How to view your logged time in Jira?

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1h for this, 2h 30min for that, a quick 15min meeting, and an unplanned urgent task that ate up another 1h 30min – plus a few more hours of focused work. By the end of the day, you feel accomplished. You gave it your all, and the progress shows.

But are you sure you’ve logged all your work hours? When was the last time you checked? You clearly remember logging the first three tasks, but after that… you were deep in the zone, too focused to think about counting minutes.

Now, as you’re about to shut down for the day, a thought hits you:
“How many hours are still missing? Was it three… or four? And did I ever log that 15-minute meeting?”

You open Jira again with a sigh. Minutes tick by as you scroll through boards, open work items, check work log history, and try to calculate the gap. The process feels like a scavenger hunt you never signed up for.

If only there was a faster, easier way.
Spoiler: there is. Here’s how.

View your logged time totals

Natively, Jira doesn’t provide any straightforward solution to this problem. Although you can log your time in work items, there is no way to view the total logged hours. Which is a bummer, honestly.

But don’t worry. To fix this you only need one app and a bunch of logs you want to view. The app in question – Time Assistant - Time Tracking and Workload Dashboard – allows you to keep an eye on all your recent work logs (daily, weekly and monthly).

To start, open the app:

You will find yourself on your personal dashboard where all your recent activities are summarized, including issues you opened, edited, commented on, etc.

On the right side of the dashboard you will see your time summary – a handy tool that will tell you what your logged time total is for the current day, week and month. It also provides you with a list of all work items you logged your hours in for these periods of time.

With time summary, you can quickly review the current status of your work logs and check if there is anything missing. If so, just click on the clock icon next to a work item to log your time. 

Your total logged time will update automatically to include the most recent time log. This way, you can easily view and control your current logged hours from one accessible dashboard, instead of combing through multiple individual work items. 

Of course, the time you’ve logged from the work item level will also be displayed on your Time Assistant dashboard and included in your totals. Rest assured, you won’t lose any minute of your work time!

Log your time automatically with timers

To make things even simpler, you can also log time automatically. Click on the ► icon that you will find next to each work item. A timer on this item will start, counting the time you spent on the task.

Once you’ve finished working on the task, stop the timer by clicking on the ⏹ icon. You will have a chance to review the counted time, and adjust it, if needed (e.g. round out 29m to 30m). 

All your unlogged timers will be displayed below the ‘Issues with logged time’ section:

You can cancel any timer without logging the time:

The automatic timer can also be accessed from a work item level:

Summary

Keeping tabs on time in Jira can be a bit of a headache since there's no built-in way to see all your logged hours. Luckily, the Time Assistant - Time Tracking and Workload Dashboard app sorts this out! It gives you your own personal dashboard with a time summary. 

This handy tool shows you your total logged time for the day, week, and month, plus a list of all the tasks you worked on. You can quickly check things over, log any time you might have missed right from the dashboard, or even use the automatic timer to track your time on tasks as you go.