With our STAGIL JQL Counter gadget you can see critical amounts of issues, that have accumulated, at a glance. The gadget will change its color, depending on the number of issues that are defined in a customized filter.
Enter a JQL query for the set of issues that you want to watch. Define some conditions for your important thresholds for this set of issues. The label you enter will be shown in the gadget with the number of issues, when this certain condition is met. Adjust the card and font colors and add the condition.
Here is an example of the JQL Counter gadget. The following configuration...
...shows this result for 4 incidents:
In case you are not seeing the expected amount of issues or the expected label, check your JQL query and the conditions. The conditions are checked from the top to the bottom. In case the first condition is valid, the other conditions are not checked.