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Active Directory to Monday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Active Directory and Monday in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Active Directory and Monday

Keep the users, groups, and profile details that Monday and Active Directory share consistent in real time, so who can work in Monday always matches who your directory in Active Directory says belongs there.

Active Directory is where a company records who its people are: their accounts, the groups and roles they hold, and the attributes attached to each one. Monday is where a slice of those same people do their work, as agents, members, or seats, and every one of them needs a matching account with the right access. When a directory and a productivity tool are maintained by hand, someone added, moved, or offboarded in one becomes a stale entry in the other within the hour.

Stacksync syncs Boards, Items, Subitems, Column values in Monday with Devices, Directory roles, Service principals & applications, Organizational units in Active Directory bi-directionally and in real time. A user created, renamed, moved between groups, or deactivated in either system updates the matching record in the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV uploads and nightly IT batch jobs.

That matters most at the edges of employment. When both systems agree on who has an account, which groups they belong to, and whether they are still active, granting access on day one and revoking it on the last day stops being a manual checklist that trails the directory.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Updates and status changes from monday.com into a database so downstream tools and dashboards react to project progress in near real time.
  • 02 Two-way sync of Items and their Column values between a monday.com board and Postgres so ops teams work in SQL while project owners stay in monday.com.
  • 03 Keep security-group memberships aligned with application entitlement tables so access reflects the right teams as they change.
  • 04 Read Devices and service principals into a database for identity, asset, and license inventory across the tenant.

Common sync patterns

Provision access when someone joins

A user added to Active Directory, or moved into a group inside it, gets the matching account or membership created in Monday, so a new hire can start working without a separate setup ticket.

Close access when someone leaves

When a user is disabled or removed in Active Directory, their account in Monday is deactivated in step, so offboarding shuts down access everywhere instead of leaving a live login behind.

Keep profile attributes current

A person's name, email, department, manager, or phone number corrected in either system updates the other, so the productivity tool shows the same details the directory holds of record.

What you can sync between Active Directory and Monday

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Active Directory objects Monday objects How this pairing syncs
Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. Users Account members referenced by people columns; read to resolve owner and assignee IDs to names and emails. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. Groups Named sections that group items inside a board; synced as a grouping attribute or category field on the row. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. Updates Comment and activity threads attached to items; read out into a database for reporting or written back as notes. Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Updates to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. Workspaces Top-level containers that hold boards; used to scope which boards a given sync covers. Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Workspaces to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. Boards Table-like containers that hold items; each board maps to a synced table, and its columns define the field mapping. Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Boards to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. Items Rows within a board and the primary record; synced two-way and created, updated, archived, or deleted via GraphQL mutations. Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Items to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Active Directory and Monday

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Active Directory Monday Sub-second propagation

DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Monday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Monday Active Directory Sub-second propagation

DetectionMonday notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Board-scoped webhooks (create_item, change_column_value, item_deleted, and similar) for real-time events.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Active Directory: Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
  • Monday: Complexity-budget limits: a single query caps at 5M complexity points and ~10M points/min per user token (1M on trial/free) over a sliding 60s window.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Monday

Connect Active Directory and Monday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Monday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Active Directory or Monday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Monday data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Active Directory or Monday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Active Directory ⇄ Monday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and Monday.

How the Active Directory and Monday connectors work

Active Directory

Integration surface
Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
Change detection
Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.

Monday

Integration surface
GraphQL API (single endpoint, api.monday.com/v2)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for installed apps, or a per-user personal API token (admin/member scope); a date-based API version is sent via request header
Change detection
Board-scoped webhooks (create_item, change_column_value, item_deleted, and similar) for real-time events; polling falls back to the item updated_at field
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Complexity-budget limits: a single query caps at 5M complexity points and ~10M points/min per user token (1M on trial/free) over a sliding 60s window
Monday setup guide
How it works

How to connect Active Directory to Monday — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Active Directory and Monday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Active Directory connected
    Monday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Active Directory and Monday objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Active Directory ⇄ Monday
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Active Directory Monday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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