Can you see when someone starts or stops watching a project?

[Ashley Stewart]

Someone was accused of removing a coworker from a thread so he'd be left out of the loop, and I'm looking for documentation. Does JIRA track that, and if so, how do I access it?

Thank you!

[Mike Rathwell]

Hi @Ashley Stewart 

I was curious about that myself when you asked so I tried a handful of things on my test instance.

Short answer is that I saw that the ticket was updated but not WHAT was updated when I changed the watchers field. However, I have another custom field similar to "watchers" that I use for other things called "Collaborators" (multi user field). When I update that one, I see it show up in the history tab for the ticket including the person who made the change and what the change was. 

Perhaps if this might be a "thing" in your world there, it might be a good idea to make such a field and use that.

[Ashley Stewart]

Hmmm... I have a pretty dumbed down version of JIRA as my company's needs are pretty simple. I don't see a Collaborators field.  Thank you so much for your reply, though!

[Mike Rathwell]

Hi @Ashley Stewart 

No... that field is NOT in Jira out of the box. I created that field as a custom field for that purpose..

Once you make that you'd be away