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Google Cloud Spanner to Okta integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Cloud Spanner and Okta 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 Google Cloud Spanner and Okta

Close the gap between your application data and your directory: Google Cloud Spanner and Okta share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.

Okta 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. Google Cloud Spanner 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 Tables, Rows, Interleaved tables, Secondary indexes in Google Cloud Spanner with Factors (Authenticators), Policies, System Log, Devices in Okta 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 Push billing or entitlement changes from finance tools into Spanner tables the application reads at runtime.
  • 02 Use change streams to feed near-real-time copies of operational tables into an analytics warehouse.
  • 03 Mirror the System Log into Postgres or a warehouse for security analytics, access reviews, and audit retention beyond Okta's log window.
  • 04 Read Application assignments and Factors into a database to report on who can reach which app and which users have strong MFA enrolled.

Common sync patterns

Keep group and role membership aligned

A group or role change made in either system updates the other, so the entitlements an application enforces match what the directory grants.

One profile, kept current

A name, department, email, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so the profile the directory shows and the data the application reads stop drifting apart.

Provision accounts from the source of truth

When a person is added to the employee, member, or customer table in Google Cloud Spanner, Stacksync creates the matching user in Okta with the right attributes, so access starts from live data instead of a manual ticket.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Spanner and Okta

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.

Google Cloud Spanner objects Okta objects How this pairing syncs
Secondary indexes Used to make incremental read queries efficient on non-key columns. System Log Immutable audit event stream of logins, admin changes, and lifecycle events; read-only, polled by timestamp and used as the change feed and SIEM source. Secondary indexes is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and System Log to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Change streams Capture inserts, updates, and deletes for log-style change data capture. Devices Registered and managed device records tied to users; read to correlate access with device posture and to feed inventory or conditional-access reporting. Change streams is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Devices to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner. Users Universal Directory user records with profile attributes, credentials, and lifecycle status (staged, active, suspended, deprovisioned); full CRUD, so users are created, updated, activated, and deactivated to match an HR or identity source. Views is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Users to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration. Groups Okta groups (OKTA_GROUP, APP_GROUP, BUILT_IN) and their memberships; OKTA_GROUP records and membership are written to drive app and resource access. Databases is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Groups to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets. Applications App integrations (SAML, OIDC, SWA) with per-user and per-group assignments; read and updated to manage which identities can reach each downstream app. Tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Applications to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows The unit of read and write in each sync cycle, keyed by primary key. Group Rules Dynamic rules that add users to groups from profile attributes; read and written to automate access based on department, title, or location. Rows is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Group Rules to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Spanner and Okta

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.

Google Cloud Spanner Okta Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google Cloud Spanner are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries.

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

Okta Google Cloud Spanner Sub-second propagation

DetectionOkta notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Event Hooks send an HTTPS POST to a subscribed endpoint on events such as user.lifecycle.create and group.user_membership.add (after a one-time.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Google Cloud Spanner as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Spanner: Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
  • Okta: Rate limits are enforced per org, per endpoint group, per minute and vary by Okta edition; responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Limit, X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and X-Rate-Limit-Reset headers and exceeding one returns HTTP 429. The System Log is more tightly limited (about 120 requests/minute) and a separate concurrent-request cap (default 75 in-flight transactions) also applies.
What ships with Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Okta

Connect Google Cloud Spanner and Okta for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Google Cloud Spanner–Okta connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Google Cloud Spanner or Okta instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Cloud Spanner or Okta 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 Google Cloud Spanner or Okta record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Okta sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Cloud Spanner and Okta.

How the Google Cloud Spanner and Okta connectors work

Google Cloud Spanner

Integration surface
gRPC/REST client API with SQL query surface (GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL-interface dialects)
Authentication
Google Cloud IAM (service accounts)
Change detection
Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.

Okta

Integration surface
REST API (Okta Management API, /api/v1) with Event Hooks for outbound events and the System Log API as the change feed
Authentication
SSWS API tokens (Authorization: SSWS {token}) scoped to the creating admin's permissions, or OAuth 2.0 for Okta service apps using a private-key-JWT client-credentials grant with granular scopes (DPoP supported)
Change detection
Event Hooks send an HTTPS POST to a subscribed endpoint on events such as user.lifecycle.create and group.user_membership.add (after a one-time verification handshake); the System Log API (/api/v1/logs) is polled by the since parameter and the next Link header for a near-real-time change feed
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits are enforced per org, per endpoint group, per minute and vary by Okta edition; responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Limit, X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and X-Rate-Limit-Reset headers and exceeding one returns HTTP 429. The System Log is more tightly limited (about 120 requests/minute) and a separate concurrent-request cap (default 75 in-flight transactions) also applies.
How it works

How to connect Google Cloud Spanner to Okta — 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 Google Cloud Spanner and Okta 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
    Google Cloud Spanner connected
    Okta connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Cloud Spanner and Okta 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 · Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Okta
    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
    Google Cloud Spanner Okta
    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:

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