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Track Spent Time

Last modified: 12 June 2024

Time Tracking is a standard feature in YouTrack. If you want to learn the fundamentals, read the Time Tracking Tutorial. Here’s a brief overview.

This feature lets you quantify the effort that is invested into an issue. This effort is recorded in work items. Each work item logs the amount of time spent working on an issue. These work items can be assigned different categories, like development, testing, or any other type of activity that you want to aggregate and track.

Time tracking data is recorded in custom fields:

By analyzing the difference between the values in these fields, you can measure the overall performance of your team.

Time tracking can also be used without estimations when you just want to record your activity in billable hours.

By default, these fields store values as a period. Period custom fields represent intervals of time in a human-readable form, so you record the estimation and view spent time in a number of weeks, days, and hours. The number of working days per week and working hours per day are configured at the global level. If you change these settings, the calculations are updated accordingly. For more information, see Time Tracking.