How do you display data from scripts?

[Sara Creenan (M&T)]

What is the recommended way to display data from scripts ? Is there a way to show it in jira dashboards? Do you use systems outside of the tool? Any ideas?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What "scripts"?

That's rather a blunt question, not helpful in itself, but it does at least get us started.  I write scripts all the time to do all sorts of things (poking results I care about into either Slack or Jira depending on which is more appropriate)  Not just scripts for Atlassian software - anything I think I'm doing that starts to feel repetitive - script it.

From your question, I'd say you're doing the right thing, but you want to see the results of some of the scripts you have. 

So our question is has to be what data you are generating and that should lead us to the best place to store it.  If you want to use Jira reporting, then 99 times out of 100, you will want to get the data on to issues, as almost all the reporting in Jira is issue based.