Atlassian Jira Webhooks

specification: API Commons Webhooks
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Atlassian Jira
providerId: atlassian-jira
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/webhooks/
asyncapi_published: false
asyncapi_note: |
  Atlassian publishes a real, well-documented Jira webhook surface but no AsyncAPI document for it.
  /asyncapi.yaml and /cloud/jira/platform/asyncapi.yaml both 404 on developer.atlassian.com. Nothing is
  generated here in its place — this file is the webhook catalog, not a synthesized AsyncAPI.
transport: https-webhook
payload_format: application/json
registration:
- method: rest-dynamic
  operation: POST /rest/api/3/webhook
  audience: Atlassian Connect apps and OAuth 2.0 (3LO) apps
  limits:
  - Connect apps: maximum 100 webhooks per app per tenant
  - OAuth 2.0 apps: maximum 5 webhooks per app per user
  expiry: Dynamic webhooks expire after 30 days and must be refreshed via PUT /rest/api/3/webhook/refresh
- method: rest-v1
  operation: POST /rest/webhooks/1.0/webhook
  audience: Integrations that are neither Connect nor OAuth 2.0 apps
- method: app-descriptor
  audience: Atlassian Connect apps declaring webhooks statically in the descriptor
- method: admin-ui
  audience: Jira site administrators registering a webhook by hand
security:
- audience: Atlassian Connect apps
  mechanism: Payload signed with the app's sharedSecret
- audience: OAuth 2.0 apps
  mechanism: Bearer token in the Authorization header, signed with the app's client secret
- audience: Admin-registered webhooks
  mechanism: Optional shared secret producing an HMAC in the X-Hub-Signature header, WebSub
    `method=signature` form
delivery_headers:
- X-Atlassian-Webhook-Identifier
- X-Atlassian-Webhook-Retry
- X-Atlassian-Webhook-Flow
- X-Hub-Signature
payload_envelope:
  fields:
  - timestamp
  - webhookEvent
  - issue (REST issue shape)
  - user (condensed user shape, without locale, emailAddress or groups)
  - changelog (on update events only)
  - comment (on comment events)
event_groups:
- name: Issue
  events: [jira:issue_created, jira:issue_updated, jira:issue_deleted]
- name: Comment
  events: [comment_created, comment_updated, comment_deleted]
- name: Worklog
  events: [worklog_created, worklog_updated, worklog_deleted]
- name: Project
  events: [project_created, project_updated, project_deleted]
- name: Version
  events: [jira:version_created, jira:version_updated, jira:version_released, jira:version_unreleased,
    jira:version_deleted, jira:version_moved]
- name: Sprint
  events: [sprint_created, sprint_started, sprint_closed, sprint_updated, sprint_deleted]
- name: Board
  events: [board_created, board_updated, board_deleted, board_configuration_changed]
- name: User
  events: [user_created, user_updated, user_deleted]
- name: Issue link
  events: [issuelink_created, issuelink_deleted]
- name: Attachment
  events: [attachment_created, attachment_deleted]
- name: Issue property
  events: [issue_property_set, issue_property_deleted]
- name: Filter
  events: [filter_created, filter_updated, filter_deleted]
- name: Issue type
  events: [issuetype_created, issuetype_updated, issuetype_deleted]
- name: Other documented groups
  events: []
  note: |
    Atlassian's webhook reference also documents System Configuration, Jira Expressions and additional
    platform event groups. Only the event names read directly from the reference are enumerated above;
    the remaining group names are recorded without inventing member event strings.
event_group_count: 14
completeness: partial
completeness_note: |
  The event names above are the ones the Jira webhook reference states verbatim. The reference is
  organised by group and does not enumerate every string on one page, so this catalog is a documented
  subset rather than an exhaustive list. It is marked partial deliberately.
docs:
- https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/webhooks/
- https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/modules/webhook/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com