Label Governance & Cleanup for Jira
Find, merge and retire Jira labels before they sprawl.
Labels multiply across projects until filters and reports stop meaning anything. Label Governance & Cleanup shows how every label is used and lets admins merge, rename and delete in bulk.
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Label sprawl makes every filter a little less true.
It starts innocently: “backend”, “back-end” and “BE” on three different projects. A year later there are hundreds of labels, nobody knows which are safe to touch, and every filter is quietly missing issues.
Cleaning up by hand means editing issues one at a time, so it rarely happens, and the sprawl wins.
Best for
- Jira administrators
- Project administrators
- Engineering managers
One audit view, bulk cleanup, working filters.
See how labels are used across projects, surface the unused and the duplicates, and merge, rename or delete in bulk. Every bulk change applies to all affected issues at once.
Three steps from setup to result.
Audit label usage
Review every label across your projects, with usage counts that show what is actually in play.
Find duplicates and dead weight
Unused and near-duplicate labels are surfaced so cleanup starts with the obvious wins.
Merge, rename or delete in bulk
Apply changes across all affected issues at once; no one-at-a-time editing.
What this app helps your team do.
Cross-project audit
See label usage across projects in a single view.
Bulk merge, rename and delete
Consolidate labels across many issues in one action.
Unused and duplicate detection
Surface labels that are never used or mean the same thing.
Limits and requirements, explained upfront.
- Admin-oriented tool; bulk changes affect many issues at once and should be reviewed before applying.
- Jira Cloud only.
- Merging and deleting labels changes issue data; there is no undo beyond re-applying labels.
What setup and ongoing management look like.
Label governance is an admin surface: review the audit, check the affected issues, then apply bulk changes. The app reads and writes issue labels through Forge APIs and keeps no separate label database; labels live in Jira. Uninstalling simply removes the tool.
What the app can access, and why.
Check the app's runtime, permissions, storage and external connections before enabling it. These details are specific to this app.
Label Governance & Cleanup runs on Atlassian Forge with zero external network egress; computation and storage stay inside your Atlassian cloud tenant.
- Runs on
- Atlassian Forge; the app runs inside Atlassian's cloud platform.
- Reads
- Issues and their labels across the projects you audit, through Forge APIs.
- Can change
- Issue labels: when you merge, rename or delete, the change is applied to the affected issues.
- Stores
- No label data of its own; audit results are computed from live issue data.
- Storage location
- Any app configuration stays in Forge storage inside your Atlassian cloud tenant.
- External connections
- None; zero external network egress.
- Data retention
- The app stores no label copies; there is nothing to retain beyond configuration.
- AI use
- None.
Pricing will appear with the marketplace listing.
This app is not yet publicly available. Current pricing and billing terms will appear here after its marketplace listing is live.
Support from the people responsible for the app.
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