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I'm trying to create a page that will show me how many incidents have happened within a month via the Jira api, I'm not sure the best way to fo this as I have looked through the jira api docs but that is not described within.

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  • I have an array being returned but I'm not sure how to only get this information ' `Array ( [expand] => schema,names [startAt] => 0 [maxResults] => 5 [total] => 840 [issues] => Array (` I want to pull back the total amount of incidents. – Zextia Feb 29 '16 at 12:30
  • The `total` (numeric) is how many "incidents" were found. The `startAt` and `maxResults` are for the paging. In your example, the answer is: 840. – Koshinae Feb 29 '16 at 15:24

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If by "how many incidents happened" you mean "how many issues were created" you can do a JQL search, which gives you a total count of issues within specified JQL query.

So to find issues created in February 2016 you should use the following JQL: created >= 2016-02-01 AND created <= 2016-02-29. The REST API endpoint that lets you perform a JQL search is /api/2/search.

In our example (issues created in February) you need to send a GET request to:

{YOUR_JIRA_BASE_URL}/rest/api/2/search?jql=created%20>=%202016-02-01%20AND%20created%20<=%202016-02-29

(don't forget to properly encode the query string)

To save bandwidth you can discard issues data and retrieve only the count by adding a maxResults parameter set to 0:

{YOUR_JIRA_BASE_URL}/rest/api/2/search?maxResults=0&jql=created%20>=%202016-02-01%20AND%20created%20<=%202016-02-29

Here's a concrete example using the Apache's JIRA: Issues created in February

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JQL is quite powerful so you can narrow down your search even further (e.g. specify project to count the issues for). Read more about it here and here

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