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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Service-level agreement


Service-level agreement or SLA defines the agreement between the service provider and end user in terms of aspects of the service provided, such as its scope, quality, or turn-around time.

In the context of support service, an SLA will define different response times for different types of support requests. For example, severity 1 requests will have a response time of 1 hour, and severity 2 requests will have a response time of 4 hours.

JIRA Service Desk lets you define SLA requirements based on response time. You can set up the rules on how response time will be measured, and goals for each rule.

Setting up SLA

JIRA Service Desk's SLA is divided into two components, the time measurement and goals to achieve. Time can be measured for a variety of purposes. Common examples include overall time taken for request resolution and response time to customer requests. To set up SLA metric, follow these steps:

  1. Browse to the project administration page for the service desk you want...

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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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