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Create and Manage Tickets in Drata (New Experience)

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💡 Still using the classic Drata experience? Refer to Create Tickets for ServiceNow, Asana, Basecamp, Bitbucket, Freshdesk, Freshservice, Height, Hive, Teamwork, Wrike, Zendesk, Aha!, or GitLab Issues for the original UI.

Managing security compliance often requires collaboration across teams. Drata makes this easier by integrating with the ticketing tools your organization already uses.

By connecting a supported ticketing integration with Write Access enabled, you can create and manage tickets for:

  • Controls (DCF and Custom)

  • Monitoring Tests

  • Risks (in Risk Management)

Tickets created in Drata remain accessible both in Drata and in your connected ticketing system.


How Ticketing Works in Drata

Ticketing in Drata allows compliance and security teams to track remediation work directly from the Control, Test, or Risk where the issue originates. Tickets help you:

  • Assign work to the right team

  • Track remediation progress

  • Centralize evidence for audit readiness

  • Reduce manual follow-up across tools

Action

Who can do it

Set up or edit ticketing connections

Admin

Create, view, or download tickets in Drata

Admin, Information Security Lead, Workspace Manager

Change Write Access toggle

Admin


Where Tickets Can Be Created

When Write Access is enabled, you can create tickets directly from the following areas in Drata:

  • Controls page: Select a specific control to create a ticket for that control.

  • Monitoring: Select a specific test to create a ticket for that test.

  • Risk Management: Select a specific risk register, then choose a risk to create a ticket for that risk.

Then, select the side arrow near the right side of the screen. Here, you can comment, create tasks, and create tickets.


Download Ticket Information

Most integrations support downloading ticket details from Drata.

Downloads typically include:

  • A ZIP file containing a PDF of ticket details

  • Any associated attachments (provider-dependent)

Provider-specific differences are listed below.


Remove or Unlink Tickets

Removing a ticket from Drata:

  • Does not delete the ticket in the connected ticketing system

  • Only removes the association in Drata

In many integrations, once a ticket is unlinked, it cannot be re-linked.


Write Access Requirements

Ticket creation requires an integration connection with Write Access enabled.

  • Write Access is often enabled by default when the connection is first created.

  • Some integrations include a Write Access toggle.

If Write Access is turned off:

  • You can still view linked tickets

  • You cannot create new tickets through Drata


What Does Not Sync into Drata

Only tickets created or linked through Drata appear in Drata. Drata does not pull in tickets that were created directly in the external ticketing system. For example:

  • A Jira issue created in Jira will not automatically appear in Drata

  • Only Jira issues created or linked from Drata will display

Integration-Specific Notes (Summary Table)

The table below highlights key limitations and unique behavior by provider.

Provider

What to watch out for

Jira

- Map existing tickets runs with URL validation (must belong to the connected Jira instance and not already be linked).

ServiceNow

- Only Incidents, Problems, and Service Catalog Tasks supported.
- Drata does not enforce ServiceNow UI/Data policies (required fields and form rules won’t show as required in Drata).
- If Assigned to isn’t valid for the Assignment group, ServiceNow will error.
- Dropdown search matches only the first word/character.
- PNG attachments are excluded from downloaded zips.

Asana

- You must choose Task or Subtask. If you pick Subtask, you must select a Parent Task, and only open parent tasks appear. - Field validation (e.g., numeric‑only) follows Asana’s config, not Drata defaults.

Freshdesk

- Sprout plan doesn’t expose the API → no integration.
- Fields cannot be numbers‑only; they must contain letters too (affects title/description and any such fields).

Freshservice

- Contact is required on every ticket. Auto‑filled Summary and Description may need editing if they’re numbers‑only;
- Fields cannot be numbers‑only; they must contain letters too (affects title/description and any such fields).

GitLab Issues

- You must choose Issue or Incident. Only open epics/milestones are available to select.
- Status grouping in Drata: In Progress = anything not closed; Completed = closed/done.

Height

- Same as Freshdesk: fields cannot be numbers‑only; they must include letters.

Aha!

- Only “To‑do” is supported as the ticket type.
- Optional Aha fields are not exposed in Drata’s ticket wizard; only required/core fields appear.

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