The document discusses the advantages of using Jira Data Center, emphasizing its ability to reduce outages and improve scalability, which ultimately leads to better performance and peace of mind for users and administrators. Matt Doar, a senior Jira administrator at LinkedIn, shares insights on hardware requirements, operational strategies like rolling restarts, and cost implications associated with Jira outages. The overall message highlights improved reliability and user experience with Jira Data Center compared to previous setups.

1. MATT DOAR | SENIOR JIRA ADMINISTRATOR | LINKEDIN
How Data Center Can
Help You Sleep Better

2. The Story So Far

3. This is the story of what
happened next

4. But first, the prequelBut first, the prequel

5. "The Day My Jira Caught Fire"

6. Hardware Specs
Bare metal
256 GB memory
32 CPU cores
1TB SSD storage

7. cp -r src_dir tgt_dir
BEFORE DATA CENTER

8. The disk controller caught fire

9. Failover!
DISASTER RECOVERY

10. But that was a long day
PERSONAL
and I didn't sleep well that night

11. Jira Data Center ===
Far Fewer Failovers
PERSONAL

13. BEFORE AFTER

14. Issues
4 million
Custom Fields
>1200
Some LinkedIn Jira Statistics
001

15. 70 GB
Lucene index files

17. Did we see fewer outages?
Could Jira Data Center scale?
Is the cost worth it?

18. Yes.
USERS

19. USERS
The reputation of
Jira at LinkedIn
changed
dramatically

20. Did we see fewer outages?
Could Jira Data Center scale?
Is the cost worth it?

21. Yes.
ADMINS

22. Spiky
What people remember

23. Less spiky

24. ADMINS
More consistent
page load times
make apps seem
faster

25. ADMINS
How did we
prove it
could scale?

26. Did we see fewer outages?
Could Jira Data Center scale?
Is the cost worth it?

27. Yes. *
* I am not a CFO
CFOS

28. What does a Jira outage "cost"
your teams in disrupted work?
More than you think
CFOS

29. So how much does a day's Jira
outage cost, at scale?
CFOS

30. CFOS

31. Probably more than a
developer for a year

32. Did we see fewer outages?
Could Jira Data Center scale?
Is the cost worth it?

33. What else helps us to run
Jira Data Center?

34. Rolling
Restarts

36. Rolling restarts are how
to use Jira Data Center to
avoid outages
TIP

37. Reindex the whole of Jira
NODE-SPECIFIC OPERATION
This can take a while

38. How will our Jira change in the
next year?

39. More Jira Projects
That's Easy!
More Custom FieldsMore Issues
001

40. Governance
Image from Greg Girard https://sometimes-interesting.com/2011/06/28

41. Outages

42. Authentication
No-one can log in
What Outages Might Happen Next?
Network Storage
Where are my
attachments?
Database
Just like any other
service

43. Make sure you have a Jira
admin user defined in
your internal directory
TIP

44. Plans for those challenges?
FUTURE

45. REST APIs
Monitoring
Test Issues
(Synthetic Monitoring)
Java VM

46. JVM Monitoring

47. Atlassian REST APIs
rest/troubleshooting/1.0/check
rest/api/2/index/summary

48. Test IssuesFUTURE

49. Jira Data Center helps me with
High Availability and Scaling.
And sleeping well at night.
FUTURE

50. Premier Support

51. Technical
Account
Management

52. Atlassian
Solution
Partners

53. Disaster Recovery
is still mostly
up to us
The antepenultimate slide

54. Fiery Prequel
WHAT WAS COVERED
3 QuestionsTIME
Rolling Restarts
Spiky Traffic
MonitoringOutages
Reindexing

55. You will have fewer outages
if you use Jira Data Center
properly

56. Jira Data Center does actually,
in fact, help me to scale Jira
And sleep better at night

57. MATT DOAR | SENIOR JIRA ADMINISTRATOR | LINKEDIN
Thank you!