Adf Pipeline created date

Hi shamim,

Azure Data Factory does not expose an explicit creation date for pipelines. Activity Logs are retained for only 90 days, and pipeline resources do not surface systemData.createdAt via the portal, ARM, CLI, PowerShell, or Resource Graph.

Supported ways to determine (or infer) a pipeline’s creation date:

Git / Azure DevOps (most accurate): Check the first commit where the pipeline JSON was added—this is the creation date.

Deployment history (approximate): Review Resource Group → Deployments and identify the earliest deployment that included the pipeline.

Log Analytics / Storage (if configured earlier): Query archived Activity Logs for Microsoft.DataFactory/factories/pipelines/write events.

Hope this helps. If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know we're happy to assist further.

Azure Data Factory does not expose a dedicated “pipeline created date” property in its monitoring or Log Analytics schemas. Available monitoring data (for example, ADFPipelineRun and related diagnostic logs) is focused on pipeline runs and activities, not on the resource creation timestamp.

Key points from the available monitoring data:

• Pipeline-run logs (for example, ADFPipelineRun in Azure Monitor Logs) contain columns such as PipelineName, RunId, Start, End, Status, and TimeGenerated, which describe execution history, not when the pipeline was originally created.
• Data Factory’s own stored monitoring data is retained only for 45 days; longer-term history requires routing diagnostics to Azure Monitor Logs, Storage, or Event Hubs in advance.

Given this:

• If the pipeline was created more than the retention period ago and diagnostics were not enabled at that time, the exact creation date cannot be recovered from Azure Monitor or Data Factory monitoring data.
• If diagnostics were enabled from the beginning and sent to Log Analytics or another sink, the earliest write/Create operation for that pipeline resource in those logs would approximate the creation date, but this depends on having that historical data already stored.

There is no built-in property or API in the provided documentation that returns the pipeline’s creation date directly.

References:

• Monitor Azure Data Factory
• Azure Data Factory monitoring data reference
• ADFPipelineRun
• ADFSandboxPipelineRun
• Microsoft.DataFactory factories/pipelines (deployment-language-terraform)
• Microsoft.DataFactory factories/pipelines (deployment-language-arm-template)
• Microsoft.DataFactory factories/pipelines (deployment-language-bicep)