After you connect your BI tool, Elementary will automatically and continuously generate dbt exposures to your dbt project. The exposures will provide you end-to-end data lineage that will also be made available in dbt docs and dbt cloud.

​
What are dbt exposures?

dbt exposures define and describe a downstream use of your dbt project, such as dashboard, workbook or application.

​
Why are automated exposures useful?

  • Impact analysis - The exposures will be added to your lineage in Elementary. You could explore which exposures are impacted by each data issue.
  • Exposure health - By selecting an exposure and filtering on upstream nodes, you could see the status of all it’s upstream models.
  • dbt docs enrichment - As the exposures are created in code, they will be made available in your dbt docs lineage as well.
  • dbt cloud change impact - If you develop in dbt cloud, you could visualize in your IDE the downstream exposures Elementary generates, and understand the impact of changes.

​
Supported BI tools

Elementary Cloud currently supports automatically generating exposures for:

Tableau

Looker

Ask us