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Authenticating your CLI (login)

Login​

1. If you use your email + password in the browser, login with your email and password.
To login to your Lightdash instance run the following command and provide your login email and password:
lightdash login https://my-lightdash.domain.com

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 type lightdash login https://eu1.lightdash.com.

2. If you use single sign-on (SSO) in the browser, login with a personal access token.
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://my-lightdash.domain.com --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 type lightdash login https://eu1.lightdash.com.

3. If you're running in a CI/CD pipeline, login with environment variables

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

Example:

LIGHTDASH_API_KEY=946fedb74003405646867dcacf1ad345 LIGHTDASH_URL="https://app.lightdash.cloud" lightdash preview

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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