Introduction
Many of us use Jira during development, and sometimes it is necessary to record our working time spent on resolving a bug or completing a task in Jira. There are a lot of various time trackers, but I want to show you a free and easy solution that will help you to track your working time in Jira.
TMetric is a time-tracking tool which helps individuals and organizations to be more productive. This time management software provides time tracking, work session monitoring, reporting tools, and integrations.
Why is TMetric now called Jira Time Tracker?
Using its rich integration feature, TMetric allows you to track your time spent on tasks and projects from Jira and other popular project management platforms such as RedMine, Asana, and Trello.
With the free version of TMetric, you receive detailed analytics (reports) of your working time in Jira during the selected period. While completing a task/issue in Jira you can also see a detailed view of your activities (visited websites and applications) while completing a task/issue in Jira.
Quick feature highlights:
- Free version
- Easy to Start
- Work Day Timeline
- Easy Task Switching
- Simple Reports
- Huge amount of integrations
Preparing to track your work time in Jira
Let's set up TMetric to capture your work time from Jira correctly. It is very easy and very fast, don't worry.
Step 1. Create a Tmetric account. It will take one minute max.
Step 2. Install a Browser extension. Depending on your browser, you can install the TMetric Chrome plugin, Tmetric Firefox plugin, and Tmetric Opera plugin.
Step 3. (optional). After registration, you can also install a time-tracking desktop app to track your work activity in detail.
Okay. Now you are all set to track issues/tasks time in Jira. Let me show you how it works.
Tracking time in Jira. How it works
Before the presentation of how it works, I may assume you already have an account in Jira and created a project in it.
Let's start by creating an issue.
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When the issue is created, it is time to start working on it and tracking your time. In the screenshot below, I show a window where you can see that there is a button called Start timer below the name of the issue.
![button called Start timer]()
Press it, and your working time will start to record in the TMetric main dashboard. You can see how it looks in a screenshot below.
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As you can see, the name of the issue is the same as it was in Jira. It is easy enough to navigate back to Jira only by pressing on Jira issue ID (in our case ID is JCAL-223).
Conclusion
From this short tutorial, you now know that tracking time in Jira is very simple. You don't need to dive deeply into specifications and documentation to use it. And it is also free.
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