How to Migrate from Monday to Jira? A Complete Guide

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Migrating from Monday.com to Jira might feel a bit like packing up your workspace and moving into a bigger, more structured office. Everything you need is in Monday — boards, tasks, files, updates, custom fields — and you want to make sure all the data arrives safely in your new Jira instance.

Teams usually begin this journey when they outgrow Monday.com’s simplicity and need Jira’s scalability, Jira workflows, and end-to-end project management capabilities. But the moment they start exploring migration options, they quickly discover the same challenge:

How do we import data from Monday accurately without losing details, breaking relationships, or spending days fixing CSV files?

A basic CSV import rarely handles everything:

• attachments
• comments
• subitems
• linked items
• automation logic
• ownership
• timestamp metadata

This is why a well-planned Monday Jira migration requires more than exporting spreadsheets. You need to consider mapping, specific fields, workflows, permissions, and how your new Jira project structure should look before proceeding.

In this guide, we’ll walk through the entire Monday-to-Jira migration process with Getint, step by step — from preparing your workspace, selecting and mapping fields, and importing associated data, to verifying accuracy, preventing errors, and optimizing your Jira setup after everything is migrated.

Why Teams Move from Monday.com to Jira

Monday.com is flexible, visual, and easy for many teams to adopt. But as organizations scale, Jira often becomes the more suitable system for long-term project management.

Below are the most common reasons teams decide to migrate their Monday workspace into a Jira Cloud instance.

1. Growing Need for Structured Project Management

As projects grow, teams need consistent workflows, clear statuses, standardized processes, and strong permission structures. Monday’s openness can create inconsistencies. Jira brings structure across teams and projects.

2. Better Support for Engineering and Technical Teams

Jira provides sprint planning, backlogs, dependency tracking, release visibility, and integrations with development tools. When teams collaborate with engineering, consolidating into Jira improves traceability and eliminates manual work between tools.

3. Reducing Tool Sprawl

Using Monday for business teams and Jira for technical teams often leads to duplicates, outdated statuses, and unclear ownership. Migrating everything into Jira creates one source of truth.

4. More Reliable Audit Trails and Permissions

Jira offers detailed issue history, audit logs, transitions, and field-level change tracking — features many companies need for compliance.

5. Scalability and Long-Term Flexibility

Jira scales with teams, offering multiple workflows, custom fields, advanced automation, and deep integrations. As companies grow, Jira becomes the more future-proof setup.

6. Moving Away from Manual Imports and Fragmented Workflows

CSV imports handle only basic data. Once teams need comments, attachments, subitems, timestamps, or relationships, they move to a dedicated migration process.

Preparing for Your Monday → Jira Migration

A little preparation makes the migration much smoother.

Review the Monday Boards You Want to Migrate

Decide which boards should be migrated, which can be archived, and which might need cleanup. This prevents clutter in Jira.

Identify the Data You Want to Bring Over

Monday items often contain:

• subitems

• comments

• attachments

• owners and teams

• custom fields

• status values

Knowing what you need ensures nothing gets overlooked during mapping.

Define the Target Structure in Jira

Before importing, outline:

• which Jira projects you will use

• how issue types should be organized

• whether Monday statuses match Jira workflows

• whether you need additional custom fields

Prepare Users and Permissions

Make sure relevant users have access to Jira Cloud and can review or edit migrated data.

Run a Small Test First

Test with a single board or sample items. Validate mapping, statuses, attachments, and comments before migrating everything.

How Getint Helps Solve Monday → Jira Migration Challenges

Migrating data from Monday.com to Jira comes with several challenges, especially if you want to preserve more than just task titles. Elements like attachments, comments, subitems, dependencies, and custom fields often don’t transfer well through manual CSV imports.

Getint Monday Jira Integration & Migration App simplifies this process and makes the migration far more reliable. Instead of writing scripts or piecing together partial solutions, the app guides you through a structured migration flow that keeps your data intact and mapped correctly.

Here’s how it helps teams handle the most common Monday → Jira migration issues:

• Transfers full data, not just tasks

Move all the data associated with your items — comments, attachments, fields, status history, and metadata — so your Jira instance has the same clarity your team had in Monday.

• Flexible custom field mapping

Match Monday.com columns to Jira system or custom fields, including dates, people fields, labels, statuses, numbers, and dropdowns. This reduces manual cleanup after importing.

• Attachments and comments preserved

Keep files and threaded discussions linked to the correct issues, preventing loss of context during the move.

• Selective migration options

Filter by date, group, label, or status to import only the data you need. This makes it easy to avoid moving outdated or unnecessary items.

• Optional two-way sync during transition

If your team needs time to switch tools, you can temporarily sync both platforms so work stays consistent across Monday and Jira.

• Built for large datasets

Handle migrations involving thousands of items confidently, with the accuracy and performance needed for bigger teams.

• Guided setup with support available

If required, migration experts can help you review your mapping, test the setup, and verify final results to ensure everything appears correctly in your Jira projects.

Step-by-Step Process to Migrate from Monday to Jira 

Once your Monday.com workspace is reviewed and your Jira structure is ready, you can begin the migration. The overall process is simple, but each step matters if you want to keep your data accurate — including fields, comments, attachments, statuses, and other associated details.

1. Connect Monday.com and Jira

Begin by establishing a secure connection between the two platforms. After logging in to both accounts, you’ll be able to access your Monday boards and prepare them for import into your Jira Cloud instance.

This step ensures the system can read your Monday workspace and fetch all the data required for migration.

2. Select the Monday Boards to Migrate

Choose which boards you want to bring into Jira. This can be your entire Monday workspace or just selected boards — for example, a single board for testing.

You can narrow the scope if needed, importing only specific groups or filtered items.
Selecting a clearly defined scope helps avoid clutter and makes reviewing results easier.

3. Map Monday Fields to Jira Fields

Field mapping is the core of every Monday → Jira migration. Here you decide how Monday columns translate into Jira fields: which values go into Summary, Status, Assignee, or custom fields you created specifically for the migration.

This is also where you decide how to handle timeline fields, dropdowns, numbers, subitems, and other specific fields so that everything fits your Jira structure. Taking time to map fields carefully prevents errors and keeps your data consistent.

4. Configure Project Settings and Structure

Before importing, confirm where the items will land in Jira. Choose the direction of moving the data, Jira project, issue types, and any structural rules you want to apply.

If Monday boards contain subitems, decide whether they should become subtasks or separate work items.

You can also specify whether additional metadata should be included or skipped. This ensures that your new Jira work items are created with the correct hierarchy and workflow.

5. Run a Test Migration

A test run helps you verify that everything behaves as expected. It’s the easiest way to check whether fields are mapped correctly, statuses appear properly, attachments and comments transfer, and items are created without errors.

If something looks off, you can adjust the mapping or settings and repeat the test.
This small step avoids major rework later.

6. Complete the Full Migration

When the test looks good, proceed with importing all selected boards and data. During this stage, Jira begins creating work items using your mapping and configuration. Depending on the amount of data — tasks, subitems, attachments, comments, custom fields — the process may take some time.

You can track progress and wait for confirmation that everything has been migrated.

7. Review the Imported Data in Jira

After the migration finishes, review your Jira project to make sure everything transferred correctly.

Check a variety of items to confirm that:

• data is accurate,

• fields are populated,

• attachments and updates are present,

• statuses follow the expected workflow,

• and users can access and modify work items as needed.

Any adjustments are easier to make immediately after import.

8. Optional: Set Up Sync or Post-Migration Automations

Some teams keep Monday.com active for a transition period. In that case, you can configure a temporary one-way or two-way sync so both systems stay aligned while teams adapt to Jira workflows.

This helps maintain continuity until the Monday workspace is fully retired.

Conclusion

Migrating from Monday.com to Jira becomes much easier when you understand how both systems structure data and what needs to be mapped before importing anything. With the right preparation and a clean migration flow, you can bring over tasks, comments, attachments, custom fields, and all the associated details your team needs to continue working smoothly.

Whether you’re moving one board or an entire Monday workspace, focusing on accurate field mapping, clear Jira structure, and a quick test run helps ensure your data arrives exactly where it should. Once everything is verified in Jira Cloud, your teams can move forward with a system designed for long-term scalability, stronger workflows, and improved cross-team coordination.

A well-planned migration doesn’t just transfer information — it sets the foundation for better project management across your entire organization.