Jira configuration drift
DriftGuard
Catch risky Jira board and saved-filter changes before teams lose trust.
- Works with
- Jira Cloud; board monitoring requires Jira Software
- Status
- Available on Atlassian Marketplace for Jira Cloud
ArdSaor Atlassian app
Filter Hygiene for Jira
Find risky, stale, invalid, duplicated, and over-shared Jira filters, then clean up ownership and sharing safely.
Filter Hygiene helps Jira admins turn saved-filter sprawl into an actionable cleanup workflow. It scans for risky sharing, inactive or missing owners, stale filters, invalid JQL, duplicate normalized queries, and filters with missing descriptions.
Product summary
Filter Hygiene helps Jira admins turn saved-filter sprawl into an actionable cleanup workflow. It scans for risky sharing, inactive or missing owners, stale filters, invalid JQL, duplicate normalized queries, and filters with missing descriptions.
Best for: Jira admins cleaning up saved filters that affect dashboards, boards, reports, and access visibility.
Not for: A full Jira configuration-management, backup, migration, or dashboard-management suite.
Helpful short answer
Filter Hygiene is an ArdSaor app for Saved-filter cleanup. It works with Jira Cloud and is available through the Atlassian Marketplace.
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Use cases
- Remove globally shared filters that should be private or scoped.
- Find filters owned by inactive or missing users.
- Identify invalid JQL before dashboards or boards fail.
- Reassign ownership during team or admin transitions.
- Export cleanup records for governance reviews.
Core capabilities
- Scan saved filters for global shares, inactive owners, invalid JQL, duplicates, stale usage, and missing descriptions.
- Group high-risk filters into a cleanup queue.
- Preview bulk actions before making changes.
- Make filters private, remove global shares, or reassign ownership in controlled batches.
- Export CSV or Markdown audit records and review recent activity.
Typical workflow
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Scan saved filters
Search or run a full scan across saved filters available to the app.
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Prioritize risk
Review sharing scope, ownership, duplicate queries, invalid JQL, and stale signals.
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Stage cleanup
Add filters to a controlled cleanup queue instead of changing everything at once.
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Preview changes
Run dry-run previews for privacy, sharing, or owner actions.
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Export evidence
Keep recent activity and reports for managers, security teams, or auditors.
Security, privacy, and support
- Filter Hygiene uses Jira filter metadata and owner/share data for governance workflows.
- Writes are limited to supported filter ownership and sharing cleanup actions selected by an administrator.
- Recent activity captures before and after summaries, failures, and exportable records.
- App data is stored in Forge storage.
FAQ
Will Filter Hygiene delete filters?
No. The documented cleanup actions focus on ownership and sharing. It does not position itself as a filter deletion tool.
Can admins preview changes?
Yes. Bulk cleanup actions support dry-run previews so admins can review the change set before applying it.
What evidence can be exported?
Recent Activity records who initiated actions, before and after owner or share summaries, failures, and exportable CSV or Markdown reports.
Does it replace DriftGuard?
No. Filter Hygiene cleans up saved filters. DriftGuard monitors selected board and filter configuration changes over time.
Related ArdSaor apps and solutions
Jira label cleanup
Label Doctor
Find duplicate Jira labels, preview safe merges, and keep cleanup undoable.
- Works with
- Jira Cloud
- Status
- Available on Atlassian Marketplace for Jira Cloud
Solution
Jira Admin Cleanup and Governance
Jira admin work often fails in small places: stale filters, globally shared reports, label sprawl, and silent board changes. ArdSaor apps focus on these concrete cleanup and governance jobs with previews, audit records, and Forge-first architecture.