The reports that appear depend on the type of content and information that’s within your Jira platform board. Here are three steps to help you generate a Jira report:

1. Click Reports
   The first step to generating a Jira report is to navigate to the board that you want to see a report for. If you have multiple boards, then you may need to scroll through until you find the one you need insights about. Generally, the last report you looked at is on display. After you identify the board you need, click Reports.
2. Click Switch Reports
   The next step is to click Switch Reports. Clicking this button allows you to view different reports. The default reports in this list are for agile development projects. Simply scroll through the list until you find the report that you want and then click on it one time to generate and display it on your screen.
3. Click All Reports
   If there are reports you want to view that are not agile development related, like Scrum or Kanban, you can select All reports, accessible through the Switch Reports drop-down tab. This allows you to view Jira reports not in the Agile section. Simply navigate through the list until you find the one you want and then click on it to generate it.
   Types of Jira reports
   Here are different types of Jira reports to consider:
   Agile reports for scrum teams
   Burndown chart report: The burndown chart measures how much work remains and projects how likely a team can achieve their sprint goals.
   Cumulative flow diagram report: The cumulative flow diagram report displays the current status of various issues over time, helping to identify bottlenecks so you can resolve them quickly.
   Version report: The version report displays the projected release date for a specific version of the software, helping you to keep track of a version’s progress and take action to ensure it releases on time.
   Sprint report: The sprint report shows complete and incomplete wok for each sprint, helping a team identify if they need to make adjustments to their process.
   Velocity chart report: This report tracks how much work you completed between sprints and helps you determine how fast the team is working.
   Related: Definitive Guide To Scrum Development
   Agile reports for kanban teams
   Control chart report: The control chart displays cycle time for your various sprints and product versions, helping you find and use current data for future performance initiatives.
   Created vs. resolved issues report: This report shows you a comparison between created issues and resolved issues over a specific amount of time, helping you determine whether backlogs are shrinking or expanding.
   Pie chart report: This kind of report uses a pie chart visualization to show a breakdown of issues, helping you to identify the most critical concerns and make plans to resolve them.
   Average age report: This report shows the average age of any issues that are unresolved regarding the project, which helps you manage and address any work in still left in the backlog.
   Related: Kanban Project Management: What It Is and How To Implement It
   Forecasting and management reports
   User workload report: This report shows a time estimate for how many unresolved issues are left for a user, showing how much work they need to complete or if they need assistance.
   Version workload report: You can use this report to review how much incomplete work there is for a user and issue, helping you to assess what work still remains for a particular version of the development.
   Time tracking report: This report displays the original time and current time estimates for project issues so you can determine what steps to take towards a resolution.
   Issues analysis reports
   Time since issues report: The time since issues report track the number of issues created, updated, resolved and modified over a specific amount of time.
   Recently created issue report: This report shows you how many issues created in recent time over a specific period and how many become resolved.
   Single level group by report: This report helps you to search for specific results using the field and then review the status of other groups.
   Resolution time report: The resolution time report shows you the average amount of time ti takes to resolve issues.
   Features of a Jira report
   The most common features of a Jira report include:
   Custom filters and gadgets
   Integration tools for developers so they can trace their work from start to finish
   3000 + applications to improve actions
   Customizable workflows
   Mobile compatibility
   Dashboard feature to combine reports and charts on one screen for viewing
   Many data visualization options
   Report metrics
   Time tracking functionality
   Historic searches and trends
   Customizable layouts
   Related: What Is Data Visualization: Definition, Types and Tools
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   Example situations when generating a Jira report is helpful
   Here are some example situations when generating a jira report is useful:
   Keep track of sprints
   Example: A team is developing an interactive mobile application customers can use to track the location of their pets. They are using the scrum methodology to help them optimize their performance with greater communication and workflow flexibility. The project manager sees that the project is a little behind schedule and wants to gain a more accurate reading on the workflows that still remain. For this purpose, they might use a burndown chart report to see how much work is left towards the next sprint. A sprint report is also useful in showing them the sprints that are complete and incomplete.
   Review how many issues still remain
   Example: A large team is collaborating with another team to develop a new desktop software. The two teams are struggling to work together in a cohesive manner and so one of the project development managers wants to asses how many issues are still ongoing. In order to gather this information, they might generate a pie chart report to get an in-depth breakdown of the current issues. They could also generate an average age report to asses the general time that ongoing issues have been sitting unresolved. This is a collaborative effort, so single level group by report can help also.