Datafold can automatically ingest dbt metadata from your production environment and display it in Data Explorer.
INFO
You can enable the metadata sync in your Orchestration settings.
Please note that when this feature is enabled, user editing of table metadata is disabled.
The following model-level information can be synced:
description
is synchronized into the description field of the table into Lineage.owner
of the table is set to the user identified by the user@company.com
field. This user must exist in Datafold with that email.foo
meta-information is added to the description field with the value bar
.pii
and bar
are applied to the table as tags.Here’s an example configuration in YAML format:
The following column-level information can be synced:
user_id
has two tags applied: pk
and id
.user_id
is ignored because it reflects the primary key tag.email
column has the description applied.email
column has the tag pii
applied.email
column has extra metadata information in the description field: type
with the value email
.Here’s an example configuration for columns in YAML format:
Datafold can automatically ingest dbt metadata from your production environment and display it in Data Explorer.
INFO
You can enable the metadata sync in your Orchestration settings.
Please note that when this feature is enabled, user editing of table metadata is disabled.
The following model-level information can be synced:
description
is synchronized into the description field of the table into Lineage.owner
of the table is set to the user identified by the user@company.com
field. This user must exist in Datafold with that email.foo
meta-information is added to the description field with the value bar
.pii
and bar
are applied to the table as tags.Here’s an example configuration in YAML format:
The following column-level information can be synced:
user_id
has two tags applied: pk
and id
.user_id
is ignored because it reflects the primary key tag.email
column has the description applied.email
column has the tag pii
applied.email
column has extra metadata information in the description field: type
with the value email
.Here’s an example configuration for columns in YAML format: