JQL to List Comments

[Jennifer Bader]

What would be the JQL for a filter to list out comments made by a specific user, whether they are internal notes or public comments? And across all projects.

I've tried the below, but it seems to be missing some comments:

comment ~ "john doe" ORDER BY created DESC

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Jennifer Bader 

There is no JQL that will give you a list of comments.

JQL is intended to retrieve issue, not comments.

The JQL you have show above will give you a list of issues that have at least one comment that includes "john doe" in the text of the comment.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/jql-fields/#Comment

With only native filtering capabilities there is also no method to filter issues based on Comment Author.  You would need a third party app to add that capability to JQL.