DataHub Timeline API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: DataHub Open Batch Timeline API
  description: RESTful API endpoints for interacting with DataHub metadata using the OpenAPI standard. Provides endpoints for managing entities, querying relationships, retrieving timeline history, and emitting platform events. The OpenAPI endpoints offer the most powerful and flexible lower-level access to the DataHub metadata graph, supporting reads and writes of entity-aspect pairs, relationship traversal, versioned history queries, and batch operations. Recommended for advanced users who need programmatic control over the metadata graph beyond what the GraphQL API provides.
  version: 1.4.0
  contact:
    name: DataHub Project
    url: https://datahubproject.io
  termsOfService: https://datahub.com/privacy-policy/
servers:
- url: http://localhost:8080
  description: DataHub GMS Server (Local Quickstart)
- url: http://localhost:9002
  description: DataHub Frontend Proxy (Local Quickstart)
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Timeline
  description: Query the versioned history of entity aspects over time. Useful for tracking schema changes, documentation updates, and other temporal metadata modifications for a given entity.
paths:
  /timeline/:
    get:
      operationId: getTimeline
      summary: DataHub Query entity timeline
      description: Query the versioned history of an entity's aspects over time. Useful for tracking changes such as schema modifications, documentation updates, ownership transfers, and tag additions that have occurred on a given entity. Returns a chronological list of aspect versions with timestamps and audit information.
      tags:
      - Timeline
      parameters:
      - name: urn
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The URN of the entity whose timeline to retrieve.
        schema:
          type: string
          example: urn:li:dataset:(urn:li:dataPlatform:hive,SampleHiveDataset,PROD)
      - name: aspectNames
        in: query
        required: false
        description: The names of aspects to include in the timeline. If not specified, all aspects are returned.
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: startTimeMillis
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Start of the time range in epoch milliseconds.
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: endTimeMillis
        in: query
        required: false
        description: End of the time range in epoch milliseconds.
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Timeline retrieved successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TimelineResponse'
        '400':
          description: Invalid URN format or query parameters
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Authentication required or token is invalid
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: Entity not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    ChangeTransaction:
      type: object
      description: A single change transaction in the entity's timeline representing one or more aspect modifications at a specific point in time.
      properties:
        timestamp:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: The timestamp of the change in epoch milliseconds.
        semVer:
          type: string
          description: The semantic version assigned to this change.
        versionStamp:
          type: string
          description: A version stamp uniquely identifying this change.
        changeEvents:
          type: array
          description: The individual change events within this transaction.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChangeEvent'
    ChangeEvent:
      type: object
      description: An individual change event describing a modification to a specific aspect of an entity.
      properties:
        changeType:
          type: string
          description: The type of change that occurred.
          enum:
          - ADD
          - MODIFY
          - REMOVE
        semVerChange:
          type: string
          description: The semantic versioning category of this change.
          enum:
          - MAJOR
          - MINOR
          - PATCH
        description:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable description of the change.
        target:
          type: string
          description: The target element that was changed, such as a field name.
    TimelineResponse:
      type: object
      description: Response containing the versioned history of an entity's aspects.
      properties:
        changeTransactions:
          type: array
          description: A chronological list of change transactions for the entity.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChangeTransaction'
    Error:
      type: object
      description: An error response from the DataHub API.
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable description of the error.
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code.
        exceptionClass:
          type: string
          description: The exception class name if applicable.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: DataHub personal access token or session token. Generate tokens via the DataHub settings panel or programmatically using the token management API. Pass the token in the Authorization header as Bearer <token>.
externalDocs:
  description: DataHub OpenAPI Usage Guide
  url: https://docs.datahub.com/docs/api/openapi/openapi-usage-guide