Jira Plugin for Graylog

A Graylog event notification plugin for creating Jira issues.

Required Graylog version: 3.1.3 and later

Installation

Download the plugin and place the .jar file in your Graylog plugin directory. The plugin directory is the plugins/ folder relative from your graylog-server directory by default and can be configured in your graylog.conf file.

Restart graylog-server and you are done.

Usage

1. Create Jira user

Create Jira user, that will be used to create issues - this user will be a reporter of these issues.

2. Create custom field for duplicate issue checks (optional)

Create custom field e.g. Graylog hash for easy duplicate issue search. Remember to enable this custom field in create issue screen, also allow Jira user (from #1) to fill it and view it. You will need both id of this field (in format customfield_*) and name.

3. Create Graylog notification

Create Graylog notification and choose Jira Notification as Notification type.

4. Configure Jira Notification

Input your Jira configuration and preferences. Here is a screenshot of configuration example.

5. Create Graylog Event Definitions

Create Graylog Event definition and set Jira Notification you created at #4 as its Notification.

6. Receive notification

An issue like below will be created.

Configure duplicate search

Note that this plugin searches for duplicate issue by its description using custom field.

Contribution

1. Fork the repository (https://github.com/unbearables/graylog-plugin-jira/fork)
2. Create your feature branch
3. Commit your changes
4. Rebase your local changes against the main branch
5. Make sure your code can be packaged by mvn without any errors
6. Create a new Pull Request

Getting development started

This project is using Maven 3. Requires Java 8 or higher and yarn.

• Clone this repository.
• Run mvn package to build a JAR file.
• Optional: Run mvn jdeb:jdeb and mvn rpm:rpm to create a DEB and RPM package respectively.
• Copy generated JAR file in target directory to your Graylog plugin directory.
• Restart the Graylog.

Inspiration

Creation of this plugin was inspired by Graylog plugin teams and Graylog jira alarmcallback