Bulk delete worklogs

DELETE

/rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/worklog

Deletes a list of worklogs from an issue. This is an experimental API with limitations:

You can't delete more than 5000 worklogs at once.

No notifications will be sent for deleted worklogs.

Time tracking must be enabled in Jira, otherwise this operation returns an error. For more information, see Configuring time tracking.

Permissions required:

Browse projects project permission for the project containing the issue.

If issue-level security is configured, issue-level security permission to view the issue.

Delete all worklogs project permission to delete any worklog.

If any worklog has visibility restrictions, belongs to the group or has the role visibility is restricted to.

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request DELETE '/rest/api/3/issue//worklog' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "ids": [
        1,
        2,
        5,
        10
    ]
}'

Request

Path Params

Query Params

Body Params application/json

Examples

Responses

🟢200OK

Returned if the bulk deletion request was partially successful, with a message indicating partial success.

This response does not have a body.

🟢204No Content

🟠400Bad Request

🟠401Unauthorized

🟠404Record Not Found

Modified at 2025-07-16 07:18:01

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