# Jira Time Spent Reporting

Straight to insights without manual work logging

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## Expanded Jira capabilities

### Time Spent Overview

Understand the total time invested across all tasks, projects, or Epics within a defined calendar range, offering a clear picture of overall effort.

### Time Spent on Epic

Sum up the time spent across all tasks and subtasks within an Epic to provide a complete picture of effort invested.

### Time Spent per User

Understand how much time each team member spends on specific tasks or projects. Identify overburdened or underutilized team members, and enable better workload balancing.

### Time Spent in Status

Understand exactly how much time issues spend in each status ("In Progress", "Review", "Blocked"), offering a clear picture of workflow efficiency.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the difference between time spent and the original estimate?

Typically estimates are set before work begins. Spent time indicates the actual time.

### Is there a Jira gadget available?

Yes, you can add multiple gadgets with different settings for each.

### How is time spent calculated?

Our service does this automatically for you, based on Jira work logs.

### How do I make this field required?

There's no need to make it required or mandatory — everything is recorded automatically.

Time Spent reporting is one capability of the [Quantify app for Jira](/jira-integration) — see the full integration.

## Ready to get started?

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