Understand Catalog Pages of dbt Objects

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

This section describes the catalog pages generated in Alation after extracting metadata from dbt projects using the dbt Gen2 OCF Connector.

After extraction, Alation generates:

Project Catalog Page

The project catalog page contains:

  • A list of models within the project.

  • The Job Runs table, which tracks jobs run on the project.

  • The Source System Information field, which lists data sources associated with the project.

  • Built-in and custom catalog fields associated with the catalog template of this object.

Here’s an example of a project catalog page.

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Model Catalog Page

The model catalog page includes:

  • A list of model columns

  • The Source System Information field with the linked tables in an environment, associated with the extracted RDBMS data source.

  • The Job Runs table, which shows the latest job execution summary for a given model.

  • Built-in and custom catalog fields associated with the catalog template of this object.

Here’s an example of a model catalog page.

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Model Column Catalog Page

The model column catalog page provides details on:

  • Extracted model column properties

  • The Source System Information field with the associated columns from the respective source tables.

  • Built-in and custom catalog fields associated with the catalog template of this object.