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Elasticsearch to Ukg Ready integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready 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 Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Ukg Ready is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Elasticsearch is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Reports (Report-as-a-Service), Employees, Employment / Positions, Compensation in Ukg Ready need to exist as queryable Data streams, Ingest pipelines, Index templates, Indices in Elasticsearch before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Data streams, Ingest pipelines, Index templates, Indices in Elasticsearch with Reports (Report-as-a-Service), Employees, Employment / Positions, Compensation in Ukg Ready field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Ukg Ready typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Feed enriched customer records into an index used for vector or hybrid search in AI applications.
  • 02 Sync CRM accounts and contacts into an Elasticsearch index to power internal search across customer records.
  • 03 Two-way sync Employees and Employment/Position records with an operational Postgres database so internal apps and IT provisioning read job title, department, and status in SQL while HR edits in UKG Ready.
  • 04 Import computed Earnings and deductions into UKG Ready payroll runs from a warehouse or external time-tracking system ahead of each pay period.

Common sync patterns

One directory of record

When a person record is added, changed, or deactivated in either system, the matching row in the other stays current, ending dual maintenance.

Reporting and analytics on current data

Reports (Report-as-a-Service), Employees, Employment / Positions, Compensation replicate into Elasticsearch where they join operational tables, so headcount, roles, and status reports run on the live state without manual pulls.

Org and structure stay aligned

Groups, departments, managers, and reporting lines from Ukg Ready stay consistent in Elasticsearch, so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

What you can sync between Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready

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.

Elasticsearch objects Ukg Ready objects How this pairing syncs
Index templates Reusable settings and mappings applied automatically to new indices a sync creates. Timesheet Entries Time-and-attendance punches, hours worked, and breaks; written from external time systems and read into warehouses for labor-cost reporting. Index templates is specific to Elasticsearch and Timesheet Entries to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Indices Target containers for synced records; each holds a table-like collection of JSON documents. Accruals / Time Off PTO balances, requests, and approver status; read for liability reporting and requests can be created against employee records. Indices is specific to Elasticsearch and Accruals / Time Off to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Documents The unit of sync; JSON records created, updated, and deleted by _id. Payroll (Earnings / Deductions / Employee Payroll Runs) Earnings and deductions can be imported into pay runs; Employee Payroll Runs (gross, net, taxes) read back for GL posting and analytics. Documents is specific to Elasticsearch and Payroll (Earnings / Deductions / Employee Payroll Runs) to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Index mappings Field type definitions that determine how synced fields are indexed and queried. Benefits Plan enrollments, coverage tiers, contributions, and effective dates; typically read into benefits or finance systems. Index mappings is specific to Elasticsearch and Benefits to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Aliases Stable read/write names that let a sync cut over between index versions without downtime. Cost Centers / Groups Departments, locations, and hierarchy used as org structure; read to align headcount and budget models across systems. Aliases is specific to Elasticsearch and Cost Centers / Groups to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Data streams Append-only targets for time-series or event data pushed from source systems. Reports (Report-as-a-Service) Scheduled IBM Cognos extracts used for bulk historical pulls that the per-employee REST endpoints are not built for. Data streams is specific to Elasticsearch and Reports (Report-as-a-Service) to Ukg Ready — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready

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.

Elasticsearch Ukg Ready Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Elasticsearch for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on timestamp or sequence fields.

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

Ukg Ready Elasticsearch Sub-second propagation

DetectionUkg Ready notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. UKG Webhooks for select events (employee.created, employee.updated, account/org changes) with HMAC signing.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Elasticsearch: No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity.
  • Ukg Ready: Rate limits apply over roughly a 1-minute window and return HTTP 429 when exceeded (back off / exponential retry); UKG Webhooks run on a tiered quota with a free tier around 10,000 event notifications per month and 14-day event retention.
What ships with Elasticsearch ⇄ Ukg Ready

Connect Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Elasticsearch–Ukg Ready connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Elasticsearch or Ukg Ready instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Elasticsearch or Ukg Ready 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 Elasticsearch or Ukg Ready record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Elasticsearch ⇄ Ukg Ready sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready.

How the Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready connectors work

Elasticsearch

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTP)
Authentication
API keys or basic authentication; Elastic Cloud also issues service account tokens
Change detection
Polling on timestamp or sequence fields; Elasticsearch does not expose a native change feed or webhooks
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity

Ukg Ready

Integration surface
UKG Ready REST API (v1/v2) plus the Import Tool (XML transactions) and Report-as-a-Service (IBM Cognos); a legacy SOAP API also exists
Authentication
A 7-digit company short name, a Web API key (Company Setup > Login Config), and a dedicated API service-account user (username/password) are exchanged for a session Bearer token sent on every request; Onboarding/Recruiting endpoints use a separate authorization token
Change detection
UKG Webhooks for select events (employee.created, employee.updated, account/org changes) with HMAC signing; broad change capture via polling REST endpoints with date filters or scheduled Report-as-a-Service extracts
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits apply over roughly a 1-minute window and return HTTP 429 when exceeded (back off / exponential retry); UKG Webhooks run on a tiered quota with a free tier around 10,000 event notifications per month and 14-day event retention
How it works

How to connect Elasticsearch to Ukg Ready — 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 Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready 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
    Elasticsearch connected
    Ukg Ready connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Elasticsearch and Ukg Ready 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 · Elasticsearch ⇄ Ukg Ready
    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
    Elasticsearch Ukg Ready
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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