IT Glue + Super Magic
Concept
Connect your IT Glue documentation to Super Magic so your technicians get relevant articles surfaced directly inside Thread Inbox — with no manual exports, no uploads, and no day-to-day maintenance.How Super Magic surfaces IT Glue articles
Once connected, Super Magic surfaces relevant IT Glue articles two ways:- On-demand — when a technician asks Super Magic a question, it searches your IT Glue library and returns up to 3 relevant article links as part of the response.
- Proactively — when a thread opens, the Super Magic panel automatically surfaces relevant IT Glue articles alongside contact history and past threads, before the technician asks anything.
How to
Before you start
Open IT Glue settings in Thread

Connect your API key

Enable Knowledge Articles (Document Sync tab)

Verify
How the sync works
Automatic, nightly, incremental Thread runs an incremental sync against your IT Glue library every night at 03:00 UTC. Each run:- Walks the IT Glue API per organization, including documents nested inside folders.
- Compares each document’s updated_at timestamp to what Thread has on file.
- Pulls the latest content for any document that has changed.
- Thread compares IT Glue’s updated_at timestamp on each document against the last time we synced it. Documents that haven’t changed are skipped entirely — no API call, no re-indexing. This is why even large IT Glue accounts typically complete their nightly sync in minutes rather than hours.
- Every active IT Glue organization mapped to a Thread client.
- Every document inside those organizations, including documents nested inside folders.
- Document content, name, organization, and metadata required for company-scoped retrieval.
What sync statuses mean
How article retrieval works
When Super Magic responds to a technician on a specific ticket:How Thread Matches Companies to ITG Organizations (by PSA)
Permissions and data handling
- API scope: The integration uses a single API key to read documents from IT Glue. Every document the key can see is eligible for ingestion — Thread does not currently filter by IT Glue’s per-document permissions, and no per-document ACL or user-context filtering is applied at our boundary. For customers storing sensitive content (security scans, credentials, internal-only runbooks), this is worth considering when evaluating the integration. Granular folder-level and pattern-based exclusion controls within Thread are on our roadmap.
- API key permissions: read-only document access is all that’s required. You can rotate or revoke the key at any time without affecting anything else in IT Glue.
- Where data is stored: synced document content lives in Thread’s encrypted application database (AWS US East). It is never written to disk in plain text and never leaves Thread’s infrastructure during retrieval.
- AI processing: when an article is surfaced to Super Magic, its content is included in the prompt sent to the AI model. Prompts and completions are processed in memory only and are not retained or used for model training.
- Disconnecting: removing the integration in Thread purges the synced inventory and stops all future syncs.
FAQ
How do I generate an IT Glue API key?
How do I generate an IT Glue API key?
Does the API key need Password Access?
Does the API key need Password Access?
How often does Thread re-sync?
How often does Thread re-sync?
How long does a sync take?
How long does a sync take?
Will Super Magic show documentation from other companies I support?
Will Super Magic show documentation from other companies I support?
Will folder-nested documents be synced?
Will folder-nested documents be synced?
What if Super Magic returns no IT Glue results?
What if Super Magic returns no IT Glue results?
- The first sync has completed (see the last synced timestamp on the Document Sync tab).
- Knowledge Articles is toggled on.
- Relevant articles exist in IT Glue for that company.
Can I add new documents and have them appear immediately?
Can I add new documents and have them appear immediately?
Can I disconnect the integration?
Can I disconnect the integration?
Is there an API rate limit I should worry about?
Is there an API rate limit I should worry about?