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Monday to MySQL integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Monday and MySQL 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 Monday and MySQL

Mirror Monday's data into MySQL so your own code can read and write it like any other table, with changes flowing both ways in seconds.

Engineers integrate with tools like Monday through APIs, which means auth, pagination, rate limits, webhooks, and retry logic, all maintained forever and all different for every tool. Meanwhile the data would be trivial to use if it simply lived in MySQL.

Stacksync mirrors Boards, Items, Subitems, Column values from Monday into Views, Columns, Primary and Unique Keys, JSON Columns in MySQL and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Your services query the database directly, and inserts or updates your code makes flow back into Monday, so the tool and the database never disagree.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push support tickets or orders from an operational database into monday.com Items, then read status Column values back when work completes.
  • 02 Sync Updates and status changes from monday.com into a database so downstream tools and dashboards react to project progress in near real time.
  • 03 Feed a warehouse from MySQL continuously using binlog-based capture instead of nightly dumps
  • 04 Two-way sync between a MySQL application database and a CRM so operational records and sales records stay identical

Common sync patterns

Automate Monday from your codebase

Write to the synced tables in MySQL and Stacksync propagates the change into Monday, replacing custom integration code.

React to changes as they happen

Updates in Monday arrive as row changes in MySQL, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

One integration pattern for the whole stack

Every synced tool looks the same from the database, so each new integration is configuration, not a new codebase.

What you can sync between Monday and MySQL

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.

Monday objects MySQL objects How this pairing syncs
Boards Table-like containers that hold items; each board maps to a synced table, and its columns define the field mapping. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling. Boards is specific to Monday and Primary and Unique Keys to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Items Rows within a board and the primary record; synced two-way and created, updated, archived, or deleted via GraphQL mutations. JSON Columns Validated semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS data. Items is specific to Monday and JSON Columns to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Subitems Nested rows under items, stored on a separate hidden board; synced as a child table linked to the parent item. Stored Procedures Server-side logic that can post-process synced rows. Subitems is specific to Monday and Stored Procedures to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Column values Typed fields (status, date, people, numbers, connect-boards); polymorphic JSON usually written together via change_multiple_column_values. Triggers An alternative change-capture mechanism when binlog access is unavailable. Column values is specific to Monday and Triggers to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups Named sections that group items inside a board; synced as a grouping attribute or category field on the row. Databases (Schemas) Top-level namespaces that scope a sync's reads and writes. Groups is specific to Monday and Databases (Schemas) to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Updates Comment and activity threads attached to items; read out into a database for reporting or written back as notes. Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems. Updates is specific to Monday and Tables to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Monday and MySQL

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.

Monday MySQL Sub-second propagation

DetectionMonday notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Board-scoped webhooks (create_item, change_column_value, item_deleted, and similar) for real-time events.

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

MySQL Monday Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in MySQL are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing (requires log_bin_trust_function_creators=ON when.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Monday: Complexity-budget limits: a single query caps at 5M complexity points and ~10M points/min per user token (1M on trial/free) over a sliding 60s window.
  • MySQL: No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources.
What ships with Monday ⇄ MySQL

Connect Monday and MySQL for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Monday or MySQL instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Monday or MySQL 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 Monday or MySQL record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Monday and MySQL.

How the Monday and MySQL connectors work

Monday

Integration surface
GraphQL API (single endpoint, api.monday.com/v2)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for installed apps, or a per-user personal API token (admin/member scope); a date-based API version is sent via request header
Change detection
Board-scoped webhooks (create_item, change_column_value, item_deleted, and similar) for real-time events; polling falls back to the item updated_at field
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Complexity-budget limits: a single query caps at 5M complexity points and ~10M points/min per user token (1M on trial/free) over a sliding 60s window
Monday setup guide

MySQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (MySQL client/server protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials entered as a connection string or parameters, with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + SSH host)
Change detection
Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing (requires log_bin_trust_function_creators=ON when binary logging is enabled)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources
MySQL setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Monday and MySQL 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 · Monday ⇄ MySQL
    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
    Monday MySQL
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

Monday and MySQL integration FAQ

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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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