Importing issues and documents

Import from task trackers and service management tools

You can import issues from Jira, Jira Service Management, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, GitHub, Mantis, Redmine, Bugzilla, and other tools, and migrate tasks and projects from one YouTrack instance to another.

A full history of commit messages and pull requests from TeamCity, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket Cloud, and other version control systems can also be added to imported YouTrack issues. To make this work, import tasks that include the VCS changes history and set up an integration with your VCS.

YouTrack can be configured to import continuously from Jira, GitHub, GitLab, monday.com, Zendesk, and ClickUp. When continuous import is enabled, YouTrack checks the connected instance for changes in the imported projects every 10 minutes. Issues that have been added or updated since the previous check are imported and updated in YouTrack.

Import from Confluence

You can import entire Confluence spaces to YouTrack Knowledge Base, complete with articles, comments, and even users. Import works with cloud and self-hosted Confluence installations. After the initial import, you can use continuous import to transfer any subsequent changes.

Import from Google Sheets

YouTrack also supports importing issue data from Google Sheets. This means you can effectively import issues from any tracker that exports data in a compatible format, including CSV and XLSX. You can also use the ability to import from Google Sheets as a tool for importing issues in bulk.

Custom imports

YouTrack allows you to import from any external source by using custom JavaScript import scripts that map imported data to YouTrack entities. The import API is fully documented, and a demo import script is provided for reference.