Exploring your dbt models in the Dagster UI

📘 Introduction

n this hands-on tutorial, we’ll walk you step-by-step through the Dagster UI and show you where to find your dbt models, along with important details such as column descriptions, SQL code, and data lineage.

✅ Prerequisites

🐍☑️ Installed Python
📦☑️Installed Pip
🌐☑️ Created a virtual environment (venv)
🗂️☑️ A dbt project set up
🧪☑️ Existing dbt models defined in your models/ directory
🐙☑️ Created a Dagster project within your dbt project
🚀☑️ Run Dagster with your dbt project locally

🗂️ Models in our dbt project

In this tutorial, we’re working with a dbt project called dlnerds_university. Inside it, we’ve already created a Dagster project named dlnerds_university_dagster. The project contains several dbt models that we’ll explore through the Dagster UI.

💻 Explore Models in the Dagster UI

After running, the Dagster UI is available on http://127.0.0.1:3000. Open the page in your Browser and go to Assets.