Asana time tracking integration that auto-logs every task minute.
Stop asking your team to remember what they worked on. This Asana time tracking integration auto-logs task and subtask time, syncs every workspace over OAuth 2.0, and rolls up planned vs actual hours so you see true project profitability without a single manual timer or CSV export.
OAuth 2.0 secure · 20-minute setup · No credit card required
Six capabilities that turn Asana into a live time tracking record.
Auto-log task time. Compare planned vs actual hours. Sync every workspace. Capture subtasks. Measure project profitability. All secured with OAuth 2.0.
Auto-log time to Asana tasks
Focus a browser tab on an Asana task or select the task in the eMonitor sidebar. Work time flows to that task ID in one-minute increments until you switch, close the tab, or go idle.
Planned vs actual hours per project
Compare Asana's estimated hours field against measured minutes at task and project level. Spot variance the day it appears instead of the week after the deadline slips or the client escalates.
Full Asana workspace sync
eMonitor mirrors every workspace, project, task, subtask, and assignee you authorize. Asana webhooks drive near real-time updates. Multi-workspace teams filter by workspace ID or roll everything up.
Subtask time capture
Every subtask gets its own timer. Break a big deliverable into smaller pieces and see exactly which subtasks quietly consumed the day. Time rolls up to the parent task and project automatically.
Project profitability at a glance
Add billable rates and project revenue to every logged minute. See which client engagements earn their scope and which quietly eat effort. Price the next engagement from real data, not memory.
OAuth 2.0 secure integration
Scoped OAuth 2.0 connection, TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 tokens at rest. Revoke from Asana or eMonitor in one click. No passwords stored, no long-lived credentials shared, no task content pulled.
One workspace-sync dashboard for every project, subtask, and person.
Filter by Asana workspace, project, or assignee. Every planned vs actual KPI drills back to the raw task minutes that produced it.
Hourly Asana activity
Top projects by time
Three steps from OAuth 2.0 connection to project profitability rollups.
Twenty minutes end to end. No IT ticket, no browser plugin, no daily timer for your team to remember to start or stop.
Connect with OAuth
Sign in through Asana's OAuth 2.0 flow. Grant scoped read access to the workspaces you want to sync. eMonitor never sees your password and you can revoke the connection from either side at any time.
Activity mapped to task
The eMonitor agent detects the active Asana task from browser tab, window focus, or sidebar selection. Work time flows to the task ID in one-minute increments until you switch, close the tab, or go idle.
Sync back to attendance
Task and project completions stamp against the assignee's attendance record for the day. Hours per project, completion rate, and workload balance all flow into eMonitor reports with no export required.
Every auto-logged minute is a structured, exportable Asana time record.
Structured JSON, immutable timestamps, and full lineage back to the Asana task or subtask. Click any entry in the timeline to inspect the full payload behind the auto-log.
Four jobs the Asana time tracking integration does better than a manual timer.
Agencies with billable Asana hours
- Every auto-logged minute traces to a specific Asana task and client project
- Invoice from measured billable hours, not week-end guesswork or rounding
- Resolve client disputes with the underlying task ID, subtask, and timestamp
- Export a client-ready hours-by-project statement straight from the workspace sync
Product delivery teams
- See total hours per feature across designers, PMs, QA, and engineers
- Compare planned vs actual hours at task, subtask, and project level
- Forecast the next sprint scope from prior release data, not gut feel
- Track cross-functional launches spanning multiple Asana workspaces
Professional services firms
- Auto-log time to Asana tasks across many concurrent client engagements
- Measure utilization rates for consultants down to the subtask level
- Feed measured hours into fixed-fee, retainer, and time-and-materials contracts
- Give partners a monthly project profitability view without a spreadsheet
Portfolio-level time tracking
- Roll planned vs actual hours up from tasks to projects to portfolios
- Compare program spend against measured labor across every workspace
- Surface projects that quietly consume more effort than they return
- Give finance a clean portfolio margin view straight from Asana workspace sync
Built for teams whose Asana hours are the product.
Manual Asana time tracking vs. eMonitor auto-capture.
Manual timers depend on people remembering to start and stop them on every Asana task. Measured teams miss 30 to 40 percent of billable hours this way, and planned vs actual reporting drifts by the day.
| Dimension | Manual Asana entries | eMonitor auto-capture |
|---|---|---|
| Capture method | Employee remembers to log time after the fact | Agent detects active Asana task in real time |
| Coverage | Typically misses 30–40% of billable time | Every minute of active work attributed to a task |
| Granularity | Rounded to 15 or 30 minutes | One-minute increments, second-level timestamps |
| Effort per employee | 10–20 minutes daily on timesheets | Zero, unless manually confirming a task |
| Project rollups | Weekly, after export and reconcile | Live, at task and project level |
| Dispute evidence | Employee memory of what was done when | Timestamped, hashed activity trail per task |
Recommendation: Start with auto-capture for daily project work and reserve manual confirmation for the few high-stakes tasks where an employee wants to explicitly split time between two Asana projects in the same session.
Enterprise-grade controls for every Asana workspace you sync.
Task metadata only. Never the content behind it.
- Metadata only. eMonitor imports task ID, project ID, task title, assignee, due date, and status. Task descriptions, comments, attachments, and conversation history stay in Asana and are never pulled into eMonitor.
- Scoped OAuth. The integration requests read access only to workspaces you explicitly select. Personal Asana accounts and unshared workspaces are invisible to eMonitor by design.
- Self-service visibility. Every employee sees their own Asana-linked time on their personal dashboard, the same view their manager sees for their profile. Transparency is on by default and cannot be disabled.
- Revocable in one click. Disconnect from eMonitor or revoke the app from Asana at any time. Tokens are invalidated immediately and no further data flows into eMonitor. See our best-practices guide for rollout templates.
Asana Time Tracking Integration FAQ
How does eMonitor auto-log time to Asana tasks?
The eMonitor desktop agent detects the active Asana task from the browser tab title, window focus, or the eMonitor sidebar task selector, then attributes work time to that task in one-minute increments. When the employee switches tasks, closes the tab, or goes idle past the configured threshold, the timer stops. Every entry is stored with task ID, project ID, employee ID, duration, and timestamp for auditable downstream reporting.
Can I track planned vs actual hours in Asana with eMonitor?
Yes. eMonitor pulls the estimated hours field from each Asana task and pairs it with measured minutes captured by the desktop agent. Variance appears at task, project, and portfolio level so you can see which work quietly overran the plan. Managers get planned vs actual hours per project without exporting a single CSV from Asana.
Does the Asana time tracking integration capture subtask time?
Yes. Every subtask gets its own timer. When an assignee opens a subtask in Asana, that subtask receives the minutes, not just the parent task. Subtask time then rolls up to the parent task and the project automatically, so you keep granular detail without losing the top-level view. Nested subtasks up to five levels deep are supported.
How does workspace sync work with the Asana integration?
eMonitor mirrors every Asana workspace you authorize during the OAuth flow. Projects, tasks, subtasks, sections, assignees, custom fields, and due dates all sync on a rolling basis, driven by Asana webhooks for near real-time updates. Multi-workspace teams can filter dashboards by workspace ID or roll everything up into one organization-wide portfolio view.
Is the OAuth 2.0 Asana connection secure?
eMonitor connects via OAuth 2.0 with scoped read access to the workspaces you explicitly select. Tokens are stored encrypted at rest with AES-256, transmitted over TLS 1.3, and can be revoked from either Asana or eMonitor in one click. No passwords are stored. No task content beyond title, assignee, status, and estimated hours ever leaves Asana.
Which Asana plans support the time tracking integration?
The eMonitor integration works with Asana Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+. Asana's free Basic plan does not include API access and is not supported. Portfolio rollups and native planned vs actual hour fields require Asana Advanced or higher, though eMonitor can still capture actual minutes on Starter accounts.
Can eMonitor measure Asana project profitability?
Yes. Add billable rates per employee and revenue per project inside eMonitor, and every logged minute produces a project-by-project margin view. You see which client engagements earn their scope and which quietly consume more effort than they return, priced from real activity data instead of week-end memory or rounded timesheets.
Does eMonitor write time data back to Asana?
The default configuration is read-only: eMonitor imports task and project metadata but never modifies Asana records. Optional write-back can post daily time totals as task comments or update a custom Actual Hours field, gated behind an admin toggle so no data leaves eMonitor unless you explicitly enable it.
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