GraphQL API#

Dagster exposes a GraphQL API that allows clients to interact with Dagster programmatically. The API allows users to:

• Query information about pipeline runs (both historical and currently executing)
• Retrieve metadata about repositories, pipelines, and solids (such as pipeline structure and config schemas)
• Launch pipeline executions and re-executions, allowing users to trigger pipeline executions on custom events

Note about breaking changes#

The GraphQL API is still evolving and is subject to breaking changes. A large portion of the API is primarily for internal use by Dagit. For any of the queries below, we will be clear about breaking changes in release notes.

Using the GraphQL API#

The GraphQL API is served alongside the Dagit web server. To start the server, run dagit in your Dagster workspace.

dagit

Dagit serves the GraphQL endpoint at the /graphql endpoint. If you are running Dagit locally on port 3000, you can access the API at localhost:3000/graphql

Using the GraphQL Playground#

You can access the GraphQL Playground by navigating to the /graphql route in your browser. The GraphQL Playground contains the full GraphQL Schema and an interactive playground to write and test queries and mutations.

Exploring the GraphQL Schema and Documentation#

Clicking on the Docs tab on the right edge of the playground opens up interactive documentation for the GraphQL API. The interactive documentation is the best way to explore the API and get information about which fields are available on the queries and mutations.

Example Queries#

Get a list of pipelines runs#

To retrieve a list of all pipeline runs, use the pipelineRunsOrError query.

query PaginatedPipelineRuns {
  pipelineRunsOrError {
    __typename
    ... on PipelineRuns {
      results {
        runId
        pipelineName
        status
        runConfigYaml
        stats {
          ... on PipelineRunStatsSnapshot {
            startTime
            endTime
            stepsFailed
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Pagination#

You may eventually accumulate too many runs to return in one query. The pipelineRunsOrError query takes in optional cursor and limit arguments for pagination:

query PaginatedPipelineRuns {
  pipelineRunsOrError(
    cursor: "7fd2e5ef-5591-43db-be15-1ebbbbed8bb5"
    limit: 10
  ) {
    __typename
    ... on PipelineRuns {
      results {
        runId
        pipelineName
        status
        runConfigYaml
        stats {
          ... on PipelineRunStatsSnapshot {
            startTime
            endTime
            stepsFailed
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Filters#

The pipelineRunsOrError query also takes in an optional filter argument, of type PipelineRunsFilter. This query allows you to filter runs by:

• run ID
• pipeline name
• tags
• statuses

For example, the following query will return all failed runs:

query FilteredPipelineRuns {
  pipelineRunsOrError(filter: { status: FAILURE }) {
    __typename
    ... on PipelineRuns {
      results {
        runId
        pipelineName
        status
        runConfigYaml
        stats {
          ... on PipelineRunStatsSnapshot {
            startTime
            endTime
            stepsFailed
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Get a list of repositories#

This query returns the names and location names of all the repositories currently loaded.

query RepositoriesQuery {
  repositoriesOrError {
    ... on RepositoryConnection {
      nodes {
        name
        location {
          name
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Get a list of pipelines within a repository:#

Given a repository, this query returns the names of all the pipelines in the repository.

This query takes a selector, which is of type RepositorySelector. A repository selector consists of both the repository location name and repository name.

query PipelinesQuery(
  $repositoryLocationName: String!
  $repositoryName: String!
) {
  repositoryOrError(
    repositorySelector: {
      repositoryLocationName: $repositoryLocationName
      repositoryName: $repositoryName
    }
  ) {
    ... on Repository {
      pipelines {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

Launch a pipeline run#

To execute a pipeline, we can use the launchPipelineExecution mutation. Here, we define ExecutePipeline to wrap our mutation and allow us to pass in the required arguments as query variables.

For this query, the required arguments are:

selector:

• This is of type PipelineSelector, and consists of the repository location name, repository name, and pipeline name
• You can also add a solidSelection argument here, to execute a subset of the pipeline

runConfigData:

• This is where you define the run config to execute the pipeline with
• Note that runConfigData is of type RunConfigData. This type is used when passing in an arbitrary object for run config. This is any-typed in the GraphQL type system but must conform to the constraints of the config schema for this pipeline. If it does not, the mutation returns a PipelineConfigValidationInvalid response

mode:

• The mode to run the pipeline with.
• If you have not defined any custom modes for your pipeline, the default mode is default

mutation ExecutePipeline(
  $repositoryLocationName: String!
  $repositoryName: String!
  $pipelineName: String!
  $runConfigData: RunConfigData!
  $mode: String!
) {
  launchPipelineExecution(
    executionParams: {
      selector: {
        repositoryLocationName: $repositoryLocationName
        repositoryName: $repositoryName
        pipelineName: $pipelineName
      }
      runConfigData: $runConfigData
      mode: $mode
    }
  ) {
    __typename
    ... on LaunchPipelineRunSuccess {
      run {
        runId
      }
    }
    ... on PipelineConfigValidationInvalid {
      errors {
        message
        reason
      }
    }
    ... on PythonError {
      message
    }
  }
}

Launch a pipeline run with preset#

If you want to use a preset instead of defining the run config, use the preset argument instead.:

mutation ExecutePipeline(
  $repositoryLocationName: String!
  $repositoryName: String!
  $pipelineName: String!
  $presetName: String!
) {
  launchPipelineExecution(
    executionParams: {
      selector: {
        repositoryLocationName: $repositoryLocationName
        repositoryName: $repositoryName
        pipelineName: $pipelineName
      }
      preset: $presetName
    }
  ) {
    __typename
    ... on LaunchPipelineRunSuccess {
      run {
        runId
      }
    }
  }
}