diff --git a/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker-without-neo4j.env b/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
index cc0dd6b4278b56..37b7ba1797af5b 100644
--- a/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
+++ b/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ PE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=true
 UI_INGESTION_ENABLED=true
 ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
 
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
+
 # Uncomment to disable persistence of client-side analytics events
 # DATAHUB_ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false
 
diff --git a/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker.env b/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker.env
index 59fc4bdde02ff4..0ecaa32c4cb123 100644
--- a/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker.env
+++ b/docker/datahub-gms/env/docker.env
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ MCE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=true
 PE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=true
 UI_INGESTION_ENABLED=true
 
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
+
 # Uncomment to enable Metadata Service Authentication
 METADATA_SERVICE_AUTH_ENABLED=false
 
diff --git a/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env b/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
index b6899f7e6d63b2..6a82f235b29711 100644
--- a/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
+++ b/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
 GRAPH_SERVICE_IMPL=elasticsearch
 ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-mae-consumer/resources/entity-registry.yml
 
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
+
 # Uncomment to disable persistence of client-side analytics events
 # DATAHUB_ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false
 
diff --git a/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker.env b/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker.env
index 5a6daa6eaeaed7..1f0ee4b05b3820 100644
--- a/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker.env
+++ b/docker/datahub-mae-consumer/env/docker.env
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ NEO4J_PASSWORD=datahub
 GRAPH_SERVICE_IMPL=neo4j
 ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-mae-consumer/resources/entity-registry.yml
 
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
+
 # Uncomment to disable persistence of client-side analytics events
 # DATAHUB_ANALYTICS_ENABLED=false
 
diff --git a/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env b/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
index e7be7d8ed4ddc5..b0edfc0a75b669 100644
--- a/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
+++ b/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker-without-neo4j.env
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ MAE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=false
 PE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=false
 UI_INGESTION_ENABLED=false
 
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
+
 # Uncomment to configure kafka topic names
 # Make sure these names are consistent across the whole deployment
 # METADATA_CHANGE_PROPOSAL_TOPIC_NAME=MetadataChangeProposal_v1
diff --git a/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker.env b/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker.env
index 8618f3f5f7af7a..c0f85ef667546e 100644
--- a/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker.env
+++ b/docker/datahub-mce-consumer/env/docker.env
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ MAE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=false
 PE_CONSUMER_ENABLED=false
 UI_INGESTION_ENABLED=false
 
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
+
 # Uncomment to configure kafka topic names
 # Make sure these names are consistent across the whole deployment
 # METADATA_CHANGE_PROPOSAL_TOPIC_NAME=MetadataChangeProposal_v1
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-m1.quickstart.yml b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-m1.quickstart.yml
index 834d55096468f6..a0f60d23710a07 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-m1.quickstart.yml
+++ b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-m1.quickstart.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ services:
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_MAPPINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_SETTINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-gms/resources/entity-registry.yml
     - ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j-m1.quickstart.yml b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j-m1.quickstart.yml
index 47fb50f78e4f0c..11e33a9950ba9b 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j-m1.quickstart.yml
+++ b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j-m1.quickstart.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ services:
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_MAPPINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_SETTINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-gms/resources/entity-registry.yml
     - ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml
index 3fa13a9e56b421..2efa8959834183 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml
+++ b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ services:
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_MAPPINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_SETTINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-gms/resources/entity-registry.yml
     - ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml
index a4211acedcf102..4f47a3da24eb1b 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml
+++ b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ services:
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
     - GRAPH_SERVICE_IMPL=elasticsearch
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-mae-consumer/resources/entity-registry.yml
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     hostname: datahub-mae-consumer
     image: ${DATAHUB_MAE_CONSUMER_IMAGE:-acryldata/datahub-mae-consumer}:${DATAHUB_VERSION:-head}
     ports:
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ services:
     - EBEAN_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=datahub
     - ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=elasticsearch
     - ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-mce-consumer/resources/entity-registry.yml
     - ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers.quickstart.yml b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers.quickstart.yml
index e7571e4baf8b4e..7dd7388b939884 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers.quickstart.yml
+++ b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.consumers.quickstart.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ services:
     - NEO4J_PASSWORD=datahub
     - GRAPH_SERVICE_IMPL=neo4j
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-mae-consumer/resources/entity-registry.yml
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     hostname: datahub-mae-consumer
     image: ${DATAHUB_MAE_CONSUMER_IMAGE:-acryldata/datahub-mae-consumer}:${DATAHUB_VERSION:-head}
     ports:
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ services:
     - EBEAN_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=datahub
     - ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=elasticsearch
     - ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-mce-consumer/resources/entity-registry.yml
     - ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.quickstart.yml b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.quickstart.yml
index c63b6d1d61b030..f42ed1f40c2467 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.quickstart.yml
+++ b/docker/quickstart/docker-compose.quickstart.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ services:
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_MAPPINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX_BUILDER_SETTINGS_REINDEX=true
     - ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200
+    - ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO=MD5
     - ENTITY_REGISTRY_CONFIG_PATH=/datahub/datahub-gms/resources/entity-registry.yml
     - ENTITY_SERVICE_ENABLE_RETENTION=true
     - ES_BULK_REFRESH_POLICY=WAIT_UNTIL
diff --git a/entity-registry/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/aspect/models/graph/Edge.java b/entity-registry/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/aspect/models/graph/Edge.java
index ca5e6d01103848..3de09e599d99ed 100644
--- a/entity-registry/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/aspect/models/graph/Edge.java
+++ b/entity-registry/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/aspect/models/graph/Edge.java
@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ public String toDocId() {
     }
 
     try {
+      String hashAlgo = System.getenv("ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO");
       byte[] bytesOfRawDocID = rawDocId.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-      MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
+      MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(hashAlgo);
       byte[] thedigest = md.digest(bytesOfRawDocID);
       return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(thedigest);
     } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
diff --git a/metadata-io/build.gradle b/metadata-io/build.gradle
index ff29cb5fff47d2..17d9cb8cd14fee 100644
--- a/metadata-io/build.gradle
+++ b/metadata-io/build.gradle
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ test {
     // override, testng controlling parallelization
     // increasing >1 will merely run all tests extra times
     maxParallelForks = 1
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
   }
   useTestNG() {
     suites 'src/test/resources/testng.xml'
diff --git a/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/systemmetadata/ElasticSearchSystemMetadataService.java b/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/systemmetadata/ElasticSearchSystemMetadataService.java
index 57002a3bfc59d5..cdfc4e985293f6 100644
--- a/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/systemmetadata/ElasticSearchSystemMetadataService.java
+++ b/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/systemmetadata/ElasticSearchSystemMetadataService.java
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ private String toDocument(SystemMetadata systemMetadata, String urn, String aspe
 
   private String toDocId(@Nonnull final String urn, @Nonnull final String aspect) {
     String rawDocId = urn + DOC_DELIMETER + aspect;
-
+    String hashAlgo = System.getenv("ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO");
     try {
       byte[] bytesOfRawDocID = rawDocId.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-      MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
+      MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(hashAlgo);
       byte[] thedigest = md.digest(bytesOfRawDocID);
       return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(thedigest);
     } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
diff --git a/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/timeseries/transformer/TimeseriesAspectTransformer.java b/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/timeseries/transformer/TimeseriesAspectTransformer.java
index c0f66acaaca5af..cf0a3f1466d254 100644
--- a/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/timeseries/transformer/TimeseriesAspectTransformer.java
+++ b/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/timeseries/transformer/TimeseriesAspectTransformer.java
@@ -257,7 +257,9 @@ private static Pair<String, ObjectNode> getTimeseriesFieldCollectionDocument(
         finalDocument);
   }
 
-  private static String getDocId(@Nonnull JsonNode document, String collectionId) {
+  private static String getDocId(@Nonnull JsonNode document, String collectionId)
+      throws IllegalArgumentException {
+    String hashAlgo = System.getenv("ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO");
     String docId = document.get(MappingsBuilder.TIMESTAMP_MILLIS_FIELD).toString();
     JsonNode eventGranularity = document.get(MappingsBuilder.EVENT_GRANULARITY);
     if (eventGranularity != null) {
@@ -276,6 +278,11 @@ private static String getDocId(@Nonnull JsonNode document, String collectionId)
       docId += partitionSpec.toString();
     }
 
-    return DigestUtils.md5Hex(docId);
+    if (hashAlgo.equalsIgnoreCase("SHA-256")) {
+      return DigestUtils.sha256Hex(docId);
+    } else if (hashAlgo.equalsIgnoreCase("MD5")) {
+      return DigestUtils.md5Hex(docId);
+    }
+    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Hash function not handled !");
   }
 }
diff --git a/metadata-service/configuration/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/metadata-service/configuration/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index 921c2b43dc36c6..2514060ff2d617 100644
--- a/metadata-service/configuration/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/metadata-service/configuration/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ elasticsearch:
   opensearchUseAwsIamAuth: ${OPENSEARCH_USE_AWS_IAM_AUTH:false}
   region: ${AWS_REGION:#{null}}
   implementation: ${ELASTICSEARCH_IMPLEMENTATION:elasticsearch} # elasticsearch or opensearch, for handling divergent cases
+  idHashAlgo: ${ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO:MD5}
   sslContext: # Required if useSSL is true
     protocol: ${ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_PROTOCOL:#{null}}
     secureRandomImplementation: ${ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_SECURE_RANDOM_IMPL:#{null}}
diff --git a/smoke-test/build.gradle b/smoke-test/build.gradle
index 9800cf65fc4529..95f3ba8ed56d64 100644
--- a/smoke-test/build.gradle
+++ b/smoke-test/build.gradle
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ task noCypressSuite0(type: Exec, dependsOn: [installDev, ':metadata-ingestion:in
     environment 'DATAHUB_KAFKA_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL', 'http://localhost:8080/schema-registry/api/'
     environment 'KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER', 'datahub-kafka-broker-1'
     environment 'TEST_STRATEGY', 'no_cypress_suite0'
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
 
     workingDir = project.projectDir
     commandLine 'bash', '-c',
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ task noCypressSuite1(type: Exec, dependsOn: [installDev, ':metadata-ingestion:in
     environment 'DATAHUB_KAFKA_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL', 'http://localhost:8080/schema-registry/api/'
     environment 'KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER', 'datahub-kafka-broker-1'
     environment 'TEST_STRATEGY', 'no_cypress_suite1'
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
 
     workingDir = project.projectDir
     commandLine 'bash', '-c',
@@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ task cypressSuite1(type: Exec, dependsOn: [installDev, ':metadata-ingestion:inst
     environment 'DATAHUB_KAFKA_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL', 'http://localhost:8080/schema-registry/api/'
     environment 'KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER', 'datahub-kafka-broker-1'
     environment 'TEST_STRATEGY', 'cypress_suite1'
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
 
     workingDir = project.projectDir
     commandLine 'bash', '-c',
@@ -125,6 +128,7 @@ task cypressRest(type: Exec, dependsOn: [installDev, ':metadata-ingestion:instal
     environment 'DATAHUB_KAFKA_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL', 'http://localhost:8080/schema-registry/api/'
     environment 'KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER', 'datahub-kafka-broker-1'
     environment 'TEST_STRATEGY', 'cypress_rest'
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
 
     workingDir = project.projectDir
     commandLine 'bash', '-c',
@@ -139,6 +143,7 @@ task cypressDev(type: Exec, dependsOn: [installDev, ':metadata-ingestion:install
     environment 'RUN_QUICKSTART', 'false'
     environment 'DATAHUB_KAFKA_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL', 'http://localhost:8080/schema-registry/api/'
     environment 'KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER', 'datahub-kafka-broker-1'
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
 
     workingDir = project.projectDir
     commandLine 'bash', '-c',
@@ -154,6 +159,7 @@ task cypressData(type: Exec, dependsOn: [installDev, ':metadata-ingestion:instal
     environment 'DATAHUB_KAFKA_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL', 'http://localhost:8080/schema-registry/api/'
     environment 'KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER', 'datahub-kafka-broker-1'
     environment 'RUN_UI', 'false'
+    environment "ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO", "MD5"
 
     workingDir = project.projectDir
     commandLine 'bash', '-c',
diff --git a/smoke-test/cypress-dev.sh b/smoke-test/cypress-dev.sh
index 2b31c574d05787..59346b26069059 100755
--- a/smoke-test/cypress-dev.sh
+++ b/smoke-test/cypress-dev.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ source venv/bin/activate
 
 export KAFKA_BROKER_CONTAINER="datahub-kafka-broker-1"
 export KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVER="broker:9092"
+export ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO="MD5"
 python -c 'from tests.cypress.integration_test import ingest_data; ingest_data()'
 
 cd tests/cypress
diff --git a/smoke-test/run-quickstart.sh b/smoke-test/run-quickstart.sh
index 05c321566d54a6..1923d42eb5e939 100755
--- a/smoke-test/run-quickstart.sh
+++ b/smoke-test/run-quickstart.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ DATAHUB_SEARCH_TAG="${DATAHUB_SEARCH_TAG:=2.9.0}"
 XPACK_SECURITY_ENABLED="${XPACK_SECURITY_ENABLED:=plugins.security.disabled=true}"
 ELASTICSEARCH_USE_SSL="${ELASTICSEARCH_USE_SSL:=false}"
 USE_AWS_ELASTICSEARCH="${USE_AWS_ELASTICSEARCH:=true}"
+ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO="${ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO:=MD5}"
 
 echo "DATAHUB_VERSION = $DATAHUB_VERSION"
 DATAHUB_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false  \
diff --git a/smoke-test/smoke.sh b/smoke-test/smoke.sh
index fafb2076fe6990..c16865fe1e71ef 100755
--- a/smoke-test/smoke.sh
+++ b/smoke-test/smoke.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ source venv/bin/activate
 source ./set-cypress-creds.sh
 
 export DATAHUB_GMS_URL=http://localhost:8080
+export ELASTIC_ID_HASH_ALGO="MD5"
 
 # no_cypress_suite0, no_cypress_suite1, cypress_suite1, cypress_rest
 if [[ -z "${TEST_STRATEGY}" ]]; then