Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Atlassian or Azure Active Directory instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Atlassian to Azure Active Directory integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Atlassian and Azure Active Directory 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 Atlassian and Azure Active Directory
Keep the users, groups, and profile details that Atlassian and Azure Active Directory share consistent in real time, so who can work in Atlassian always matches who your directory in Azure Active Directory says belongs there.
Azure 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. Atlassian 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 Confluence Pages, Confluence Spaces, Jira Issues, Jira Projects in Atlassian with Groups, Group memberships, Applications, Service principals in Azure 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 Keep Jira and a second tracker (for example a customer's Jira instance) aligned during co-delivery projects.
- 02 Sync Confluence page metadata into a knowledge index so other tools can link to current documentation.
- 03 Replicate Groups and their Members into a Postgres warehouse for access reviews and entitlement reporting.
- 04 Mirror Applications and Service principals into a database or CMDB to track app ownership and credential expiry.
Common sync patterns
One record per person
People matched across both systems on email or an external ID stay linked, so every account and action in Atlassian ties back to the right identity in Azure Active Directory.
Provision access when someone joins
A user added to Azure Active Directory, or moved into a group inside it, gets the matching account or membership created in Atlassian, 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 Azure Active Directory, their account in Atlassian is deactivated in step, so offboarding shuts down access everywhere instead of leaving a live login behind.
What you can sync between Atlassian and Azure Active Directory
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.
| Atlassian objects | Azure Active Directory objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Boards and Sprints Agile structures read to report on sprint contents and status. | Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. | Boards and Sprints is specific to Atlassian and Groups to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Issue Comments Threaded discussion synced into linked tickets in external systems. | Group memberships Member and owner relationships on /groups/{id}/members; added and removed via the $ref endpoint and tracked for changes with delta query on $select=members. | Issue Comments is specific to Atlassian and Group memberships to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Attachments Files on issues mirrored to paired records where needed. | Applications App registrations under /applications; usually read into a database or CMDB for app ownership and credential-expiry tracking. | Attachments is specific to Atlassian and Applications to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Custom Fields Instance-specific fields (customfield IDs) that carry most business-specific data in syncs. | Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. | Custom Fields is specific to Atlassian and Service principals to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Workflows and Statuses Status transitions mapped to stages in the paired system. | Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. | Workflows and Statuses is specific to Atlassian and Directory roles to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users and Groups Assignees and reporters matched to identities in other tools. | Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. | Users and Groups is specific to Atlassian and Devices to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Atlassian and Azure Active Directory
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.
Atlassian Azure Active Directory Sub-second propagation
DetectionAtlassian notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks on issue and page events, plus JQL polling on the updated timestamp for backfill.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Azure Active Directory Atlassian Sub-second propagation
DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Atlassian through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
What ships with Atlassian ⇄ Azure Active Directory
Connect Atlassian and Azure Active Directory for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Atlassian–Azure Active Directory connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Atlassian or Azure Active Directory 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 Atlassian or Azure Active Directory record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Atlassian ⇄ Azure Active Directory sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Atlassian and Azure Active Directory.
How the Atlassian and Azure Active Directory connectors work
Atlassian
- Integration surface
- REST APIs per product (Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 (3LO) for apps or API tokens with basic auth for scripts
- Change detection
- Webhooks on issue and page events, plus JQL polling on the updated timestamp for backfill
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
Azure Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header
How it works
How to connect Atlassian to Azure Active Directory — 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 Atlassian and Azure Active Directory with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Atlassian
connected
Azure Active Directory
connected
OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Atlassian and Azure Active Directory 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 · Atlassian ⇄ Azure Active DirectoryCustomers 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.
Atlassian Azure Active DirectoryCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Atlassian and Azure Active Directory integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Atlassian and Azure Active Directory: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Atlassian's Boards and Sprints and Issue Comments), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Atlassian: REST APIs per product (Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 (3LO) for apps or API tokens with basic auth for scripts. Azure Active Directory: Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Atlassian: Issue transitions are workflow-controlled, so writes that change status must call the transitions endpoint with a valid target state rather than setting the field directly. Azure Active Directory: Throttling is metered in resource units, not request counts: a tenant over 500 users allows about 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads, and writes are capped near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes per app; over-limit calls return 429 with a Retry-After header. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Atlassian and Azure Active Directory 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 Atlassian and Azure Active Directory 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 Atlassian and Azure Active Directory connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Atlassian–Azure Active Directory integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Atlassian and Azure Active Directory. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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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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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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