---
title: "Read a record's history"
description: "List changes to this record, newest first, with one entry per field that changed; setting a field to its existing value creates no history."
canonical: "https://grid82.com/docs/app-api/records/history"
updated: "2026-11-13"
---

# Read a record's history

`GET https://your-suite.grid82.app/your-app/v1/records/{recordId}/history`

List changes to this record, newest first, with one entry per field that changed; setting a field to its existing value creates no history.

> **Note: Generic contract**
>
> Your own version of this operation, with your tables and the fields you can read, is in
> your app's document: `https://{suite}.grid82.app/{app}/v1/openapi.json`, behind your credential.
> [Why each person gets their own](/docs/start/studio-and-runtime#why-an-app-has-an-api-of-its-own).

Also includes record creation, comments, and deletion. Fields you cannot read produce no visible entry.

Requires the `records:read` scope. Operation `records.history`. MCP tool `records_history`. CLI: `grid82 records history` (`npx grid82`).

## Path parameters

| Name       | Type   | Required | Description |
| ---------- | ------ | -------- | ----------- |
| `recordId` | string | yes      |             |

## Query parameters

| Name      | Type    | Required | Description   |
| --------- | ------- | -------- | ------------- |
| `limit`   | integer | no       | Default `50`. |
| `tableId` | string  | yes      |               |

**Authorizations**

- `Authorization` (bearer, in header, required)

## Response

**200**: Success

- `data` (`object[]`, required)
- `data.id` (`string`, required)
- `data.tableId` (`string`, required)
- `data.recordId` (`string`, required)
- `data.authorId` (`string`, required)
- `data.via` (`string`, required)
- `data.kind` (`enum<string>`, required, one of: `created, edited, commented, uncommented, deleted`)
- `data.fieldId` (`string`)
- `data.before` (`string | number | boolean | null | string[]`)
- `data.after` (`string | number | boolean | null | string[]`)
- `data.at` (`string`, required)

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "<string>",
      "tableId": "<string>",
      "recordId": "<string>",
      "authorId": "<string>",
      "via": "<string>",
      "kind": "created",
      "fieldId": "<string>",
      "before": "<string>",
      "after": "<string>",
      "at": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}
```

**4XX**: Refused

- `error` (`object`, required)
- `error.code` (`enum<string>`, required, one of: `not_found, forbidden, unauthenticated, validation_failed, conflict, rate_limited, payment_required, not_implemented, internal`)
- `error.message` (`string`, required)
- `error.details` (`Record<string, unknown>`)

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "<string>",
    "details": {}
  }
}
```

**Example request**

```bash
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://your-suite.grid82.app/your-app/v1/records/<recordId>/history?tableId=<tableId>' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```