Jira notifications setup

A new integration, Snyk Security for Jira Software, is coming soon. If you are interested in early access, you can request it. This page covers the integration available in Snyk.

Set up your Jira integration

Snyk Jira integration allows you to manually raise Jira issues in the Snyk UI for vulnerabilities or license issues. The Jira integration also includes APIs (see Snyk API docs).

Prerequisites

• Snyk supports Jira version 5 and later versions.

• The following Jira permissions are required: Browse Projects and Create Issues.

How to set up your Jira integration

The Jira account credentials are configured in the Snyk Web UI: Organization Settings > Integrations page.

It is best practice to set up a new user in Jira for this integration, instead of using the credentials of an existing account.

Cloud-hosted Jira implementations require a username and API token authentication. Jira API tokens are generated in Atlassian API tokens. Self-hosted implementations are able to authenticate with a username and password.

Create a Jira issue

Once you set up the Jira integration connection, open one of your Snyk Projects in the Snyk Web UI. A new button, Create an issue, now appears at the bottom of each vulnerability and license issue card. This button allows you to create a Jira issue.

When you select Create an issue, a Jira issue creation form appears. This form includes the Snyk issue details, which are copied into the associated fields. You can review and edit this form before creating the issue.

Select the Jira project to which you want to send the issue. The fields in the example that follows are based on the fields that the specific project has, so switching between projects may show different options.

After you create a Jira issue, the Jira key with a link is displayed on the issue card. If you are using the Jira API, you can generate multiple Jira issues for the same issue in Snyk.

You can also see which Jira issues have been created in the Issues view in your Reports.

See also:

Set up Snyk Broker with Jira