# migration status (/docs/cli/migration-status)

Show the Prisma ORM migration path and pending status.

Location: CLI > migration status

The database stores a marker, a row that says which version of your contract it currently matches. `migration status` compares that marker with a target version and lists the migrations in between. The target is the contract you last ran `contract emit` on, unless `--to` names another.

Use it before and after [`db migrate`](/guides/orm-db-migrate), and when debugging why an environment is not at the expected contract state.

## Usage

#### bun

```bash
bunx prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
```

#### pnpm

```bash
pnpm prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
```

#### yarn

```bash
yarn prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
```

#### npm

```bash
npx prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
```

## Options

| Option              | What it does                                                                                                           |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--db <url>`        | Connects to the database.                                                                                              |
| `--space <id>`      | Narrows output to a single contract space.                                                                             |
| `--to <contract>`   | Sets the target contract reference (hash, prefix, ref name, migration directory name, `<dir>^`, or `./path`).          |
| `--from <contract>` | Sets the origin contract reference. With `--from`, the command computes the path offline and does not need a database. |
| `--legend`          | Prints a key for the tree glyphs and lane colors.                                                                      |
| `--ascii`           | Uses ASCII glyphs (pipe-friendly).                                                                                     |
| `--config <path>`   | Read this config file instead of `./prisma.config.ts`.                                                                 |
| `--json`            | Prints a machine-readable result.                                                                                      |

## Examples

#### bun

```bash
bunx prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
bunx prisma migration status --to production
bunx prisma migration status --from abc123 --to production
bunx prisma migration status --ascii
```

#### pnpm

```bash
pnpm prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
pnpm prisma migration status --to production
pnpm prisma migration status --from abc123 --to production
pnpm prisma migration status --ascii
```

#### yarn

```bash
yarn prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
yarn prisma migration status --to production
yarn prisma migration status --from abc123 --to production
yarn prisma migration status --ascii
```

#### npm

```bash
npx prisma migration status --db "$DATABASE_URL"
npx prisma migration status --to production
npx prisma migration status --from abc123 --to production
npx prisma migration status --ascii
```

## Reading the result

With `--db`, status reads the marker from the database and compares it with the target. With `--from`, it starts from the state you name instead and needs no database.

With `--json`, the command prints one `"kind": "result"` line. Inside its `envelope`:

- `result.summary` is the sentence the human output ends with, such as `Up to date` or a count of pending migrations.
- `result.spaces[].migrations[]` lists each migration on disk with a `status`: `pending` (on the way to the target, not yet applied), `applied` (on the way to the target, already applied), or `null` (not on the way to the target).
- `diagnostics[]`, beside `result` rather than inside it, lists each problem found. Each entry has a `code`, for example `MIGRATION.MARKER_NOT_IN_HISTORY`, a `summary`, and a `severity`, which this command always sets to `warn`.

The exit code is 0 even when `diagnostics` is not empty. A non-zero exit code means the command itself failed, for example with `MIGRATION.REF_NOT_FOUND` when `--to` names a ref that does not exist.

The `migration` group has three more read-only views: `migration graph` draws the chain of migrations, `migration log` lists what has run, and `migration list` lists the migrations on disk. Run each with `--help` for details.

Use [`db verify`](/guides/orm-db-verify) after applying migrations to check the final database shape against the emitted contract.

## Related pages

- [`auth`](/guides/platform-auth): Sign in to your Prisma account from the CLI, sign out, and manage workspace sessions.
- [`branch`](/guides/platform-branch): List platform branches for a project.
- [`bucket`](/guides/platform-bucket): Create and manage object-store buckets.
- [`Configuration`](/guides/introduction-6-configuration): Configure Prisma ORM CLI commands with prisma.config.ts and global flags.
- [`contract emit`](/guides/orm-contract-emit): Emit Prisma ORM contract artifacts.

## Related pages

- [Authentication & Tools](./authentication-tools-index.md)
- [Build](./build-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Concepts](./concepts-index.md)
- [Console commands](./console-commands-index.md)
- [Contract Authoring](./contract-authoring-index.md)
- [Core Concepts](./core-concepts-index.md)
- [Data Modeling](./data-modeling-index.md)
- [Database](./database-index.md)
- [DB commands](./db-commands-index.md)

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