---
title: "Read a record's history"
description: "Every change to this record, newest first, one entry per field that actually moved, setting a field to the value it already held is not history."
canonical: "https://gtable.app/docs/app-api/records/history"
updated: "2026-10-05"
---

# Read a record's history

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

Every change to this record, newest first, one entry per field that actually moved, setting a field to the value it already held is not 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}.gtable.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 carries the record being created, commented on and deleted. Fields you cannot read produce no entry you can see.

Requires the `records:read` scope. Operation `records.history`. MCP tool `records_history`. CLI, once published: `gtable records history`.

## Path parameters

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

## Query parameters

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