How to see when did the worklog logged?

[İclal Aslan]

Hi,

Lets say that I logged 5 hours of work for 5 days ago but I logged that worklog today.

created date would be : 23/09/2025 and start date would be : 18/09/2025.

I want to know if anyone logged for previous months. Like in august dşd anyone logged for june and before and for september did anyone logged for july and before.

How can i get this data with API or with anyway else?

[Anton from JetHeads_io]

Hi @İclal Aslan,

That’s a pretty specific need — Jira doesn’t expose this natively, and I don’t know of an app that gives you exactly that out of the box. One workaround that can help is using JetTime: 

• In JetTime timesheets you can show the created/updated date of the log as a separate timesheet column.

• You can then filter by a month (say September) and visually scan whether any work logs have a created/updated date outside that range — that quickly shows if someone logged older work later on.

It’s not the most elegant solution, but in practice it works well for spotting back-dated work logs.

On top of that, JetTime also includes timers, Excel/CSV/PDF export, custom metrics and costs — so you cover both simple checks and advanced reporting in one place.

👉 JetTime on the Atlassian Marketplace

— Anton, JetTime founder

[Arpit G_Build To Serve]

Hi @İclal Aslan 

Jira doesn’t provide any native functionality to directly track whether users are logging work retroactively (e.g., in September logging time for July or earlier).

Out of the box, you can see worklogs with their started date and created date, but there’s no built-in reporting to compare these across months.

If you’re open to third-party apps, this is exactly the type of gap our Worklogs Timesheet app helps to solve.

With it, you can:

• Report on worklogs by both created date and started date.
• Filter and group by users, projects, or specific date ranges.
• Export detailed timesheet reports for audits or analysis. That way, you can easily see if in September someone is logging hours for July (or even earlier months)

Would you like me to show you how a sample report in our app highlights this?

P.S.: I belong to the company that developed this app.

[İclal Aslan]

Hi,

The company i worked with wants to get the data's from API or something else bc of pricing but thank you so much!

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @İclal Aslan 

There is not a native JQL function to query based on worklogs in the manner you describe.

There also is not a native report to report on worklogs per user in the manner you describe.

The API endpoints related to worklogs can be found here:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-worklogs/#api-group-issue-worklogs

None of them provide a method to search for worklogs based on the created or start date for the worklog entry. They are endpoints only for getting worklogs based on the related issue, or by providing a list of IDs for the individual worklog entries.

Are you willing to consider a third party app? There are several apps in the Atlassian Marketplace that support getting worklogs for work that occurred during a specified period, groups by the author of the worklog. I'm not sure if any of them support searching for worklogs based on both a created date range and a start date range.

[İclal Aslan]

Hello,

I am currently using Tempo's app so I can get data's but I can not see when did the log logged, created date wont shown.