Skip to main content

Integrate with YouTrack

Support level: Community

What is YouTrack?​

YouTrack is a project management and team collaboration tool for tracking tasks, managing projects, maintaining knowledge bases, supporting customers, and collaborating across teams.

-- https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/

Preparation​

The following placeholders are used in this guide:

  • youtrack.company is the FQDN of the YouTrack installation.
  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik installation.
info

This documentation lists only the settings that you need to change from their default values. Be aware that any changes other than those explicitly mentioned in this guide could cause issues accessing your application.

authentik configuration​

To support the integration of YouTrack with authentik, you need to create an application/provider pair in authentik.

Create an application and provider​

SAML provider changes in authentik 2026.5

authentik 2026.5 introduces changes to how the SAML provider behaves. Specifically, the provider now automatically sets the Issuer value to: https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application_slug>/metadata/

Older versions of authentik set this value to authentik by default. If you're running an older version, please set Issuer to https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application_slug>/metadata/, where <application_slug> is the slug that you selected for the application.

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Applications and click New Application to open the application wizard.
    • Application: provide a descriptive name, an optional group for the type of application, the policy engine mode, and optional UI settings. Note the Slug value because it is required later.
    • Choose a Provider type: select SAML Provider as the provider type.
    • Configure the Provider: provide a name (or accept the auto-provided name), the authorization flow to use for this provider, and the following required configurations.
      • Temporarily set the ACS URL and Audience to https://temp.temp.
      • Under Advanced protocol settings:
        • Select an available Signing Certificate.
        • Enable Sign assertions.
        • Set NameID Property Mapping to authentik default SAML Mapping: Username. Make sure that the Allow users to change username setting is disabled to prevent authentication issues.
    • Configure Bindings (optional): you can create a binding (policy, group, or user) to manage the listing and access to applications on a user's Application Dashboard page.
  3. Click Submit to save the new application and provider.

Get the certificate fingerprint​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to System > Certificates and expand the certificate that you selected in the previous section.
  3. Take note of the Certificate Fingerprint (SHA256). This value is required in the next section.

YouTrack configuration​

  1. Log in to YouTrack as a Low-level Admin or higher.
  2. Click the Administration cog near the bottom of the page, hover over Access Management, and then select Auth Modules.
  3. Click New module, then select SAML 2.0.
  4. Fill out the form with the following information:
    • Name: set a descriptive name, such as authentik.
    • SAML SSO URL: https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application_slug>/
    • IdP entity ID: https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application_slug>/metadata/
    • Certificate fingerprint: enter the Certificate Fingerprint (SHA256) value from authentik.
  5. Click Finish to create the module.
  6. Take note of the ACS URL and SP entity ID values that YouTrack generates. These values are required in the next section.
  7. Click Save to apply the settings.
  8. Click Enable to enable the module.

Update the authentik provider​

  1. Return to the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Providers and open the SAML provider that you created earlier.
  3. Under Protocol settings, set the following values:
    • ACS URL: set to the ACS URL value from YouTrack.
    • Audience: set to the SP entity ID value from YouTrack.
  4. Click Update to save the provider.
  5. Return to the YouTrack SAML 2.0 auth module and click Test login. YouTrack should redirect you to authentik for authentication and then back to YouTrack.

Configuration verification​

To confirm that authentik is properly configured with YouTrack, log out of YouTrack and sign in with the SAML 2.0 auth module. You should be redirected to authentik and, after authenticating, returned to YouTrack.

Resources​