Update worklog

PUT

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

Updates a worklog.

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

This operation can be accessed anonymously.

Permissions required:

Browse projects project permission for the project that the issue is in.

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

Edit all worklogs project permission to update any worklog or Edit own worklogs to update worklogs created by the user.

If the 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 PUT '/rest/api/3/issue//worklog/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "comment": {
        "content": [
            {
                "content": [
                    {
                        "text": "I did some work here.",
                        "type": "text"
                    }
                ],
                "type": "paragraph"
            }
        ],
        "type": "doc",
        "version": 1
    },
    "started": "2021-01-17T12:34:00.000+0000",
    "timeSpentSeconds": 12000,
    "visibility": {
        "identifier": "276f955c-63d7-42c8-9520-92d01dca0625",
        "type": "group"
    }
}'

Response Example

{"author":{"accountId":"5b10a2844c20165700ede21g","active":false,"displayName":"Mia Krystof","self":"https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/user?accountId=5b10a2844c20165700ede21g"},"comment":{"type":"doc","version":1,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"I did some work here."}]}]},"id":"100028","issueId":"10002","self":"https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/10010/worklog/10000","started":"2021-01-17T12:34:00.000+0000","timeSpent":"3h 20m","timeSpentSeconds":12000,"updateAuthor":{"accountId":"5b10a2844c20165700ede21g","active":false,"displayName":"Mia Krystof","self":"https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/user?accountId=5b10a2844c20165700ede21g"},"updated":"2021-01-18T23:45:00.000+0000","visibility":{"identifier":"276f955c-63d7-42c8-9520-92d01dca0625","type":"group","value":"jira-developers"}}

Request

Path Params

Query Params

Body Params application/json

Examples

Responses

🟢200OK

application/json

Returned if the request is successful

Body

🟠400Bad Request

🟠401Unauthorized

🟠404Record Not Found

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

Get worklog

Get IDs of deleted worklogs