No data is shown when clicking the Confluence page header to list linked Jira issues

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Summary

When checking all Jira links attached to a Confluence Page from the page header, the loading icon rolls, and no items show up in the panel.

Environment

7.13.1

Diagnosis

The following error can be observed in atlassian-confluence.log:

1 2 3 4 5 6 WARN [JIRAMetadataPlugin:thread-7] [metadata.jira.helper.JiraMetadataErrorHelper] printError Application link 'Jira Application Link' appears to be misconfigured -- referer: confluence-page-url | url: /confluence/rest/jira-metadata/1.0/metadata | traceId: bbff07471a3a8a53 | userName: user com.atlassian.sal.api.net.ResponseStatusException: Unexpected response received. Status code: 401 at com.atlassian.applinks.core.auth.ApplicationLinksStringReturningResponseHandler.handle(ApplicationLinksStringReturningResponseHandler.java:16) at com.atlassian.applinks.core.auth.ApplicationLinksStringReturningResponseHandler.handle(ApplicationLinksStringReturningResponseHandler.java:13) at com.atlassian.applinks.oauth.auth.OAuthApplinksReturningResponseHandler.handle(OAuthApplinksReturningResponseHandler.java:50)

Cause

If you are observing the same issue from the UI and seeing similar errors in your application logs it means that your Jira Metadata Plugin has some corrupted data, and it cannot get a valid one from the application.

Solution

Since the release of Confluence 7.0, it is no longer possible to enable or disable individual modules of the bundled system apps through the Universal Plugin Manager. If you are running Confluence 7.* you can disable modules via UPM API by following Cannot enable or disable bundled system apps or modules

UPM API Option:

Use the Universal Plugin Manager API to either enable or disable it.

  1. Clear the plugins cache by following the steps in How to clear confluence plugins cache KB.

  2. Enable/disable the Jira Metadata Plugin by running the following commands.

    • Run curl command to disable it:

      1 2 3 curl --user "<USER>:<PASSWORD>" --location --request PUT '<baseURL>/rest/plugins/1.0/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-jira-metadata-key' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.atl.plugins.plugin+json' \ --data-raw '{"enabled": false}'
    • Run curl command to enable it:

      1 2 3 curl --user "<USER>:<PASSWORD>" --location --request PUT '<baseURL>/rest/plugins/1.0/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-jira-metadata-key' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.atl.plugins.plugin+json' \ --data-raw '{"enabled": true}'
Updated on March 13, 2025

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