Getting started

Welcome to Lightdash! We're going to try to get you developing, exploring or just browsing your data in no time.

We've put together a couple of tutorials to get people started with working in Lightdash. To decide which one's the right fit for you, just read the descriptions below:

🏗 Setting up a new project

If you:

✅ are starting a new Lightdash project from scratch
✅ have a Lightdash project connected, but it's empty/ you still need to set up your tables ✅ know how to use dbt

then this tutorial is for you! 🏗 Setting up a new project

👩‍💻 Developing in Lightdash

If you:

✅ have an existing Lightdash project with some tables and dimensions ✅ know how to use dbt ✅ want to add or change some dimensions, metrics, or tables in your project ✅ want to add formatting or descriptions to existing metrics, dimensions or tables in your project

then this tutorial is for you! 👩‍💻 Developing in Lightdash

Also check out our Lightdash Developer Quickstart, which can be copied and customized for you or other Lightdash developers in your organization.

🔭 Learning to explore data in Lightdash

If you:

✅ want to explore data in Lightdash
✅ want to learn how to build charts + dashboards in Lightdash
❌ are not someone who uses dbt
❌ aren't responsible for maintaining your metrics + dimension definitions

then this tutorial is for you! 🔭 Learning to explore data in Lightdash