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Asana to Jira integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Asana and Jira 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 Asana and Jira

Connect the tickets, records, and events in Asana to the systems engineering runs in Jira, kept current in real time and in both directions.

Asana is where customer-facing and operational work happens: the tickets, conversations, contacts, and records a team touches every day. Jira is where engineering runs the systems behind that work — the issue trackers, message brokers, directories, and monitors that keep services moving. The same items, people, and events matter to both, and when the only link between them is a manual hand-off or an overnight export, each side acts on a stale copy of what the other already knows.

Stacksync syncs Users, Portfolios, Tags, Teams / Workspaces in Asana with Users, Issues, Projects, Comments in Jira field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync maps the overlap, resolves conflicts by rules you set, and keeps every copy current, with no middleware to build and no API limits to babysit.

Common use cases

  • 01 Two-way sync of Tasks and their Custom fields between an Asana project and Postgres so ops teams work in SQL while project owners stay in Asana.
  • 02 Write closed deals or new orders from a CRM or ERP into Asana Tasks to launch delivery, onboarding, or fulfillment projects automatically.
  • 03 Consolidate multiple Jira Projects or sites into one database, mapping Projects, Components, and Versions for cross-team reporting.
  • 04 Two-way sync Issues and their status, assignee, and story points with a Postgres database so teams query and update sprint data in SQL.

Common sync patterns

Where Jira watches operations: live volumes for visibility

Open items, throughput, and error counts from Asana replicate into Jira, so the operational view reflects what is actually happening in the business.

One shared record across both systems

Where both systems keep records for the same contacts, items, or users, a correction in either updates the other, ending dual maintenance and keeping IDs aligned for every other flow.

Where Jira tracks engineering work: requests become issues

A ticket or request raised in Asana opens or updates a matching issue in Jira, and status, comments, and resolution flow back, so support and engineering work the same item instead of retyping it.

What you can sync between Asana and Jira

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.

Asana objects Jira objects How this pairing syncs
Projects Collections of Tasks with a layout (list, board, timeline, calendar); each project maps to a synced table scope and its custom fields define the mapping. Projects Containers that group Issues, workflows, and permissions; usually read to segment syncs by team, or written when standing up a new project. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. Custom fields on either side are included in the mapping.
Users Members of a workspace or organization referenced by assignee and follower fields; read to resolve GIDs to names and emails. Users Account records referenced as reporters, assignees, and watchers; read to resolve accountId to a person when mapping Issue ownership. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Custom fields Typed fields (text, number, enum, multi-enum, date, people) defined at project or workspace level; mapped to database columns, with enum values written by option GID. Worklogs Time-tracking entries against Issues; read into warehouses for effort and capacity reporting, or written back from timesheet tools. Custom fields is specific to Asana and Worklogs to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Stories Comments and activity entries on a Task; read out for history and reporting or written back as comments. Sprints Agile iterations from the Jira Software API; synced to report scope, velocity, and burndown, and to move Issues between sprints. Stories is specific to Asana and Sprints to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Portfolios Collections of Projects for program-level rollup; read for cross-project status and progress reporting (Business and Enterprise). Versions Release / fix-version records per Project; synced to align roadmap and release tools on what ships in each version. Portfolios is specific to Asana and Versions to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tags Labels applied across Tasks; synced as a many-to-many attribute for filtering and categorization. Components Sub-project categories used to route and group Issues; synced so ownership and triage stay consistent across tools. Tags is specific to Asana and Components to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Asana and Jira

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.

Asana Jira Sub-second propagation

DetectionAsana notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Resource-scoped webhooks (established with an X-Hook-Secret handshake) POST events on create, change, and delete.

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

Jira Asana Sub-second propagation

DetectionJira notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Jira webhooks (jira:issue_created / _updated / _deleted plus comment and worklog events) for near-real-time.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Asana: Per token: 1,500 requests/minute on paid plans, 150/minute on free; the Search API is capped at 60/minute; concurrency caps at 50 GET and 15 write requests. Exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header, and a separate cost-based limiter applies to complex graph traversals.
  • Jira: Cost-based (points) model; 429 responses return Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers. JQL search costs far more than single-issue reads.
What ships with Asana ⇄ Jira

Connect Asana and Jira for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Asana–Jira connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Asana or Jira instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Asana or Jira 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 Asana or Jira record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Asana ⇄ Jira sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Asana and Jira.

How the Asana and Jira connectors work

Asana

Integration surface
REST API (app.asana.com/api/1.0, JSON responses), plus resource-scoped Webhooks and a sync-token Events API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for multi-user apps, Personal Access Tokens (PATs) for single-account use and testing, and organization-scoped Service Accounts (Enterprise) for admin-level access
Change detection
Resource-scoped webhooks (established with an X-Hook-Secret handshake) POST events on create, change, and delete; the sync-token Events API returns incremental changes on a task or project when webhooks are not used
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per token: 1,500 requests/minute on paid plans, 150/minute on free; the Search API is capped at 60/minute; concurrency caps at 50 GET and 15 write requests. Exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header, and a separate cost-based limiter applies to complex graph traversals.

Jira

Integration surface
REST API v2 and v3 plus the Jira Software (Agile) REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (3LO) for apps, or Basic auth with an Atlassian account email plus API token
Change detection
Jira webhooks (jira:issue_created / _updated / _deleted plus comment and worklog events) for near-real-time; incremental JQL polling on the issue updated timestamp as a best-effort reconciliation fallback.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Cost-based (points) model; 429 responses return Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers. JQL search costs far more than single-issue reads.
How it works

How to connect Asana to Jira — 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 Asana and Jira 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
    Asana connected
    Jira connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Asana and Jira 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 · Asana ⇄ Jira
    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
    Asana Jira
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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