Connect to Jira

Overview

Connect Sonar to your Jira instance to quickly move from the Sonar initiative to your Jira tasks.  Additionally, the Sonar initiative status will automatically update as your Jira ticket progresses through different statuses. 

Configure Jira

Jira must be enabled in your Sonar account before it can be set up. If you'd like to use the Jira integration, please send an email to our support team ([e-mail]). 

After Jira is Enabled in your account, follow these steps:

1. Create a Jira API Token. Atlassian's instructions can be found at the following Link

2. Once a Jira API token has been created, navigate to your Sonar instance. 

3. Open your Sonar settings, then click on Jira. 

4. Populate the required fields, Jira URL, Username, and API Key/ Token.  The Jira Url needs to contain the "https://" ( i.e., https://seesonar.atlassian.net/)

5.  Click Connect Your Instance

6. Map your Jira statuses to the sonar initiative stages. 

You have now completed the setup of Sonar's integration with Jira. You will now see Jira Issues on your initiatives in Sonar. You can you this button to search for the Jira task you would like to link to the Initiative.