📄️ Dimensions
Dimensions are the columns in your table. They are the "attributes" of your data. For example, user_id in your users table is a dimension.
📄️ Metrics
A metric is a value that describes or summarizes features from a collection of data points.
📄️ Tables
You can run queries against the tables in your Lightdash project.
📄️ Joins
Joins let you connect different models to each other so that you can explore more than one model at the same time in Lightdash and see how different parts of your data relate to each other.
📄️ Preview Projects
Preview projects are temporary Lightdash projects where you can safely experiment with your metrics, dimensions and charts without affecting your production project. Charts and dashboards are copied from your production project into your preview project so you can test your changes and make updates to existing content.
📄️ Validator
Broken content is not useful content. We've built tools in Lightdash to help validate your content so you can keep it useful and we'll notify you when it isn't.
🗃️ SQL Runner
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📄️ dbt Write Back
dbt Write-Back allows you to develop your models and metrics in Lightdash and write back these changes to your dbt project. Writing back to dbt will create a new branch and start a pull request in your dbt project so you can save and manage these changes in your dbt project.
📄️ Dashboards as Code
You can download your charts and dashboards as code, make changes, then upload your changes back to your Lightdash project using the CLI. Content as code is also useful for creating new Lightdash projects where you want the content to be copied from an existing project and added to your new project.
📄️ SQL Variables
When writing SQL in your Lightdash models, you can use the following references to template you SQL and make it more