Authenticating your CLI (login)

To login to your Lightdash instance run the following command and provide your login email and password:

lightdash login https://{{ lightdash_domain }}

where {{ lightdash_domain }} is the address for your running Lightdash instance. For example Lightdash cloud users in the US would type lightdash login https://app.lightdash.cloud if you’re in Europe you’d typelightdash login https://eu1.lightdash.cloud.

First, you’ll need to create a new personal access token in the UI by going to Settings > Personal Access Tokens. You can’t use an existing personal access token! You have to create a new one just for yourself.

Then, run the following command in your project:

lightdash login https://{{ lightdash_domain }} --token

where https://my-lightdash.domain.com is the address for your running Lightdash instance. For example Lightdash cloud users in the US would type lightdash login https://app.lightdash.cloud if you’re in Europe you’d typelightdash login https://eu1.lightdash.cloud.

You can use the following environment variables to authenticate yourself on each command:

LIGHTDASH_API_KEY a personal access token you can generate in the app under the user settings
LIGHTDASH_URL address for your running Lightdash instance
LIGHTDASH_PROXY_AUTHORIZATION if your Lightdash instance is behind a proxy like Cloud IAP you can set here Proxy-Authentication header value

Example:

LIGHTDASH_API_KEY=946fedb74003405646867dcacf1ad345 LIGHTDASH_URL="https://{{ lightdash_domain }}" LIGHTDASH_PROXY_AUTHORIZATION="Bearer <JWT_TOKEN>" lightdash preview

Where {{ lightdash_domain }} is your domain. For Lightdash Cloud users use https://app.lightdash.cloud

Set active project

When you login you’ll be asked to set an active project.

Your active project is just the one that you’re working on/developing in. Your organization might just have one project, so that makes your decision easy!

You can change your active project by running:

lightdash config set-project

Or you can use the LIGHTDASH_PROJECT environment variable to indicate what project UUID the command should use.

Example:

LIGHTDASH_PROJECT="3675b69e-8324-4110-bdca-059031aa8da3" lightdash deploy

Now that you’ve logged in, you’re ready to use the CLI

You can see all of the actions available on the CLI by typing this in your terminal:

lightdash

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Authenticating your CLI (login)

Set active project

Now that you’ve logged in, you’re ready to use the CLI

Welcome to Lightdash

Getting started tutorials

Guides

References

Self-hosting

Contact

​Login

​Set active project

​Now that you’ve logged in, you’re ready to use the CLI

Login

Set active project

Now that you’ve logged in, you’re ready to use the CLI