Last updated Aug 10, 2021
About External Assets Platform
This documentation is for the ‘External Assets Platform’ - a set of APIs that allows marketplace apps to connect external CMDBs and / or external inventory databases into Jira. It is NOT related to the Assets in Jira Service Management feature set.
Learn more about developing for Assets in Jira Service Management
The External Assets Platform enables you to link your software with Jira and then populate Jira with your asset inventory. This lets users query for their assets in Jira and link them to issues. You can also provide them with a panel that displays asset related information, which is shown in Jira issues.
The following diagram shows how a typical External Assets Platform integration works:
Using this documentation
- If you haven't used the External Assets Platform before, start by reading the Getting started guide.
- Documentation for the REST API and modules can be found in the Reference section.
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