- Log in and open your Qlik Sense app, and click Data load editor from the top menu.
- Click Create new connection in the Data connection panel on the right.
- Select JIRA from the connector list.
- Enter your JIRA API endpoint URL (for example, a search or issues endpoint).
- Configure Basic Auth using your Atlassian email and API token, then click Test connection to verify the request.
- Click Create to store the connection. You can now access the saved connection, browse the available tables, and select the ones you want to load into your app.
How to Integrate Qlik with Jira
Try this guided demo to learn how to integrate Qlik with Jira.
📌 Why this matters
Why this matters
Jira contains the sprint, issue, and project data that engineering and product teams use to track work in progress, blockers, and delivery timelines. Loading this into Qlik Sense lets engineering managers and product leaders build custom dashboards that go beyond Jira's built-in reports, particularly when combining delivery data with business outcomes. This is especially useful for teams running agile workflows who need visibility into velocity, cycle time, or issue resolution trends over time. Centralizing Jira data in Qlik makes it easier to connect engineering output to product and business performance in a single view.
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