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Two-way sync
Changes in Asana or TiDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Asana to TiDB integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Asana and TiDB 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 TiDB
Mirror Asana's data into TiDB so your own code can read and write it like any other table, with changes flowing both ways in seconds.
Engineers integrate with tools like Asana through APIs, which means auth, pagination, rate limits, webhooks, and retry logic, all maintained forever and all different for every tool. Meanwhile the data would be trivial to use if it simply lived in TiDB.
Stacksync mirrors Custom fields, Stories, Users, Portfolios from Asana into Tables, Views, Columns, Indexes in TiDB and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Your services query the database directly, and inserts or updates your code makes flow back into Asana, so the tool and the database never disagree.
Common use cases
- 01 Sync Stories and completion changes from Asana into a database so downstream dashboards and tools react to project progress in near real time.
- 02 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.
- 03 Serve mixed transactional and analytical workloads on synced data using TiFlash columnar replicas
- 04 Two-way sync between TiDB tables and SaaS tools so operational edits made in either system converge
Common sync patterns
One integration pattern for the whole stack
Every synced tool looks the same from the database, so each new integration is configuration, not a new codebase.
Read Asana with a query
Records from Asana are ordinary rows in TiDB; join them, index them, and use them in application logic without touching the vendor API.
Automate Asana from your codebase
Write to the synced tables in TiDB and Stacksync propagates the change into Asana, replacing custom integration code.
What you can sync between Asana and TiDB
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 | TiDB objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| 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. | Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client. | Projects is specific to Asana and Databases to TiDB — 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. | Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC. | Sections is specific to Asana and Tables to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| 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. | Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward. | Custom fields is specific to Asana and Views to TiDB — 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. | Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system. | Stories is specific to Asana and Columns to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users Members of a workspace or organization referenced by assignee and follower fields; read to resolve GIDs to names and emails. | Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient. | Users is specific to Asana and Indexes to TiDB — 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). | Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows. | Portfolios is specific to Asana and Sequences to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Asana and TiDB
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 TiDB 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 applied to TiDB as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.
TiDB Asana Sub-second propagation
DetectionChanges in TiDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks.
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.
- TiDB: Throughput scales with cluster size rather than fixed API quotas.
What ships with Asana ⇄ TiDB
Connect Asana and TiDB for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Asana–TiDB connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Asana or TiDB 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 TiDB record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Asana ⇄ TiDB 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 TiDB.
How the Asana and TiDB 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.
TiDB
- Integration surface
- MySQL wire protocol (SQL)
- Authentication
- Database credentials (MySQL-compatible username/password)
- Change detection
- Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks; polling also works
- Capabilities
- read · write · CDC
- Rate limits
- Throughput scales with cluster size rather than fixed API quotas
How it works
How to connect Asana to TiDB — 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 Asana and TiDB with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Asana
connected
TiDB
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Asana and TiDB 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 · Asana ⇄ TiDBCustomers 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.
Asana TiDBCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Asana and TiDB integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Asana and TiDB: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Asana's Projects and Sections), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Change detection on Asana: 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. On TiDB: Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks; polling also works. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the Asana side: Custom fields, Stories, Users, Portfolios, plus custom fields where Asana exposes them. On the TiDB side: Tables, Views, Columns, Indexes. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Asana and TiDB: One integration pattern for the whole stack; Read Asana with a query; Automate Asana from your codebase. Every synced tool looks the same from the database, so each new integration is configuration, not a new codebase.
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Asana: 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. TiDB: MySQL wire protocol (SQL). Authentication: Database credentials (MySQL-compatible username/password). Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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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
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.
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