Every due date change. Tracked.
Deadline Defender is a Forge-native Jira app that captures every single change to every due date in your project — who moved it, when, what it was, what it became. Bring accountability back to your deadlines without leaving Jira.
The problem
Due dates keep moving. Nobody knows why.
Teams push due dates in Jira with no audit trail. Managers cannot see how many times a ticket has been pushed, who pushed it, or what the original deadline was. By the time a delivery slips, it is too late to act.
A typical engineering ticket gets its due date moved four or five times before delivery. Each push is a small decision — often a quick chat in Slack, a slip in standup — and each one is invisible to anyone not in the room.
Deadline Defender makes every change visible. You get to have the right conversation at the right time, instead of finding out about slippage at the end of the sprint.
Features
Everything you need for deadline accountability.
Eight focused features. No bloat. No setup. Works on your historical data the moment you install it.
Full audit log
Every due-date change, for every ticket. Who, when, from what, to what — all the way back.
Original vs current
The very first deadline alongside the current one. Side-by-side, no digging required.
Push counts
How many times each ticket has been pushed, and by how many days in total.
Top offenders
Surface the tickets and assignees with the most pushes — the conversations you need to have.
Filter and slice
Filter by assignee, date range and push status. Find exactly what you need in seconds.
Overdue indicator
Instantly see which open tickets are already past their deadline. No more surprises.
Summary insights
Average days pushed, worst single push, push rate across the whole project at a glance.
Export to CSV
Pull data into reports, client updates or spreadsheets for executive conversations.
How it works
From install to insights in under a minute.
No webhooks, no service accounts, no setup wizard. Install it. Open your project. See your audit log.
Step one
One click on the Atlassian Marketplace. The app installs into your Jira Cloud tenancy.
Step two
Deadline Defender appears as a tab on every Jira project. Works on existing tickets immediately.
Step three
Every due-date change ever made, with the original deadline, current state, and who pushed what.
Who it's for
Built for the people answering for delivery.
If you sign off on the delivery date, you need to see what is happening to it.
Project managers
Stop guessing why deliveries slip. See exactly which tickets are pushing the timeline and why.
Delivery leads
Get the data you need for client conversations. Export deadline history for status reports.
Operations teams
Build a culture of accountability. When every change is visible, hidden slippage stops.
App details
Built right, where it matters.
Atlassian Forge (Cloud only). The app runs entirely inside Atlassian's hosted runtime.
A tab on every Jira project page. No global admin install. No additional Jira modules to enable.
read:jira-work and read:jira-user. Read-only access to issue data and user display info. The app cannot modify your Jira data.
None. All data is fetched live from your Jira instance via Atlassian APIs and is never retained outside your tenancy.
30 days free. No credit card required. Billing handled by Atlassian on our behalf if you continue past the trial.
Free for 30 days · No credit card