Atlassian's Data Lake Overview

A unified data lake for Atlassian and third-party data, that's secure and ready to query.

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From messy data creating more drag

Data should accelerate decision-making, not create drag. Yet, even data power users are forced to invest valuable hours manually preparing data, instead of delivering business-critical insights.

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To unified data unlocking team impact

Empower data teams with a clean, consistent view of teamwork data via an analytics-ready data lake. Sidestep the data wrangling to create more business catalysts.

Data Lake for Atlassian Cloud Enterprise

Atlassian’s Data Lake is available for Atlassian Cloud Enterprise customers of Confluence, Jira, Jira Service Management, or Teamwork Collection.

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What you get with the Data Lake

A unified, analytics-ready data lake

Fresh, pre-modeled data sourced directly from Atlassian Cloud apps, designed for reporting and analysis.

Easy blending with your warehouse or lakehouse

Integrates seamlessly with your existing data stack. No need for custom pipelines, ETL, CDC, or sync jobs.

A pre‑defined schema built for flexibility

A preset data model aligned to how work happens in Atlassian Cloud apps, with the freedom to customize.

Continuously updated data

Data is continuously updated to reflect recent work, providing a consistent foundation how work gets done.

Built-in entity relationships

Auto-defined foreign keys link together entities so you can easily report on related items and avoid manual modeling.

Working with Atlassian's Data Lake

Connecting to Atlassian data

The Analytics app is the only way to access the Data lake. As an organization admin, you can set up multiple data connections to meet the needs of different teams. Access data from Jira, Jira Service Management (including Assets and operations data), and Confluence, Focus, Goals, Projects and more!

Diagram showing Atlassian Cloud app icons feeding the Data Lake, which connects up to the Analytics app for data visualization, AI insights, embedded views, visual SQL, and scheduled reports
Diagram showing external data sources blending with Atlassian Cloud app data through the Data Lake into the Analytics app

Connecting external data sources

With Analytics, you can connect data from external data sources and blend with Atlassian Cloud data for richer insights. Compare development and IT metrics with important business data, including revenue, user experience, resource allocation, financial projects, and more!

Enhanced data access and permissions

Control whether you want to include all data, or partial data as part of your Data Lake connection and manage which teams have access to query the data.

Screenshot of the Data Lake connection setup wizard on the Select your apps step, choosing which app instances and spaces to include
Screenshot of the Analytics app data shares screen prompting the admin to connect Atlassian data to third-party tools by creating a data share

Bring your Atlassian data into your environment and tools

Bring your Atlassian Cloud data to the internal internal workflows and reporting your teams are already familiar with. Organization admins can use the Analytics app to create data shares to read and export your Jira data directly to your environment and BI tools.

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