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Welcome to Jira Service Management development! This overview will cover everything you need to know to integrate with Jira Cloud. This includes the Atlassian Connect framework, which is used to integrate with Atlassian Cloud applications, as well as Jira Service Management features and services that you can use when building an app.
Jira Service Management is primarily used as a service solution, from asset management to DevOps. A diverse range of IT teams use Jira Service Management, including support Management teams, operations teams, and more. With over 15,000 of these teams using Jira Service Management, there's plenty of potential to extend it. Jump in and get started!
If you haven't used Jira Service Management before, check out the product overview for more information.
If you want to integrate with any Jira Cloud product, including Jira Service Management Cloud, then you should use Atlassian Connect. Atlassian Connect is an extensibility framework that handles discovery, installation, authentication, and seamless integration into the Jira UI. An Atlassian Connect app could be an integration with another existing service, new features for Jira, or even a new product that runs within Jira.
If you haven't used Atlassian Connect before, check out the Getting started guide. This guide will help you learn how to set up a development environment and build a Jira Cloud app.
The three building blocks of integrating with Jira Service Management are the REST API, webhooks, and modules.
![]() | The Jira Service Management Cloud REST API lets your app communicate with Jira Service Management Cloud. For example, using the REST API, you can retrieve a queue's requests to display in your app or create requests from phone calls. See the Jira Service Management Cloud REST API reference for details. Note, Jira Service Management is built on the Jira platform, so you can also use the Jira Cloud platform REST API to interact with Jira Service Management Cloud. |
![]() | Apps and applications can react to conditions/events in Jira Service Management via automation rules. You can implement an "automation action" that performs actions in a remote system as part of an automation rule. An automation rule can also be configured to fire a webhooks that notifies your app or application. For more information, see Automation webhooks. |
![]() | A module is simply a UI element, like a tab or a menu. Jira Service Management UI modules allow apps to interact with the Jira Service Management UI. For example, your app can use a Jira Service Management UI module to add a panel to the top of customer portals. For more information, see About Jira modules. |
Jira Service Management is an application built on the Jira platform. The Jira platform provides a set of base functionality that is shared across all Jira applications, like issues, workflows, search, email, and more. A Jira application is an extension of the Jira platform that provides specific functionality. For example, Jira Service Management adds customer request portals, support queues, SLAs, a knowledge base, and automation.
This means that when you develop for Jira Service Management, you are actually integrating with the Jira Service Management application as well as the Jira platform. The Jira Service Management application and Jira platform each have their own REST APIs, webhook events, and web fragments.
Read the Jira Cloud platform documentation for more information.
If you are looking for ideas on building the next Jira Service Management Cloud integration, the following use cases and examples may help.
Here are some common Jira Service Management use cases:
Here are a few examples of what you can build on top of Jira Service Management:
Ready to get hands-on with Jira Cloud development? Read our Getting started guide to learn how to set up a development environment and build an app.
These resources will also help you start developing:
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