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Astrolink

Astrolink

Overview

Astrolink is an Atlassian Forge app for Jira Cloud that visualizes your work item connections as an interactive star map. See every relationship between work items, epics, subtasks, Confluence pages, and external resources — rendered as a beautiful force-directed graph directly in your Jira issue panel.

Astrolink traverses links and hierarchies up to 5 levels deep and across projects, revealing hidden dependencies, blockers, and relationships that boards and lists cannot show. Navigate to any connected work item with a single click — no matter which project it lives in.

Why Astrolink?

Challenge

How Astrolink Helps

Challenge

How Astrolink Helps

"I can’t see how my work items are connected"

Instantly visualize every link, hierarchy, and dependency radiating from any work item in a beautiful interactive star map.

"Dependencies are spread across multiple projects"

Astrolink crosses project boundaries automatically. See connections to work items in any project, Confluence pages, and external URLs.

"I don’t know what’s blocking what"

Color-coded link types make blockers and critical paths immediately visible at a glance.

"Our issue map is too complex to understand"

Powerful filtering by type, status, assignee, label, project, or link type. Shrink subtasks. Search nodes instantly.

"I need to present our work structure to stakeholders"

Multiple themes (including High Contrast for projectors), fullscreen mode, and customizable node styles.

"I want to see how things evolved over time"

Built-in timeline replays how your network of work items grew, with adjustable playback speed.

"Our JPD ideas feel disconnected from delivery"

Jira Product Discovery ideas linked to delivery tickets appear naturally in the graph. See the full chain from idea to implementation.

Who Is This For?

Any Jira user can use Astrolink. It appears as a panel on every issue.

Role

Use Case

Role

Use Case

Developers

Understand the full dependency chain before starting work. See what blocks you and what you block.

Project Managers

Visualize project structure, identify bottlenecks, and present work relationships to stakeholders.

Scrum Masters

Identify cross-team dependencies during sprint planning. Spot disconnected work items.

Product Owners

See the full scope of an epic or initiative, including all linked work across projects.

Product Discovery Teams

Visualize how JPD ideas connect to delivery tickets, epics, and implementation work.

Key Features

  • Interactive Star Map — Zoom, pan, drag, and click to navigate. Explore your work item network visually.

  • Deep Traversal — Follows links, hierarchies, epics, and subtasks up to 5 levels deep across projects.

  • Cross-Project Navigation — Click any node to navigate directly to that work item, regardless of project.

  • Jira Product Discovery — JPD ideas linked to delivery tickets appear naturally in the graph.

  • Confluence & External Links — Linked Confluence pages and external URLs shown as distinct nodes.

  • Powerful Filtering — Filter by issue type, status, assignee, label, project, or link type. All combinable.

  • Real-Time Search — Highlight matching nodes as you type.

  • 5 Themes — Dark, Light, Sky, High Contrast, and Sunset.

  • 5 Node Styles — Icons, Circles, Avatars, Cards, and Compact.

  • Subtask Shrinking — Toggle to render subtasks at 50% size for cleaner views.

  • Timeline Playback — Replay how your work item network grew over time.

  • Configurable Tooltips — Choose which fields appear on hover.

  • Fullscreen Mode — Expand to fill the entire screen for presentations.

  • Permission-Aware — Restricted work items appear as locked nodes with no data exposed.

Jira Product Discovery

Astrolink works with Jira Product Discovery (JPD) out of the box. Links between ideas and delivery tickets are automatically traversed, letting you visualize the full journey from product idea to implementation.

Note: Astrolink appears in the standard Jira issue panel. To view the star map for a JPD idea, open it in the standard Jira issue view.

Security & Privacy

  • Read-only access — Astrolink cannot modify any of your data.

  • No data storage — Nothing is stored on any server. User preferences are saved in your browser only.

  • Permission-aware — Work items you cannot access are shown as locked nodes with no information exposed.

  • Runs on Atlassian — Fully hosted on Atlassian infrastructure. No external data transfers.

Getting Started

After installing Astrolink, a Jira administrator needs to enable it for your projects:

  1. Open any work item in your Jira project.

  2. Click the View App Actions icon (puzzle piece) in the issue panel area.

  3. Select Astrolink from the list.

  4. Click the … (three dots) menu on the Astrolink panel header.

  5. Select Show for all work items to enable Astrolink across the project.

Once enabled, Astrolink will appear automatically on every work item in that project for all users.

Support

For questions, feedback, or issues: