We highly recommend configuring owners and subscribers for your models and / or tests. an Owner is the person responsible for the model, and subscribers are the people who are interested in getting the alerts on the model or test. Owners and subscribers will be mentioned (tagged) in the Slack alerts. Also their name will appear in the alerts and the UI.

In addition, Elementary UI has filters by owner and even the side tree can be grouped by owner.

Owners and subscribers are configured in the dbt code:

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Owners

Elementary enriches alerts with owners for models or tests).

  • If you want the owner to be tagged on slack use '@' and the email prefix of the slack user (@jessica.jones to tag [email protected]).
  • You can configure a single owner or a list of owners (["@jessica.jones", "@joe.joseph"]).
models:
  - name: my_model_name
    meta:
      owner: "@jessica.jones"

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Subscribers

If you want additional users besides the owner to be tagged on an alert, add them as subscribers.

  • If you want the subscriber to be tagged on slack use '@' and the email prefix of the slack user (@jessica.jones to tag [email protected]).
  • You can configure a single subscriber or a list (["@jessica.jones", "@joe.joseph"]).
models:
  - name: my_model_name
    meta:
      subscribers: "@jessica.jones"