Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Render Postgres instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Active Directory to Render Postgres integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and Render Postgres 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 Render Postgres
Close the gap between your application data and your directory: Render Postgres and Active Directory share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.
Active Directory is the system of record for who people are and what they can reach: users, the groups they belong to, and the applications assigned to them. Render Postgres holds the operational data those same people show up in, whether an employee or member table that decides who should have an account at all, a customers list, or the rows an application checks before it authorizes an action. The two describe overlapping users and groups, and when a nightly export or a hand-run script is all that connects them, accounts lag joiners and leavers and the application authorizes against a stale picture of who has access.
Stacksync syncs Columns and Types, Indexes and Constraints, Tables, Views in Render Postgres with Organizational units, Organizational contacts, Users, Groups in Active Directory field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, with the directory holding credentials and group membership and the database holding the source list of people who should exist at all, and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, resolving conflicts by rules you set. A person added to a table becomes an account within seconds, a departure disables one just as fast, and the directory's users and groups are always present in your tables as ordinary rows.
Common use cases
- 01 Serve as the operational read/write store behind internal tools while Stacksync keeps it consistent with SaaS systems of record.
- 02 Replicate between a Render database and another Postgres or warehouse for migration or environment separation.
- 03 Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.
- 04 Keep security-group memberships aligned with application entitlement tables so access reflects the right teams as they change.
Common sync patterns
One profile, kept current
A name, department, email, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so the profile the directory shows and the data the application reads stop drifting apart.
Provision accounts from the source of truth
When a person is added to the employee, member, or customer table in Render Postgres, Stacksync creates the matching user in Active Directory with the right attributes, so access starts from live data instead of a manual ticket.
Deprovision the moment the record changes
When someone is marked inactive or removed in Render Postgres, the matching account in Active Directory is disabled within seconds, closing the window between a departure and a login that still works.
What you can sync between Active Directory and Render Postgres
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 | Render Postgres objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. | Tables Relational tables with full column typing; synced two-way with CRMs, ERPs, and SaaS apps so application data is queryable as plain Postgres rows. | Groups is specific to Active Directory and Tables to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. | Views Saved queries exposed as read-only relations; read out to BI tools or downstream syncs without duplicating transformation logic. | Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Views to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Devices Registered and joined device objects; typically read into a database for inventory and compliance reporting. | Materialized Views Precomputed query results refreshed on demand; read for fast reporting tables that downstream systems can consume. | Devices is specific to Active Directory and Materialized Views to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. | Schemas Namespaces that organize tables per app or environment; sync targets are scoped per schema to keep synced data isolated and tidy. | Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Schemas to Render Postgres — 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. | Columns and Types Full Postgres type system including JSONB and arrays; field mappings preserve native types instead of flattening to strings. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Columns and Types to Render Postgres — 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. | Indexes and Constraints Primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys; unique keys drive idempotent upserts and conflict resolution during sync. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Indexes and Constraints to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Render Postgres
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 Render Postgres 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 applied to Render Postgres as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.
Render Postgres Active Directory Sub-second propagation
DetectionChanges in Render Postgres are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Logical replication via WAL and replication slots for change data capture when enabled on the instance, with timestamp or cursor-based polling as the.
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.
- Render Postgres: No API rate limits — throughput is bounded by the instance's plan (CPU, RAM, connection limit); connection pooling is recommended since managed plans cap concurrent connections.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Render Postgres
Connect Active Directory and Render Postgres for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Render Postgres connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Render Postgres 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 Render Postgres record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Render Postgres 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 Render Postgres.
How the Active Directory and Render Postgres 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.
Render Postgres
- Integration surface
- PostgreSQL wire protocol (managed Postgres on Render)
- Authentication
- Standard Postgres connection string — host, port, database, user, password with TLS; Render provides internal and external connection URLs and IP allowlisting
- Change detection
- Logical replication via WAL and replication slots for change data capture when enabled on the instance, with timestamp or cursor-based polling as the fallback
- Capabilities
- read · write · CDC
- Rate limits
- No API rate limits — throughput is bounded by the instance's plan (CPU, RAM, connection limit); connection pooling is recommended since managed plans cap concurrent connections.
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to Render Postgres — 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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory and Render Postgres with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Active Directory
connected
Render Postgres
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and Render Postgres 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.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ Render PostgresCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory Render PostgresCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Render Postgres integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Render Postgres: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Groups and Group memberships), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Active Directory: 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. Render Postgres: PostgreSQL wire protocol (managed Postgres on Render). Authentication: Standard Postgres connection string — host, port, database, user, password with TLS; Render provides internal and external connection URLs and IP allowlisting. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Render Postgres: Render Postgres is standard PostgreSQL — anything that speaks the Postgres protocol works unchanged, including logical replication clients. Active Directory: Writes require matching Graph application permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) with tenant admin consent; delegated and application scopes differ. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Active Directory and Render Postgres without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Active Directory and Render Postgres records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and Render Postgres connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–Render Postgres integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and Render Postgres. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Alerts
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Secure connection options
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