Overview
The Lyftron Provider for JIRA offers the most natural way to access JIRA data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing JIRA data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s JIRA data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months
The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
- Real-time access to JIRA.
- Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
- Collaborative query processing.
Prerequisites
The user must have credentials for JIRA,Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron
Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps
Create your JIRA connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:
Step1. Add your connection
Click on Connect section on the left panel → Click on Add Connection button
Step2. Select your connector
In the connector selection panel, search and click JIRA for your connection
Step3. Enter your connection details
In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish JIRA connection with Lyftron.
User=[your_username];APIToken=[your_Api_Token];Url=[https://your_site_name.atlassian.net]| Key | Value | Field |
| Connection Name | Enter your connection details | Required |
| User | Your User | Required |
| APIToken | APIToken | Required |
| Url | your Url | Required |
| Logfile** | Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file. [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx | Optional |
| Verbosity** | Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging | Optional |
** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.
Step4. Test your connection
Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron JIRA connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
The Lyftron Provider for JIRA models entities in the JIRA API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.
API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.
Tables
The Lyftron Provider for JIRA models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your JIRA store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.
Views
Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views.
| Name | Type | Description |
| Attachments | Tables | Query, insert and delete the available Attachments in JIRA. |
| Boards | Tables | Query, insert and delete the agile Boards in Jira. |
| Comments | Tables | Create, modify, delete and query the available Comment types in JIRA. |
| Issues | Tables | Create, modify, delete and query Issues in JIRA. |
| IssueTypes | Tables | Query the available Issue Types in JIRA. |
| ProjectComponents | Tables | Query, create, modify, and delete the available Components of a project in JIRA. |
| Projects | Tables | Query, update, insert and delete the available Projects in JIRA. |
| ProjectVersions | Tables | Query,create, modify and delete the available Versions of a project in JIRA. |
| Sprints | Tables | Query,create, modify and delete the agile Sprints in Jira. |
| Users | Tables | Query the available Users in JIRA. |
| Worklogs | Tables | Create, modify, delete and query the available Worklogs in JIRA. |
| Audit | Views | Query the audit log of your JIRA account. |
| BoardIssues | Views | Query the agile Board Issues in Jira. |
| BoardSprints | Views | Query the agile Sprints related to a Jira Board. |
| Configuration | Views | Query the available Configurations in JIRA. |
| Dashboards | Views | Query the available Dashboards in JIRA. |
| Epics | Views | Query all the Epics. |
| FavouriteFilters | Views | Query the favourite Filters in JIRA. |
| Fields | Views | Query the available System and Custom Fields in JIRA. |
| Filters | Views | Query the set up Filters in JIRA. This table is not available in JIRA Server. |
| Groups | Views | Query the available Groups in JIRA. |
| IssueAffectedVersions | Views | Query the Affected Versions of an issue in JIRA. |
| IssueChangelogs | Views | Query the available IssueChangelogs in JIRA. |
| IssueComponents | Views | Query the available IssueComponents in JIRA. |
| IssueCustomFields | Views | Query the available Custom Fields in JIRA. |
| IssueFixVersions | Views | Query the available IssueFixVersions in JIRA. |
| IssueLinks | Views | Query the available IssueLinks in JIRA. |
| IssueLinkTypes | Views | Lists all the issue link types. |
| IssueSubtasks | Views | Query the available IssueSubtasks in JIRA. |
| IssueTransitions | Views | Query the available IssueTransitions in JIRA. |
| MyPermissions | Views | Query the available Permissions of the current user in JIRA. |
| Permissions | Views | Query the available Permissions in JIRA. |
| ProjectCategories | Views | Query all the project categories. |
| ProjectRoles | Views | Query roles for all projects in JIRA. |
| Roles | Views | Query the available roles in JIRA. |
| SecurityLevels | Views | Query all the created security levels. |
| SecuritySchemes | Views | Query all the created security schemes. |
| SprintIssues | Views | Query the agile Sprint Issues in Jira. |
| Statuses | Views | Query the possible Statuses in Jira. |
| Votes | Views | Query the available Votes in JIRA. |
| Watchers | Views | Query the available Watchers in JIRA. |
| Workflows | Views | Query the available Workflows in Jira. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to JIRA Advanced Settings. Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.