# Databand

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/databand/  
**Website:** https://databand.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

DBND (Databand) is an open-source Python framework — a library, a set of APIs, and a CLI — for building, tracking, and observing data pipelines across data ingestion, preparation, ETL/ELT, and machine-learning workflows. It collects pipeline metadata (runs, metrics, dataframes, schemas) to give data-engineering teams a system of record for runs and to detect pipeline failures and data quality issues before they hit downstream consumers. The DBND SDK integrates with Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Databricks, dbt, and IBM DataStage. Databand was acquired by IBM in 2022 and is now IBM Databand, part of IBM's data observability offering; the open-source DBND SDK remains published on PyPI and GitHub under the databand-ai organization.

## Kin Score — 17.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Databand Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

Company, Enterprise, Data Observability, Data Engineering, Data Pipeline, Data Quality, DataOps, Machine-Learning, Open-Source, SDK, CLI, IBM

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/databand/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.