diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/docs/sources/gc/gc_recipe.dhub.yml b/metadata-ingestion/docs/sources/gc/gc_recipe.dhub.yml
index 3c1d4ef7572659..21734cd4e03fa4 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/docs/sources/gc/gc_recipe.dhub.yml
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/docs/sources/gc/gc_recipe.dhub.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 source:
   type: datahub-gc
   config:
+    # Whether to run the recipe in dry-run mode or not
+    dry_run: false
     # Cleanup expired tokens
     cleanup_expired_tokens: true
     # Whether to truncate elasticsearch indices or not which can be safely truncated
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/datahub_gc.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/datahub_gc.py
index cddc156165624b..1897f3f288ec0b 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/datahub_gc.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/datahub_gc.py
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
 
 
 class DataHubGcSourceConfig(ConfigModel):
+    dry_run: bool = Field(
+        default=False,
+        description="Whether to perform a dry run or not. This is only supported for dataprocess cleanup and soft deleted entities cleanup.",
+    )
+
     cleanup_expired_tokens: bool = Field(
         default=True,
         description="Whether to clean up expired tokens or not",
@@ -95,11 +100,14 @@ def __init__(self, ctx: PipelineContext, config: DataHubGcSourceConfig):
 
         if self.config.dataprocess_cleanup:
             self.dataprocess_cleanup = DataProcessCleanup(
-                ctx, self.config.dataprocess_cleanup, self.report
+                ctx, self.config.dataprocess_cleanup, self.report, self.config.dry_run
             )
         if self.config.soft_deleted_entities_cleanup:
             self.soft_deleted_entities_cleanup = SoftDeletedEntitiesCleanup(
-                ctx, self.config.soft_deleted_entities_cleanup, self.report
+                ctx,
+                self.config.soft_deleted_entities_cleanup,
+                self.report,
+                self.config.dry_run,
             )
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/dataprocess_cleanup.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/dataprocess_cleanup.py
index 989458e5b1eed1..80f7b7a9f4480c 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/dataprocess_cleanup.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/dataprocess_cleanup.py
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ def __init__(
         ctx: PipelineContext,
         config: DataProcessCleanupConfig,
         report: DataProcessCleanupReport,
+        dry_run: bool = False,
     ):
         if not ctx.graph:
             raise ValueError("MetadataCleanupSource needs a datahub_api")
@@ -193,6 +194,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.ctx = ctx
         self.config = config
         self.report = report
+        self.dry_run = dry_run
 
     def get_report(self) -> DataProcessCleanupReport:
         return self.report
@@ -263,6 +265,12 @@ def delete_entity(self, urn: str, type: str) -> None:
             self.report.sample_removed_aspects_by_type[type] = LossyList()
         self.report.sample_removed_aspects_by_type[type].append(urn)
 
+        if self.dry_run:
+            logger.info(
+                f"Dry run is on otherwise it would have deleted {urn} with hard deletion is{self.config.hard_delete_entities}"
+            )
+            return
+
         self.ctx.graph.delete_entity(urn, self.config.hard_delete_entities)
 
     def delete_dpi_from_datajobs(self, job: DataJobEntity) -> None:
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/soft_deleted_entity_cleanup.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/soft_deleted_entity_cleanup.py
index 6ae1dbd7b46b9e..4da23c13659a74 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/soft_deleted_entity_cleanup.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/gc/soft_deleted_entity_cleanup.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ def __init__(
         ctx: PipelineContext,
         config: SoftDeletedEntitiesCleanupConfig,
         report: SoftDeletedEntitiesReport,
+        dry_run: bool = False,
     ):
         if not ctx.graph:
             raise ValueError(" Datahub API is required")
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.ctx = ctx
         self.config = config
         self.report = report
+        self.dry_run = dry_run
 
     def delete_entity(self, urn: str) -> None:
         assert self.ctx.graph
@@ -113,12 +115,18 @@ def delete_entity(self, urn: str) -> None:
             entity_urn.entity_type
         ].append(urn)
 
+        if self.dry_run:
+            logger.info(
+                f"Dry run is on otherwise it would have deleted {urn} with hard deletion"
+            )
+            return
+
         self.ctx.graph.delete_entity(urn=urn, hard=True)
 
     def delete_soft_deleted_entity(self, urn: str) -> None:
         assert self.ctx.graph
 
-        if not self.config.retention_days:
+        if self.config.retention_days is None:
             logger.info("Retention days is not set, skipping soft delete cleanup")
             return