Work item field limits in Jira Cloud

Summary

Jira Cloud limits the number of values allowed for certain fields within each work item.

Solution

Field limits are not configurable

This limit applies to all kinds of work items in both company-managed and team-managed projects, and is not configurable. An error response will occur if the limit is exceeded. This includes:

• Create or Update REST APIs

• Automation rules

• Transitions

Limits that apply per work item

Each work item can have up to:

• 2000 attachments

• 2000 remote links

• 2000 work item links (excluding child issues and subtasks)

• 5000 comments

• 10,000 worklogs