aid: dbt-cloud
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dbt-cloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: dbt Cloud
kind: company
description: dbt Cloud is the analytics-engineering platform from dbt Labs for transforming
  data in the warehouse. It exposes the Administrative API for managing accounts, projects,
  jobs, runs, and environments, the Discovery (Metadata) API for project metadata and
  lineage via GraphQL, and the Semantic Layer API for querying governed metrics over
  GraphQL and JDBC.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Data
- Analytics Engineering
- Data Transformation
- ELT
- Semantic Layer
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: dbt-cloud:dbt-cloud-administrative-api
  name: dbt Cloud Administrative API
  tags:
  - Jobs
  - Runs
  - Projects
  - Environments
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/dbt-cloud/api-v2
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/dbt-cloud-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: REST API (v2 and v3) over Bearer-token / service-token auth for programmatic
    administration of dbt Cloud - listing and triggering jobs, polling and cancelling
    runs, downloading run artifacts, and managing accounts, projects, environments,
    connections, credentials, groups, and users.
- aid: dbt-cloud:dbt-cloud-discovery-api
  name: dbt Cloud Discovery (Metadata) API
  tags:
  - Metadata
  - Lineage
  - GraphQL
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  baseURL: https://metadata.cloud.getdbt.com/graphql
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-apis/discovery-querying
    type: APIReference
  description: GraphQL API for fetching metadata about the state and health of a dbt
    project - models, sources, tests, exposures, lineage/DAG, and execution results -
    queried with a Metadata Only service token against metadata.cloud.getdbt.com/graphql.
- aid: dbt-cloud:dbt-cloud-semantic-layer-api
  name: dbt Cloud Semantic Layer API
  tags:
  - Semantic Layer
  - Metrics
  - GraphQL
  - JDBC
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
  baseURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-graphql
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-graphql
    type: GraphQL
  - url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-apis/sl-jdbc
    type: APIReference
  description: APIs for querying governed metrics and dimensions defined in the dbt
    Semantic Layer - a GraphQL API and a JDBC driver (ArrowFlight SQL) - with standard
    metadata functionality, authorized via service token.
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/dbt-labs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dbtlabsinc
- type: Website
  url: https://www.getdbt.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/overview
- type: Plans
  url: plans/dbt-cloud-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dbt-cloud-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/dbt-cloud-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com