We have a request type in Jira service desk that allows user to request a new Confluence Space. To let the user find a available Space key, I created a Confluence page (with some javascript codes) where user can type their preferred key and check whether it has been used. This is how it looks … Continue reading Confluence Space Key Check Page
I have been recently working on improving our performance monitoring against Jira and Confluence. And here I want to share a few things that I learned, and hope they are useful to you as well. In high level, we have done: Setup both black box monitoring (CPU, memory, IO, Error log ...) and white box … Continue reading Jira and Confluence Performance Monitoring Part One
When upgrading Jira to a newer version, I am not sure if the new Oracle JDBC driver 12.2.0.1 works with our Oracle server release 12.1.0.2. So by asking Google, I found it is. Here is the interoperability support matrix: References: https://blogs.oracle.com/upgrade/client-certification-for-oracle-database-1210212201 https://blogs.oracle.com/upgrade/oracle-database-122-lifetime-support-policy-updated
Occasionally, the ancestor table corrupts in Confluence. The consequence of that is users will lose access to the child pages under their spaces. It happened once after we upgraded our Confluence server. Not sure if the upgrade caused that, or just a coincidence. To confirm if you have corrupted ancestor table, run the the following … Continue reading Confluence: Rebuilding the Ancestor Table
An add-on (or plugin, they are slightly different) is an installable component that supplements or enhances the functionality of Jira and Confluence in some way. e.g Automation for Jira, Team calendar for Confluence. Both recent version of Jira and Confluence primarily use UPM (Universal Plugin Manager) to manage add-ons. They may look very similar in … Continue reading Add-ons management of Jira and Confluence
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