Count bugs under Epic

[Oded Tali]

How (if at all) is it possible to to to count by JQL - how many bugs are under specific epics 

Something like - Count (issue type = Bug and Epic Name = "My Epic")

which returns a amount of returned records 

[Antuan Sammak]

Hi @Oded Tali 

the JQL you are after should be like following:

Epic Link = "epic id" AND issue type = Bug

this will return all bugs under this epic and you will be able to easily spot the total number from query results page

[Oded Tali]

Thanks for the response 

I know the above, but I am looking for reteriving the count of JQL (or other way)

 To be more accurate : I want to have a calculated field in Epic level which will retrive automatically how many bugs are linked to Epic for Example (dashobard table) 

Epics name	Defects
Epic 0001	33
Epic 0002	42
Epic 0003	21

[Antuan Sammak]

using Jira built in features, you can use automation to get the above count and to be more specific you need to use {{lookupIssues.size}} 

here is a post that explains the same case https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-Server-questions/Using-the-lookupIssues-to-find-number-of-issues-in-an-Epic/qaq-p/1681084