Provided are techniques for social media bot to Representational State Transfer (REST) proxy for data systems. An adapter for a social media application and message to Representational State Transfer (REST) mappings are provided. A social media bot is created to represent a data system component. The social media bot and the adapter are used to enable the data system component to interact with the social media application by using the message to REST mappings to map social media messages for the social media application and REST calls that are used to access the data system component.