dbt Cloud API get to return job status and which models failed

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The problem I’m having:

I would like to use the dbt Cloud API to get job run details. Specifically which models failed. What is the API endpoint to query? I can use http://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v2/accounts/account/runs/jobrunid and get data.status_humanized to see “Error” but I want to see which models had the failure(s). I can query https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v2/accounts/account/runs/jobrunid/?include_related=[“run_steps”] and see which command had errors but is there a way to succinctly get just the models that had a failure?

The context of why I’m trying to do this

I am hitting the dbt Cloud endpoints using a Web activity from ADF and wanting to save the output to a variable and then based on that display the error and fail the activity or move forward with the next step in our ELT process.

Thanks for any help!

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  1. You could download (using the API) the run_results.json artifact that is generated after each run.
  2. The discovery API I think can tell you the status of models for the run.

Note: @Jeremy Yeo originally posted this reply in Slack. It might not have transferred perfectly.

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@a_slack_user Thanks for your help. I am somewhat new to API calls. When I try a GET with https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v2/accounts/1/runs/1/artifacts/run_results.json using my account and my run id, I get a 404 Not Found error in Postman. Should I be calling it in a different way or is this only returned if we are above dbt v 1.0 for now? Thank you!

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@a_slack_user I was able to get run_results.json artifact. Seems like I’ll need to search for where “failures” is not equal to null. Thanks for the starting point!