Get started
Getting started
Set up your first Lightdash project and learn the fundamentals
Start with the Quickstart to get your dbt project Lightdash-ready, connect your warehouse, and invite your team. From there, pick the track that matches what you’re doing next.
If you’re analyzing data, Explore your data walks through querying Tables, building charts and dashboards, and sharing insights. If you’re building the semantic layer, Build your semantic layer covers adding Tables and creating metrics and dimensions.
Welcome to Lightdash
Enterprise-ready agentic analytics that turns your questions into insights, dashboards, and bespoke data apps
Explore your data
Query Tables, build charts and dashboards, and share insights with your team
Build your semantic layer
Install the CLI, add Tables, and define the metrics and dimensions your whole team explores
The Lightdash Way
Giving everybody in your company the building blocks to answer their own questions
Quickstart
Prepare your dbt project
Install the Lightdash CLI, generate your first Tables from your dbt models, and create your project
Connect your warehouse and dbt project
Connection settings for every supported warehouse, from BigQuery to DuckDB, plus every way to import a dbt project
Connect through an SSH tunnel
Reach a Postgres or Redshift database in a private VPC by tunnelling through a bastion host
Invite your team
Invite people to your Lightdash project so you can share content with them