Is There a Way to Trigger Webhook Only on Issue Status Change — Not Update?

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Hey everyone,

I’m currently working with Jira Cloud tool and need to trigger a webhook only when an issue status changes (e.g., from To Do → In Progress), not when other fields like comments or custom fields are updated.

I’ve tried filtering inside my webhook handler, but wondering if there’s a built-in way to restrict the webhook trigger to status changes only—maybe via a workflow post function or Forge listener?

Anyone run into this before? What’s the cleanest way to do this without overloading the webhook receiver?

Cheers,
— Jhonn Mick

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Is there a way to trigger webhook only on Issue Status change — not update?

Nope. A change in the Issue’s status is just an update to the Issue.

Yes, you could add a custom event to the Issue’s transition workflow that went to a custom webhook listener, but that would need to be configured for every single transition workflow for every issue type for every single project. Very, very messy!

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Can’t automations be do to do that?

In automations you can set which field is updated.