Jira Transformation dbt Package (Docs)
- Produces modeled tables that leverage Jira data from Fivetran's connector in the format described by this ERD and builds off the output of our Jira source package.
- Enables you to better understand the workload, performance, and velocity of your team's work using Jira issues. It performs the following actions:
- Creates a daily issue history table so you can quickly create agile reports, such as burndown charts, along any issue field.
- Enriches the core issue table with relevant data regarding its workflow and current state.
- Aggregates bandwidth and issue velocity metrics along projects and users.
- Generates a comprehensive data dictionary of your source and modeled Jira data through the dbt docs site.
The following table provides a detailed list of all models materialized within this package by default.
TIP: See more details about these models in the package's dbt docs site.
Model | Description |
---|---|
jira__daily_issue_field_history | Each record represents a day in which an issue remained open, enriched with data about the issue's sprint, its status, and the values of any fields specified by the issue_field_history_columns variable. |
jira__issue_enhanced | Each record represents a Jira issue, enriched with data about its current assignee, reporter, sprint, epic, project, resolution, issue type, priority, and status. It also includes metrics reflecting assignments, sprint rollovers, and re-openings of the issue. Note that all epics are considered issues in Jira and are therefore included in this model (where issue_type='epic' ). |
jira__project_enhanced | Each record represents a project, enriched with data about the users involved, how many issues have been opened or closed, the velocity of work, and the breadth of the project (i.e., its components and epics). |
jira__user_enhanced | Each record represents a user, enriched with metrics regarding their open issues, completed issues, the projects they work on, and the velocity of their work. |
To use this dbt package, you must have the following:
- At least one Fivetran Jira connector syncing data into your destination.
- A BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or PostgreSQL destination.
If you are using a Databricks destination with this package you will need to add the below (or a variation of the below) dispatch configuration within your dbt_project.yml
. This is required in order for the package to accurately search for macros within the dbt-labs/spark_utils
then the dbt-labs/dbt_utils
packages respectively.
dispatch:
- macro_namespace: dbt_utils
search_order: ['spark_utils', 'dbt_utils']
Models in this package that are materialized incrementally are configured to work with the different strategies available to each supported warehouse.
For BigQuery and Databricks All Purpose Cluster runtime destinations, we have chosen insert_overwrite
as the default strategy, which benefits from the partitioning capability.
For Databricks SQL Warehouse destinations, models are materialized as tables without support for incremental runs.
For Snowflake, Redshift, and Postgres databases, we have chosen delete+insert
as the default strategy.
Regardless of strategy, we recommend that users periodically run a
--full-refresh
to ensure a high level of data quality.
Include the following jira package version in your packages.yml
file:
TIP: Check dbt Hub for the latest installation instructions or read the dbt docs for more information on installing packages.
packages:
- package: fivetran/jira
version: [">=0.17.0", "<0.18.0"]
By default, this package runs using your destination and the jira
schema. If this is not where your Jira data is (for example, if your Jira schema is named jira_fivetran
), add the following configuration to your root dbt_project.yml
file:
vars:
jira_database: your_destination_name
jira_schema: your_schema_name
Your Jira connector may not sync every table that this package expects. If you do not have the SPRINT
, COMPONENT
, or VERSION
tables synced, add the respective variables to your root dbt_project.yml
file. Additionally, if you want to remove comment aggregations from your jira__issue_enhanced
model, add the jira_include_comments
variable to your root dbt_project.yml
:
vars:
jira_using_sprints: false # Disable if you do not have the sprint table or do not want sprint-related metrics reported
jira_using_components: false # Disable if you do not have the component table or do not want component-related metrics reported
jira_using_versions: false # Disable if you do not have the versions table or do not want versions-related metrics reported
jira_using_priorities: false # disable if you are not using priorities in Jira
jira_include_comments: false # This package aggregates issue comments so that you have a single view of all your comments in the jira__issue_enhanced table. This can cause limit errors if you have a large dataset. Disable to remove this functionality.
The jira__daily_issue_field_history
model generates historical data for the columns specified by the issue_field_history_columns
variable. By default, the only columns tracked are status
, status_id
, and sprint
, but all fields found in the Jira FIELD
table's field_name
column can be included in this model. The most recent value of any tracked column is also captured in jira__issue_enhanced
.
If you would like to change these columns, add the following configuration to your dbt_project.yml
file. After adding the columns to your dbt_project.yml
file, run the dbt run --full-refresh
command to fully refresh any existing models:
IMPORTANT: If you wish to use a custom field, be sure to list the
field_name
and not thefield_id
. The correspondingfield_name
can be found in thestg_jira__field
model.
vars:
issue_field_history_columns: ['the', 'list', 'of', 'field', 'names']
This package provides the option to use field_name
instead of field_id
as the field-grain for issue field history transformations. By default, the package strictly partitions and joins issue field data using field_id
. However, this assumes that it is impossible to have fields with the same name in Jira. For instance, it is very easy to create another Sprint
field, and different Jira users across your organization may choose the wrong or inconsistent version of the field. As such, the jira_field_grain
variable may be adjusted to change the field-grain behavior of the issue field history models. You may adjust the variable using the following configuration in your root dbt_project.yml.
vars:
jira_field_grain: 'field_name' # field_id by default
This packages allows you the option to utilize a buffer variable to bring in issues past their date of close. This is because issues can be left unresolved past that date. This buffer variable ensures that this daily issue history will not cut off field updates to these particular issues.
You may adjust the variable using the following configuration in your root dbt_project.yml
.
vars:
jira_issue_history_buffer: insert_number_of_months # 1 by default
By default, this package builds the Jira staging models within a schema titled (<target_schema>
+ _jira_source
) and your Jira modeling models within a schema titled (<target_schema>
+ _jira
) in your destination. If this is not where you would like your Jira data to be written to, add the following configuration to your root dbt_project.yml
file:
models:
jira_source:
+schema: my_new_schema_name # leave blank for just the target_schema
jira:
+schema: my_new_schema_name # leave blank for just the target_schema
If an individual source table has a different name than the package expects, add the table name as it appears in your destination to the respective variable:
IMPORTANT: See this project's
dbt_project.yml
variable declarations to see the expected names.
vars:
jira_<default_source_table_name>_identifier: your_table_name
Records from the source can sometimes arrive late. Since several of the models in this package are incremental, by default we look back 3 days to ensure late arrivals are captured while avoiding the need for frequent full refreshes. While the frequency can be reduced, we still recommend running dbt --full-refresh
periodically to maintain data quality of the models.
To change the default lookback window, add the following variable to your dbt_project.yml
file:
vars:
jira:
lookback_window: number_of_days # default is 3
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This dbt package is dependent on the following dbt packages. Please be aware that these dependencies are installed by default within this package. For more information on the following packages, refer to the dbt hub site.
IMPORTANT: If you have any of these dependent packages in your own
packages.yml
file, we highly recommend that you remove them from your rootpackages.yml
to avoid package version conflicts.
packages:
- package: fivetran/jira_source
version: [">=0.7.0", "<0.8.0"]
- package: fivetran/fivetran_utils
version: [">=0.4.0", "<0.5.0"]
- package: dbt-labs/dbt_utils
version: [">=1.0.0", "<2.0.0"]
- package: dbt-labs/spark_utils
version: [">=0.3.0", "<0.4.0"]
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