Find the ID numbers of Jira priority field values in Jira Cloud

Summary

You can retrieve the ID numbers for each of the priorities your Jira instance uses via the Jira user interface (UI), or the REST API.

Solution

Find priority IDs from Jira UI

1. Select Settings (gear icon) > Issues

2. Navigate to Priority Schemes

3. Use the dropdown selector to check one of your priorities by name

The selected priority will be filtered for your view.

In the address bar, the ID value of that priority will be displayed. In the below example, the "High" priority has an ID of 2:

Find priority IDs from Jira REST API

Jira REST API includes an endpoint to return priority schemes and their associated priorities from your Jira instance. You can send a GET request to the endpoint /rest/api/2/priorityscheme

Within this endpoint, you'll see your priority schemes, and nested beneath each scheme will be a list of included priorities and their ID values.

For full details, please review our API documentation for this endpoint.