Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on a PoC to build a data dictionary in Databricks, and one of the requirements is to retrieve lineage information programmatically.

I was advised that Databricks provides Unity Catalog Lineage APIs that can retrieve table-level and column-level lineage, following the Unity Catalog permission model and without requiring direct access to the system.access schema.

I was provided with an example endpoint:

/api/2.1/unity-catalog/lineage/table-lineages

However, after searching the current Databricks documentation, I cannot find this endpoint or any official documentation for a table-lineages REST API.

The situation is that our parent company does not allow us to have direct access to the system.access schema for security and governance reasons. Therefore, querying system.access.table_lineage is not an option for our PoC.

My goal is to build a data dictionary and enrich it with lineage information, so I’m looking for a supported REST API that would allow me to retrieve table-level lineage without accessing system.access.table_lineage directly.

Could anyone clarify:

• Is /api/2.1/unity-catalog/lineage/table-lineages a supported/public Databricks REST API?

• If so, where can I find the official documentation?

• Is there another supported REST API to retrieve table-level lineage without querying system.access.table_lineage?

• Is column-level lineage also available through a supported API?

Any guidance or documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!