Database migrations API

Tier: Free, Premium, Ultimate
Offering: GitLab Self-Managed

Use this API to manage GitLab database migrations.

Prerequisites:

You must have administrator access to the instance.

Mark a migration as successful

Marks pending migrations as successfully executed to prevent them from being executed by the db:migrate tasks. Use this API to skip failing migrations after you determine they are safe to skip.

POST /api/v4/admin/migrations/:version/mark

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`version`	integer	yes	Version timestamp of the migration to be skipped
`database`	string	no	The database name for which the migration is skipped. Defaults to `main`.

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
   --url "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/admin/migrations/:version/mark"

List pending migrations

Returns a list of all pending (not yet executed) migrations for a specified database.

GET /api/v4/admin/migrations/pending

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`database`	string	no	The database name to query. Defaults to `main`.

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
   --url "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/admin/migrations/pending?database=main"

Example response:

{
  "pending_migrations": [
    {
      "version": 20240101120000,
      "name": "create_users_table",
      "filename": "20240101120000_create_users_table.rb",
      "status": "pending"
    },
    {
      "version": 20240102150000,
      "name": "add_email_to_users",
      "filename": "20240102150000_add_email_to_users.rb",
      "status": "pending"
    }
  ],
  "database": "main",
  "total_pending": 2
}