Guide · Jira Cloud

Find overdue, stuck, and stale work with JQL

Native JQL is strong, but “issues stuck longer than N days” and similar ops checks are painful to keep correct. A small set of dedicated functions makes those filters reusable in boards, filters, and dashboards.

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01 — The gap

Why ops JQL gets messy

Overdue, idle, and stale work usually needs date math plus status history. Hand-built JQL is easy to break when workflows change. Teams copy filters between projects and slowly diverge.

02 — What buyers usually want

Reusable functions, not one-off queries

  1. Overdue work relative to due date without brittle nested dates.
  2. Stuck / idle issues that have not moved for N days.
  3. Stale items for backlog hygiene reviews.
  4. Drop into filters and boards the same way as native JQL functions.
  5. Try free for 30 days, then paid from about USD 20/mo for teams of 10.

03 — Tooling

JQL Extensions Library

JQL Extensions Library is a Forge app with 31 JQL functions aimed at overdue, stuck, and stale work on Jira Cloud. It is not a ScriptRunner replacement for every scripting use case — it is the ops-focused function pack.

Marketplace listing: JQL Extensions Library. Support: info@berkly.nl.

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