2 posts tagged with "Flowchart"

Jira issues are where your team tracks bugs, features, and tasks every day. But describing complex processes, API interactions, or system designs in plain text often leads to confusion and misalignment. Mermaid Plus Diagrams for Jira solves this by letting you create and embed Mermaid diagrams directly on any Jira issue, so the visual context lives exactly where the work happens. No external tools, no attached images that go stale, no switching between tabs.

Every engineering team needs diagrams in Jira — architecture decisions on epics, bug reproduction flows on tickets, wireframes on stories. But Jira has no built-in diagramming. You either paste screenshots from external tools or install a marketplace app.

We built two diagram apps for Jira: Mermaid+ Diagrams for Jira for text-based diagrams using Mermaid syntax (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, ER models, C4 architecture), and Excalidraw Diagrams + Whiteboards for Jira for freeform drawing with 229 built-in shape libraries. In this post we compare both against every alternative on the Atlassian Marketplace.