2 Weeks Challenge of ‘Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Administrator’


Early this year I was thinking to get the ACP - 100 Jira Administrator certificate. Now it is close to the end of this financial year, and I still have not done it yet. May be it is the time for another 2 weeks challenge like the one I did last year. Exam Topics Advanced … Continue reading 2 Weeks Challenge of ‘Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Administrator’ →

Time Zone in ServiceNow API Request


I found out that the time zone settings (e.g for due date) in ServiceNow API call is a bit tricky when trying to automate the change request creation in ServicerNow. Here is the rule that I figured out: If the account that is used for making the API request has time zone settings, then the … Continue reading Time Zone in ServiceNow API Request →

Jira takes long time to restart after upgrade


We noticed that Jira startup time increased from 3+ mins to 20+ mins after a recent upgrade (7.10 to 7.12). After analysed a few restart relevant events in the logs, I found that there are some messages related to DB row migrations which were not there before the upgrade. Here is a example: 5/3/19 9:43:14.816 … Continue reading Jira takes long time to restart after upgrade →

Error rendering ‘com.atlassian.jira.jira-view-issue-plugin:activitymodule’. Please contact your Jira administrators.


If you are seeing the above error in the Activity section of a Jira issue. Your Jira may have hit a Jira bug. Check this out - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDSERVER-5966 To confirm it, you can try: (1) Check the issue via API - https://<jira-server>/rest/api/2/issue/issue-key (2) Search comment in the result, to see what you got there. In … Continue reading Error rendering ‘com.atlassian.jira.jira-view-issue-plugin:activitymodule’. Please contact your Jira administrators. →