Jira always asks for re-index on all projects

[Xavier Arias]

I see the following warning on all my projects configuration:

We recommend that you perform a re-index, as configuration changes were made to 'Plugins' at 26/May/16 1:50 AM. Get help!

If you have other changes to make, complete them first so that you don't perform multiple re-indexes

I didn't make any change to Plugins, so I don't know why should I do the reindex. I've been making a lot of reindexes and I finally gave up, since they continuously popup again every once in a while.

Why is this happening? Are Plugins autoupdating?

Can I reindex all projects at once?

EDIT: I have noticed that I always perform the re-index system-wide.

[Dave Liao]

Anyone else still seeing this? I last noticed this on an Atlassian Cloud instance, btw.

[Tuukka Ilomäki]

We keep seeing it. We have done absolutely no changes in the environment (plugins or other) and still we keep getting this notification.

[Dave Liao]

I'm also noticing this.

Feature request to Atlassian: after plug-ins autoupdate nightly, allow admins to specify whether they want a background re-index to occur automatically. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, Cloud updates add-ons for you automatically.  But a lot of config actions inside add-ons can require a re-index as well, so it could be something your admins are doing.

You should be able to run a full re-index whenever you want, to cover all projects

[Xavier Arias]

I just edited my question to add that I already know how to reindex system-wide.

For the rest, this has happened a lot of times to me and it's a bit annoying.

Could I automatize the re-index process?

Also, I'm the only admin.

[Jeremy Gaudet]

We re-index every Friday evening using a cron job that reaches out to the REST api, and emails our jira-admins group.

[Xavier Arias]

For what you say, I assume you're not using JIRA cloud, so you can run cron on your machine directly.

Do you know if I can do that on JIRA cloud?

[Jeremy Gaudet]

You can run cron on any machine, and reach out to JIRA cloud via REST using curl, is my understanding.

[Bart Meerveld]

@Nic Brough [Adaptavist] what if this message appears and i'm on server? Nothing to see in the audit log too.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Same answer - a plugin update or field change means it may have an index that needs updating.