/prisma-cli

prisma migrate status

Checks the status of your database migrations.

Command

prisma migrate status [options]

What It Does

• Connects to the database
• Checks the _prisma_migrations table
• Compares applied migrations with local migration files
• Reports:
  • Status: Database is up-to-date or behind
  • Unapplied migrations: Count of pending migrations
  • Missing migrations: Migrations present in DB but missing locally
  • Failed migrations: Any migrations that failed to apply

Options

Examples

Check status

prisma migrate status

Output example (Up to date):

Database schema is up to date!

Output example (Pending):

Following migration have not yet been applied:
  20240115120000_add_user

To apply migrations in development, run:
  prisma migrate dev

To apply migrations in production, run:
  prisma migrate deploy

When to Use

• Debugging: Why is migrate dev complaining about drift?
• CI/CD: Verify database state before deploying
• Production: Check if migrations are needed (migrate deploy) or if a deployment failed

Exit Codes

• 0: Success (may have pending migrations, but command ran successfully)
• 1: Error

To check for pending migrations programmatically, you might need to parse the output or use migrate diff with exit code flags.