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General
What is Great Gadgets?
Great Gadgets is a powerful app for Jira and Confluence that helps teams track performance, progress, and predictability through insightful Jira dashboards and custom reports in form of Confluence pages. It offers a wide range of gadgets and macros that visualize key Agile metrics — such as burndown charts, velocity, cycle time, control charts, cumulative flow diagrams, and more — all within your Jira dashboards or Confluence pages.
Who is Great Gadgets for?
It’s designed for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, Project Managers, Team Leads, and anyone who wants actionable insights from Jira data.
Why should I choose Great Gadgets over other Jira reporting apps?
Unlike many reporting tools, Great Gadgets is designed for both simplicity and depth. You can configure powerful visual reports in minutes — no complex setup or external data processing needed. It supports Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, and hybrid methodologies, provides real-time Jira integration, and ensures data accuracy and reliability directly from your Jira issues.
Plus, its flexibility allows you to track multiple teams, projects, or boards in a unified view — something that many competing apps can’t do natively.
With Great Gadgets, you don’t need multiple separate apps for project and release tracking, time-in-status reporting, flow metrics, SLA tracking, custom charts, or BI-style analytics — it gracefully covers all these aspects in one unified, easy-to-use solution.
Can Great Gadgets replace my Excel spreadsheets?
Yes, it eliminates the need to export and manually process Jira data in Excel or other external tools.
With Great Gadgets, all your metrics, calculations, and visualizations are generated automatically and always stay up to date — directly inside Jira or Confluence. Whether you need project summaries, pivot tables, pivot charts, custom formulas & KPIs, or performance analytics, everything is computed, visualized, and refreshed in real time, without the hassle of spreadsheets or manual data manipulation.
Is there a free trial available?
Yes, Great Gadgets has a 30-day free trial period available directly from the Atlassian Marketplace.
Where can I find help or tutorials?
You can find detailed tutorials, videos, and step-by-step guides on our blog page, YouTube channel and documentation.
If you can’t find the answer to your question or need more information about Great Gadgets, feel free to contact us directly at support@stonikbyte.com.
How can I contact support?
Our support team is available via our support portal or by emailing support@stonikbyte.com.
Features and Functionality
Can I use Great Gadgets with Jira Cloud or Data Center?
Yes. Great Gadgets is available for both Jira deployment types — Cloud and Data Center — with the same consistent functionality across them. It’s optimized for performance, even on large Jira instances.
How easy is it to set up and use?
Extremely easy. Once installed, Great Gadgets integrates seamlessly with your Jira dashboards. You can add and configure gadgets using JQL, saved Jira filters, or boards — no scripting or complex configuration required. Most teams are up and running within minutes.
How often does Great Gadgets update its data?
Unlike other apps, Great Gadgets pulls all information directly from Jira in real time without requiring data synchronization. Data refreshes automatically based on Jira’s dashboard settings, and you can refresh a gadget manually at any time.
Does Great Gadgets support Scrum projects?
Absolutely! The app includes gadgets like the Sprint Burndown Burnup Chart, Team Velocity Chart, Release Burndown Burnup Chart and more, helping Scrum Masters and teams track sprint performance with precision.
See this article for more information on how to build a complete dashboard for your Scrum projects: https://blog.stonikbyte.com/2020/07/28/7-gadgets-for-a-powerful-scrum-dashboard-in-jira/
Does Great Gadgets offers gadgets useful for Kanban projects?
Yes! The app offers a variety of gadgets that can be used to track kanban projects such as Control Chart, Cycle Time Trend Chart, Histogram Chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram, WIP Aging Chart, WIP Run, Time in Status, Pivot Table & Pivot Chart and more.
See this article for more information on how to build a complete dashboard for your Kanban projects: https://blog.stonikbyte.com/2020/09/18/six-must-have-gadgets-for-any-kanban-dashboard-in-jira/
Does Great Gadgets support agile-at-scale or SAFe®?
Yes! Great Gadgets is a powerful tool for teams and organizations using agile-at-scale frameworks such as SAFe®. You can build powerful dashboards, to track progress across multiple teams or to track the entire project release, product increment (PI) or Agile Release Train (ART).
See this article for more information on how to track Scaled Agile projects: https://blog.stonikbyte.com/2022/02/01/how-to-track-scaled-agile-projects-in-jira-with-great-gadgets-app/
What performance metrics can I track with Great Gadgets?
With Great Gadgets you can track many performance gadgets needed in any type of project, from Scrum metrics to Kanban, SAFe® and ITSM. You can track velocity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, WIP, release progress, and more — all using configurable gadgets that pull data directly from Jira issues.
Here is a list with essential project metrics that you can track with Great Gadgets:
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Sprint Burndown and Burnup
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Release Burndown and Burnup
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Release ETA - Forecast
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Sprint Velocity
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Team Velocity
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Epic Progress
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Time In Status
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AHT, ART, TTR, MTTR, Cycle Time, Lead Time
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SLA Breaches
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Work In Progress
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Throughput/Velocity
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Workflow Stability
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Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)
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Customer Sentiment
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Cross-Team & Cross-Projects Burndown / Burnup
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Global Release Charts
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Flow Velocity / Throughput
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Flow Load & Flow Distribution
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Custom Metrics & Custom Charts
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Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts
Can I include subtasks in my burndown or velocity charts?
Yes! Unlike Jira’s native charts, the Sprint Burndown Burnup Chart, Release Burndown Burnup Chart and Team Velocity Chart allow you to include subtasks to get a more accurate view of your team’s true progress.
Can I track release progress?
Yes. The Release Burndown Burnup Chart lets you visualize the progress of the entire release. It can also generate and display a forecast, and estimate the final release date, based on the overall team velocity.
Can I track multiple projects or teams in a single chart?
Yes. With the Release Burndown Burnup Chart you can generate a cross-project or cross-team release burndown/burnup in a few steps. The Kanban Velocity Chart also lets you track the velocity across multiple teams.
See this article for more information on how to track multiple project or teams with the Release Burndown Burnup chart: https://blog.stonikbyte.com/2020/03/23/cross-project-release-burndown-chart-in-jira-with-great-gadgets-app/
What estimation methods Great Gadgets supports?
Most charts allow you to choose between multiple estimation methods such as story points, issue count, time estimate or any other numerical custom field.
Can I display data from past sprints?
Yes. Gadgets like the Sprint Burndown Burnup Chart and Team Velocity Chart can show any past sprints.
Can I visualize the WIP breaches in charts?
Yes. The WIP Run Chart gadget allows you to set a maximum and minimum WIP limit for your items. It then highlights in red all the items that are above or below the set limits, and displays at the top of the chart the number of the WIP Breaches. The Team Wallboard and WIP Aging Chart gadgets can also consider the WIP limits of the agile boards and highlight the WIP breaches.
Can I measure cycle time or lead time?
Yes. The Cycle Time Trend Chart, Control Chart, or Histogram Chart gadgets are highly configurable and can be set to measure either cycle time or lead time or any other similar metrics like MTTR, ATR, AHT or TTR.
See this article for more information on how to measure cycle time and lead time with Great Gadgets: https://blog.stonikbyte.com/2024/10/02/how-to-measure-cycle-time-and-lead-time-in-jira-or-confluence-with-great-gadgets-app/
Can I track SLA Breaches?
Yes. With gadgets like Control Chart, Histogram Chart and WIP Aging Chart you can visualize the breaches by setting custom thresholds that will highlight the items that breached them. With the Issue Filter Formula, Advanced Issue Filter Formula and Pivot Table & Pivot Chart you can visualize custom metrics about your SLA Breaches such as percent of total items or create multidimensional stats and charts and visualize breaches by assignee or projects.
See this article for more information on how to track SLA Breaches: https://blog.stonikbyte.com/2025/06/20/sla-breaches-in-jira-what-they-are-why-they-happen-and-how-to-track-and-prevent-them-using-great-gadgets-for-jira/
Can I track the progress at the Epic level?
Yes! With Great Gadgets you can effectively track the progress at the Epic level, as well as the progress at Initiative, Theme or Feature level. Using gadgets like the Release Burndown Burnup Chart you can display epic burndown charts to track the progress of epics along the time.
With the Pivot Table & Pivot Chart gadget you can create real-time multidimensional stats and charts to monitor the progress of epics, initiative, theme or feature and analyze them by multiple dimensions such as assignee, status category, or project.
See this articles for more information on how to track the progress at the Epic level with Great Gadgets:
Can I export data from the charts?
Yes, most gadgets have a Data Table that can be exported to a CSV format for reporting and sharing outside Jira.
Can I use a JQL query instead of a board or filter?
Yes. Almost all gadgets accept custom JQL queries for full flexibility in how data is retrieved. You can use Jira boards, saved filters and custom JQL queries as data sources for your gadgets.
Can I customize the chart colors?
Yes. The gadgets have a Color tab that lets you customize the colors as you like.
Can I display Great Gadgets charts in Confluence?
If you use Jira Cloud, must have Great Gadgets for Confluence app installed to add gadgets into Confluence pages.
If you use Jira Data Center, you can import the gadgets from Jira without the need of having Great Gadgets for Confluence installed.
Can I share dashboards that contain Great Gadgets charts?
Yes, as long as the person you are sharing the dashboard with has access to the projects and filters that contains the work items displayed by the gadgets.