
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What's New in Time And History 2.4.0: JQL, Presets and Time in Status on the Issue

Time And History 2.4.0 for Jira Cloud: run reports on JQL or a saved filter, save views as presets, read time in status on the issue, see email delivery.

20 September 2026 8 min read
Time in Changes: an issue expanded to its changelog — status, assignee and a Story Points change, with time in each value
Reporting

Jira Custom Field History: Who Changed Story Points, When, and For How Long

Jira custom field history lives in the changelog but has no report. How to read Story Points changes — who, when, old and new value, how long it held.

20 September 20269 min read
The Presets menu open over a Time in Status report: a modified preset with Update and Revert, and presets from other reports
Reporting

Save Jira Report Filters as a Preset: Stop Rebuilding the Same Report Every Monday

Save Jira report filters as a named preset: scope, period, work calendar, time format and columns come back in one click — and a schedule can use one.

20 September 202610 min read
Scheduled Reports with a preset-based editor, a Preset changed since badge and a Not delivered sub-line under a run
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Scheduled Jira Reports by Email: How to Know They Actually Arrived

Scheduled Jira reports by email can fail silently when an address bounces. How Time And History flags undelivered recipients, and what to do about each.

20 September 202611 min read
JQL mode in the report header: a highlighted query, Valid JQL with a match count, and a greyed Filters paused chip
Reporting

Jira Time in Status by JQL: Run a Report on Any Query or Saved Filter

Jira time in status by JQL: paste a query into the report header, check the match count before you apply, or run it on a Jira saved filter.

20 September 202611 min read
A Jira issue with the Time And History panel: report switcher, calendar pill, current status, a bar and a legend per status
Time in Status

Jira Time in Status on the Issue View: How Long Has This Ticket Been Here?

See time in status on a Jira issue without leaving it: a panel under the description gives the current status, hours in every status, four more reports.

20 September 202610 min read
The Time in Changes report reading the Jira status change history — an issue table filtered by project and by tracked fields, with one issue expanded into its changelog: the date, the author, the field, the old and new value, and the working time the old value lasted
Reporting

Jira Status Change History: Who Changed What, and When

The History tab shows one issue. Across a sprint, open any issue for each status, assignee or Story Points change, who made it and how long the value held.

7 September 202622 min read

Time in Status

How long every issue sat in To Do, In Progress, Blocked or Review, counted in business hours from Jira's issue history — as a donut, bar or area chart, or as a table with Avg, Median, Min and Max per status.

Read the Time in Status guide

Work calendars

Business days, per-day working hours, a time zone and holidays that repeat every year. Attach a calendar and the nights, weekends and public holidays stop counting towards every duration in every report.

What work calendars change