How to programatically check when Jira restarted?

[PNG Jira Lead]

Without using the Jira User Interface,

how can I get the Jira uptime, ideally using the API, but if that's not possible then some other way via a script

The purpose:

• We schedule OS updates and so this is automated planned maintenance.
• We expect the OS - and therefore Jira - to be restarted between two datetime points (e.g. 2nd Tuesday, 10pm-11pm-Europe)
• We'd like to programatically test for this (currently it's a manual task)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Jira does not directly look at this, you'll need to read it from the application logs (<jira-home>/logs/atlassian-jira.log is the best one to scan, it contains something like "<date><time>Jira successfully started" and a message about stopping if you shut it down cleanly)

[PNG Jira Lead]

cheers @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

(sorry for the delayed response: swamped, the usual story...)

looks like "Stopping launchers" is the first logline that is written at the start of the shutdown event.