Status Ribbon documentation

See any Jira issue's whole journey at a glance — how long it spent in each status, how often it bounced back, and its total cycle time. No setup, any workflow.

What it does

Open a Jira issue and you can see where it is — but not how it got there. The native History tab is a dense, reverse-chronological log of every change. Status Ribbon reads that history and draws it as a single, proportional ribbon, with four summary numbers beneath. It answers the everyday questions — "how long has this been in review?", "has this been bouncing back and forth?", "is this actually stuck?" — without you reconstructing the timeline by hand.

Getting started

  1. Install Status Ribbon onto your Jira site from the Atlassian Marketplace (a Jira admin performs the install).

  2. Open any issue.

  3. If the panel isn't already showing, add it once: in the issue's action bar click the Apps button (or the ••• menu) and select Status Ribbon. It then stays on your issues.

There's nothing to configure — no status mapping, no admin project, no settings.

Reading the ribbon

Each segment is a status the issue passed through. Its width is the time spent there, and its colour follows Jira's universal status category, so it works on any workflow regardless of your custom status names:

The labels on each segment show your real status names — Status Ribbon displays them exactly as configured, it never renames or interprets them.

The four metrics

  1. Cycle time / AgeTime from created to resolved. If the issue is still open, this shows as "Age" (created to now).

  2. Transitions - The number of status changes across the issue's life.

  3. Reopens - How many times the issue moved from a Done-category status back to a non-Done one.

  4. Longest in - The status the issue spent the most time in.

States you may see

  • A new issue with no status changes yet shows a short "no history yet" message rather than an empty ribbon.

  • An open issue shows "Age" instead of "Cycle time" and has no Done segment yet.

  • Light and dark themes are both supported; the panel follows your Jira theme.

Permissions, data and privacy

Status Ribbon runs entirely on Atlassian's infrastructure (the "Runs on Atlassian" programme). It is strictly read-only and makes no external network calls — your data never leaves Atlassian.

  • It reads only the issue you are currently viewing — its status history and a small set of fields (created date, resolution date, current status), plus your site's status definitions to map colours.

  • It stores nothing and collects no personal data.

  • It honours your existing Jira permissions: it only ever shows what the viewing user can already see.

Full details are in our privacy policy.

Support

Questions, issues or feedback? Email gary@productiversed.com and we'll get back to you.

Status Ribbon is built by Productiversed — focused apps for Jira and Confluence that turn the data your team already creates into something you can actually use. productiversed.com