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Backlog
Add Backlog to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Embed a Backlog integration so your customers can track issues, projects, and version state from inside your product, with governed agent access to the same records. fastn handles per-customer authentication, field mapping, and API upkeep, so each team's own project configuration works without code from you.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let customers read issues into your product, mapped to their own issue types and statuses.
Create or update issues from an event in your product.
Read project and version state so release progress is visible.
Trigger your product when an issue changes status or is assigned.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reads open issues for a milestone before summarising readiness.
An agent creates or updates an issue within governed permissions.
An agent reacts to a status change and notifies the right owner.
Example prompt
List open issues in this project with no assignee, ordered by priority.
Set up Backlog in 4 steps
- 01Open the Backlog connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authenticate their Backlog space.
- 03Map the projects, issue types, and fields your product uses, then enable actions and triggers.
- 04Call them from your product, or expose them to an agent through the MCP server.
Why teams use the Backlog integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Backlog integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Backlog account inside your product and work their work items, assignees and due dates there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: every team configures its own fields, statuses and workflow stages. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Backlog update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Backlog connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you keep work items in step with what happens in your product without wiring it twice.
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Backlog integration FAQ
How do I add a Backlog integration to my product?
Enable the Backlog connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Backlog account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Backlog client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Backlog account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Backlog account and only ever sees their own work items, assignees and due dates. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Backlog integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reads open issues for a milestone before summarising readiness.
Who maintains the Backlog integration?
fastn does. When Backlog changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can my product create and update work in Backlog automatically?
Yes. Items can be created, updated, assigned and transitioned from your product, and changes made in Backlog can trigger your workflows in return.
Does it adapt to each team's own Backlog setup?
Yes. However a team has configured Backlog, whether that is custom fields, statuses and workflow stages or its own calendars and working hours, those are mapped per customer, so an unusual setup works without custom code from you.
What can I build with the Backlog integration?
A common starting point: read issues into your product, mapped to their own issue types and statuses. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Backlog integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Backlog does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Backlog to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.