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title: Jira Connector
description: 'Access the latest issue and project updates from Jira'
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## How it works
The Jira connector pulls in all tickets from the specified projects every **10** minutes. 

## Setting up
### Authorization
    1. Follow the guide described [here](https://docs.searchunify.com/Content/Content-Sources/Atlassian-Jira-Confluence-Authentication-Create-API-Token.htm) to get an access token.

### Indexing
    1. Navigate to the Admin Dashboard and select the **Jira** Connector
    2. In **Step 1**, provide the **Access Token** and the **Username** it belongs to:

![JiraConnectorAuth](/images/connectors/jira/JiraAuth.png)

    3. For each project you want to index, provide a single URL to any page in the project. For
    example, it might look like the following:

![ConfluenceConnector](/images/connectors/jira/JiraIndex.png)

    4. Click the `Connect` button! All your Jira tickets in that space will now be pulled into Danswer every **10** minutes.