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How to integrate Metabase with Jira Data
Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to live Jira data and create an interactive dashboard in Metabase from Jira data.
Metabase is an open source data visualization tool that allows users to create interactive dashboards. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, users can easily create visualizations and dashboards linked to live Jira data. This article describes how to connect to Jira and build a simple visualization using Jira data.
CData Connect provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Jira, allowing you to easily integrate with live Jira data in Metabase — without replicating the data. Connect looks exactly like a SQL Server database to Metabase and uses optimized data processing out of the box to push all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Jira, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Jira data.
About Jira Data Integration
CData simplifies access and integration of live Jira data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:
- Gain bi-directional access to their Jira objects like issues, projects, and workflows.
- Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like changing issues status, creating custom fields, download or uploading an attachment, modifying or retrieving time tracking settings, and more.
- Authenticate securely using a variety of methods, including username and password, OAuth, personal access token, API token, Crowd or OKTA SSO, LDAP, and more.
Most users leverage CData solutions to integrate Jira data with their database or data warehouse, whether that's using CData Sync directly or relying on CData's compatibility with platforms like SSIS or Azure Data Factory. Others are looking to get analytics and reporting on live Jira data from preferred analytics tools like Tableau and Power BI.
Learn more about how customers are seamlessly connecting to their Jira data to solve business problems from our blog: Drivers in Focus: Collaboration Tools.
Getting Started
Configure Jira Connectivity for Metabase
Connectivity to Jira from Metabase is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Jira data from Metabase, we start by creating and configuring a Jira connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
![]( "Adding a Connection")
- Select "Jira" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Jira.
To connect to JIRA, provide the User and Password. Additionally, provide the Url; for example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.
![]( "Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)")
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Jira Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
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Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
![]( "Creating a new PAT")
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Jira data from Metabase.
Connect to CData Connect from Metabase
After creating the virtual database, navigate to your Metabase instance. Use the SQL Server interface to connect to Connect Cloud.
- Navigate to the administration screen (Settings -> Admin) and click "Add Database" from the "Databases" tab
![]( "Adding a new database connection to Metabase.")
- Configure the connection to Connect Cloud and click "Save"
- Database type: Select "SQL Server"
- Name: Name the connection (e.g. "Jira (Connect Cloud)")
- Host: tds.cdata.com
- Port: 14333
- Database name: The name of the connection you just created (e.g. JIRA1)
- Username: A Connect Cloud username (e.g. user@mydomain.com)
- Password: The PAT for the above Connect Cloud user
- Click to Use a secure connection (SSL)
![]( "Configuring the connection to Connect Cloud.")
Execute Jira Data with Metabase
Once you configure the connection to Connect Cloud, you can query Jira and build visualizations.
- Use the "Write SQL" tool to retrieve the Jira data
![]( "Click the 'Write SQL' button.")
- Write a SQL query based on the Jira connection in CData Connect Cloud, e.g.
SELECT Projects.LeadName, Issues.Summary FROM Projects, Issues WHERE Projects.Id=Issues.ProjectId
![]( "Collected data (Salesforce is shown).")
- Navigate to the "Visualization" screen, choose a visualization, and configure the visualization
![]( "Collected data (Salesforce is shown).")
More Information & Free Trial
At this point, you have built a simple visualization from Jira data in Metabase. You can continue to work with live Jira data in Metabase just like you would any SQL Server database. For more information on creating a live connection to Jira (and more than 100 other data sources), visit the Connect Cloud page. Sign up for a free trial and start working with live Jira data in Metabase today.
