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

Keep Asana 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 Asana and Monday

Stop re-entering the same information in Asana and Monday: Stacksync keeps the records they share consistent in real time, in both directions.

Two tools in the daily stack often hold overlapping information: the same people, the same companies, or the same pieces of work, described twice. The tools do different jobs, so consolidating is not the answer; the overlap just needs to stop drifting.

Stacksync syncs Custom fields, Stories, Users, Portfolios in Asana with Column values, Groups, Updates, Users in Monday in real time. You choose which records overlap, map the fields that should match, and pick a direction or let changes flow both ways. From then on, an update made in either tool is reflected in the other within seconds, without exports or copy-paste.

Because the sync is field-level, each tool keeps its own extras; only the shared data is held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push support tickets or intake requests from an operational database into Asana Tasks, then read completion and status Custom fields back when work finishes.
  • 02 Sync Stories and completion changes from Asana into a database so downstream dashboards and tools react to project progress in near real time.
  • 03 Write closed deals or provisioning records from a CRM or ERP into monday.com Items to kick off delivery and onboarding boards.
  • 04 Mirror monday.com Boards, Groups, and Subitems into a warehouse for cross-project reporting on status and timelines without CSV exports.

Common sync patterns

Where one tool produces events: mirror them in the other

Payments, replies, messages, or tickets created in one tool can create or update matching records in the other, keeping context in one place.

Where Monday is where the team documents or plans: keep its data fed

Information that originates in Asana stays current in Monday instead of going stale after a one-time paste.

Handoffs between teams

When work started in one tool continues in the other, the shared fields travel with it automatically.

What you can sync between Asana 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.

Asana objects Monday objects How this pairing syncs
Users Members of a workspace or organization referenced by assignee and follower fields; read to resolve GIDs to names and emails. 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.
Tags Labels applied across Tasks; synced as a many-to-many attribute for filtering and categorization. Updates Comment and activity threads attached to items; read out into a database for reporting or written back as notes. Tags is specific to Asana and Updates to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Teams / Workspaces Organizational containers that hold projects and members; used to scope which projects a given sync covers. Workspaces Top-level containers that hold boards; used to scope which boards a given sync covers. Teams / Workspaces is specific to Asana and Workspaces to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tasks The primary unit of work and main record; created, updated, completed, and deleted via REST and synced two-way. Subtasks are Tasks with a parent reference. Boards Table-like containers that hold items; each board maps to a synced table, and its columns define the field mapping. Tasks is specific to Asana and Boards to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Items Rows within a board and the primary record; synced two-way and created, updated, archived, or deleted via GraphQL mutations. Projects is specific to Asana and Items to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sections Ordered groupings of Tasks within a project; synced as a grouping attribute or category field on the row. Subitems Nested rows under items, stored on a separate hidden board; synced as a child table linked to the parent item. Sections is specific to Asana and Subitems to Monday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Asana 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.

Asana Monday 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 Monday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Monday Asana 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 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.
  • 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 Asana ⇄ Monday

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Asana 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 Asana or Monday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Asana ⇄ Monday 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 Monday.

How the Asana and Monday 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.

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 Asana 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 Asana 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
    Asana connected
    Monday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Asana 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 · Asana ⇄ 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
    Asana Monday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Asana and Monday integration FAQ

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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SSO & SCIM

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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

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