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GitHub to Jira integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep GitHub and Jira 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 GitHub and Jira

Connect the tickets, records, and events in GitHub to the systems engineering runs in Jira, kept current in real time and in both directions.

GitHub is where customer-facing and operational work happens: the tickets, conversations, contacts, and records a team touches every day. Jira is where engineering runs the systems behind that work — the issue trackers, message brokers, directories, and monitors that keep services moving. The same items, people, and events matter to both, and when the only link between them is a manual hand-off or an overnight export, each side acts on a stale copy of what the other already knows.

Stacksync syncs Organizations and Teams, Users, Labels and Milestones, Repositories in GitHub with Worklogs, Sprints, Versions, Components in Jira field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync maps the overlap, resolves conflicts by rules you set, and keeps every copy current, with no middleware to build and no API limits to babysit.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror repository, PR, and workflow-run data into a Postgres database for engineering-metrics reporting.
  • 02 Sync organization and team membership with an identity or HR system to automate access reviews and offboarding.
  • 03 Sync Sprints and Boards with a capacity-planning tool so estimates and iteration scope stay aligned.
  • 04 Consolidate multiple Jira Projects or sites into one database, mapping Projects, Components, and Versions for cross-team reporting.

Common sync patterns

Where Jira is the directory or identity source: one set of users

People and accounts in GitHub stay matched to the users in Jira, so access, provisioning, and org changes propagate instead of being keyed in twice.

Where Jira watches operations: live volumes for visibility

Open items, throughput, and error counts from GitHub replicate into Jira, so the operational view reflects what is actually happening in the business.

One shared record across both systems

Where both systems keep records for the same contacts, items, or users, a correction in either updates the other, ending dual maintenance and keeping IDs aligned for every other flow.

What you can sync between GitHub and Jira

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.

GitHub objects Jira objects How this pairing syncs
Issues Synced two-way with project trackers and support tools, including labels and assignees. Issues Core work items (stories, bugs, tasks, epics, sub-tasks); synced two-way with databases and other trackers, keyed by issue key with an updated field for incrementals. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Users Author and assignee identities matched to internal directories. Users Account records referenced as reporters, assignees, and watchers; read to resolve accountId to a person when mapping Issue ownership. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Labels and Milestones Classification fields mapped to statuses and sprints in external trackers. Projects Containers that group Issues, workflows, and permissions; usually read to segment syncs by team, or written when standing up a new project. Labels and Milestones is specific to GitHub and Projects to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Repositories Top-level containers whose metadata and settings syncs read to scope other objects. Comments Discussion threads on Issues; in v3 the body is Atlassian Document Format JSON, so rich text is preserved when syncing to and from other systems. Repositories is specific to GitHub and Comments to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Pull Requests Review state, status checks, and merge status feed engineering dashboards and workflow tools. Worklogs Time-tracking entries against Issues; read into warehouses for effort and capacity reporting, or written back from timesheet tools. Pull Requests is specific to GitHub and Worklogs to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Commits Read-only history used to link code activity to tickets and releases. Sprints Agile iterations from the Jira Software API; synced to report scope, velocity, and burndown, and to move Issues between sprints. Commits is specific to GitHub and Sprints to Jira — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between GitHub and Jira

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.

GitHub Jira Sub-second propagation

DetectionGitHub notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases.

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

Jira GitHub Sub-second propagation

DetectionJira notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Jira webhooks (jira:issue_created / _updated / _deleted plus comment and worklog events) for near-real-time.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • GitHub: Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
  • Jira: Cost-based (points) model; 429 responses return Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers. JQL search costs far more than single-issue reads.
What ships with GitHub ⇄ Jira

Connect GitHub and Jira for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in GitHub or Jira instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever GitHub or Jira 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 GitHub or Jira record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your GitHub ⇄ Jira sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between GitHub and Jira.

How the GitHub and Jira connectors work

GitHub

Integration surface
REST API and GraphQL API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, fine-grained personal access tokens, or GitHub App installation tokens
Change detection
Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases; polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.

Jira

Integration surface
REST API v2 and v3 plus the Jira Software (Agile) REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (3LO) for apps, or Basic auth with an Atlassian account email plus API token
Change detection
Jira webhooks (jira:issue_created / _updated / _deleted plus comment and worklog events) for near-real-time; incremental JQL polling on the issue updated timestamp as a best-effort reconciliation fallback.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Cost-based (points) model; 429 responses return Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers. JQL search costs far more than single-issue reads.
How it works

How to connect GitHub to Jira — 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 GitHub and Jira 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
    GitHub connected
    Jira connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the GitHub and Jira 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 · GitHub ⇄ Jira
    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
    GitHub Jira
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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