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The Ronin Dashboards Connector app is a special app to easily and securely retrieve information from some Atlassian cloud products like Jira (Core, Software, Service Desk), Confluence and Bitbucket (includes Pipelines).
You do NOT need any Ronin Dashboards Connector app to start using Ronin Dashboards for Jira, but you do need a Ronin Dashboards Connector app to connect certain products. See Dashboard Integrations: Datasources for a table of to check the different available integrations and how to connect with themwhat type of datasource is needed (read first Learn about Datasources if you have no clue what we are talking about).
Ronin Dashboards Connector apps are free apps!
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