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Azure Active Directory to OpenSearch integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch 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 Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch

Close the gap between your application data and your directory: OpenSearch and Azure Active Directory share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.

Azure 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. OpenSearch 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 Index aliases, Index templates, Ingest pipelines, Data streams in OpenSearch with Directory roles, Devices, Users, Groups in Azure 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 Sync product catalogs from an ERP or database into the indexes that back storefront search.
  • 02 Keep Postgres as the source of truth while mirroring rows to OpenSearch for full-text and vector queries.
  • 03 Mirror Applications and Service principals into a database or CMDB to track app ownership and credential expiry.
  • 04 Reconcile Entra ID Users and assignedLicenses with an ITSM or finance database to audit license allocation and reclaim unused seats.

Common sync patterns

Provision accounts from the source of truth

When a person is added to the employee, member, or customer table in OpenSearch, Stacksync creates the matching user in Azure 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 OpenSearch, the matching account in Azure Active Directory is disabled within seconds, closing the window between a departure and a login that still works.

Read users and groups as ordinary tables

Users, groups, and their memberships from Azure Active Directory land in OpenSearch as rows your application and queries can join, so authorization checks and access reporting run against the database instead of the directory API.

What you can sync between Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch

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.

Azure Active Directory objects OpenSearch objects How this pairing syncs
Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. Ingest pipelines Server-side processors that transform documents as they are written Groups is specific to Azure Active Directory and Ingest pipelines to OpenSearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Data streams Append-oriented time-series storage for logs and events pushed from source systems Group memberships is specific to Azure Active Directory and Data streams to OpenSearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Applications App registrations under /applications; usually read into a database or CMDB for app ownership and credential-expiry tracking. Snapshots Backup artifacts, relevant when reseeding an index from a repository Applications is specific to Azure Active Directory and Snapshots to OpenSearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. Indexes The core container; synced records land in indexes with defined mappings Service principals is specific to Azure Active Directory and Indexes to OpenSearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. Documents JSON records written via the index and bulk APIs and read via search queries Directory roles is specific to Azure Active Directory and Documents to OpenSearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. Index aliases Stable names over rotating indexes, used for zero-downtime reindex during backfills Devices is specific to Azure Active Directory and Index aliases to OpenSearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch

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.

Azure Active Directory OpenSearch 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 OpenSearch through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

OpenSearch Azure Active Directory Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls OpenSearch for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No native change feed.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Azure Active Directory 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.
  • OpenSearch: Throughput bounded by cluster sizing rather than fixed API quotas.
What ships with Azure Active Directory ⇄ OpenSearch

Connect Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Active Directory–OpenSearch connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure Active Directory or OpenSearch instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Active Directory or OpenSearch 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 Azure Active Directory or OpenSearch record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure Active Directory ⇄ OpenSearch sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch.

How the Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch connectors work

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

OpenSearch

Integration surface
REST API over HTTP(S) with JSON payloads
Authentication
basic authentication with the security plugin, or AWS IAM request signing on Amazon OpenSearch Service
Change detection
no native change feed; reads rely on queries with scroll or point-in-time polling
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
throughput bounded by cluster sizing rather than fixed API quotas
How it works

How to connect Azure Active Directory to OpenSearch — 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 Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch 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
    Azure Active Directory connected
    OpenSearch connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Active Directory and OpenSearch 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 · Azure Active Directory ⇄ OpenSearch
    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
    Azure Active Directory OpenSearch
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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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