Remove redundant permission grants
Identify and remove redundant permission grants across your Jira site. This reduces setup complexity, improves performance, and helps you stay within configuration limits, without affecting grants that are still in use.
Why you should remove redundant permission grants
Permission grants define which users, groups, or roles can perform actions or view data in Jira.
Excessive permission grants can slow down or time out core services, leading to failed permission updates and degraded reliability on large sites. Every additional grant increases the time required for permission checks, compounding into delays.
What’s considered a redundant grant?
A grant is considered unused when it meets either of the following conditions:
Single user grant: Assigned to a user with an inactive status (i.e., access is suspended).
Group grant: Assigned to a group with no members, or to a group where all members have an inactive status (i.e., access is suspended).
Remove redundant permission grants
You must be a Jira site admin to remove permission grants.
You can identify and remove redundant permission grants via your Jira admin settings.
To remove redundant permission grants:
Select Settings (), then select Work items.
In the sidebar, under Work item attributes, select Permission schemes.
Select the relevant scheme.
Select Optimize in the permission scheme page to generate a list permissions with redundant grants.
To save a copy of this list for review or record keeping, select Review actions, then select Download.
Select Remove Grants to remove the redundant grants from the scheme.
If your data has changed since the last scan (for example, after bulk changes, imports, or workflow updates), select Update scan on the Optimize screen to refresh the list of redundant grants.
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