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Open source BI for teams that move fast ⚡️
https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash

business-intelligence data-analytics data-visualization dbt

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Open source BI for teams that move fast ⚡️

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash
Owner: lightdash
License: mit
Created: 2021-03-19T09:44:40.000Z (over 3 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2024-04-13T12:03:23.000Z (7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-04-14T04:10:14.870Z (7 months ago)
Topics: business-intelligence, data-analytics, data-visualization, dbt
Language: TypeScript
Homepage: https://lightdash.com
Size: 109 MB
Stars: 3,374
Watchers: 26
Forks: 351
Open Issues: 948
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Security: SECURITY.md

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README

        


         



The open-source Looker alternative.




         








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### Enable everybody in your company to answer their own questions using data

connect your dbt project --> add metrics into dbt --> share insights with your team

If you're a fan, star the repo ⭐️ (we [plant a tree](#the-lightdash-forest) for every GitHub star we get 🌱).

Come join the team, [we're hiring](https://lightdash.notion.site/Lightdash-Job-Board-a2c7d872794b45deb7b76ad68701d750).



## Features:

- [x] 🙏 Familiar interface for your users to self-serve using pre-defined metrics

- [x] 👩‍💻 Declare dimensions and metrics in yaml alongside your dbt project

- [x] 🤖 Automatically creates dimensions from your dbt models

- [x] 📖 dbt descriptions and metadata synced for your users

- [x] 🔍 Easily access to underlying records of charts as well as ability to data drill-down

- [x] 🧮 Table calculations make it easy to dig into your data, on the fly

- [x] 🕵️‍♀️ Lineage lets you see the upstream and downstream dependencies of a model

- [x] 📊 Comprehensive and intuitive data visualisation library for your metrics

- [x] 👷‍♂️ Save charts & build dashboards to share your insights with your team

- [x] 💻 Powerful developer experience including Preview BI Environments and automated content validation via CI/CD

- [x] 🔄 Explore version history of all your charts and roll-back at any point

- [x] 🚀 Easily share your work via URL or schedule deliveries via Slack or Email

Something missing? Check out our [open issues](https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues)

to see if what you're looking for already exists (and give it a 👍). Otherwise, we'd love it if

you'd [open a new issue with your request](https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/new/choose) 😊

## Demo

Play with our [demo app](https://demo.lightdash.com)!

## Quick start

### Start with Lightdash Cloud

You can avoid the hassle of hosting and configuring Lightdash yourself by [signing up for a free trial of Lightdash Cloud](https://app.lightdash.cloud/register). More details on pricing [available](https://www.lightdash.com/pricing).

### 1-click deploy

Deploy Lightdash with 1-click on [Render](https://render.com) for free.





  





### Run locally

Take advantage of our installation script to easily run Lightdash locally.

```bash

git clone https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash

cd lightdash

./scripts/install.sh

```

### Deploy to production

Follow our [kubernetes guide](https://docs.lightdash.com/self-host/self-host-lightdash) to deploy Lightdash to

production using our [community helm charts](https://github.com/lightdash/helm-charts).

## Getting started

Step 1 - ⚡️ [Self-host Lightdash (optional)](https://docs.lightdash.com/self-host/self-host-lightdash)

Step 2 - 🔌 [Connect a project](https://docs.lightdash.com/get-started/setup-lightdash/connect-project)

Step 3 - 👩‍💻 [Create your first metric](https://docs.lightdash.com/get-started/setup-lightdash/intro-metrics-dimensions)

## Community Support

📣 If you want something a bit more, then [head on over to our Slack Community](https://join.slack.com/t/lightdash-community/shared_invite/zt-2ehqnrvqt-LbCq7cUSFHAzEj_wMuxg4A) where you’ll be able to chat directly with all of us at Lightdash and all the other amazing members of our community. We’re happy to talk about anything from feature requests, implementation details or dbt quirks to memes and SQL jokes!

You can also keep up to date with Lightdash by following us here:

- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/lightdash_devs)

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightdash)

## About Lightdash

### 🗂 **Keep all of your business logic in one place.**

We let you define your metrics and dimensions directly in your dbt project, keeping all of your business logic in one place and increasing the context around your analytics.

No more deciding which of the four different values for total revenue is the **_right_** one (you can thank us later 😉).

### 🤝 **Build trust in your data.**

We want everyone at your company to feel like they can trust the data. So, why not **_show_** them that they can?

We bring the context you want around data quality _into_ your BI tool so people know that they can trust the data.

### 🧱 **Give users meaningful building blocks to answer their own data questions.**

With Lightdash, you can leave the SQL to the experts. We give your data team the tools they need to build metrics and dimensions that everyone else can use.

So, anybody in the business can combine, segment, and filter these metrics and dimensions to answer their own questions.

### 📖 **Open source, now and forever**

**Lightdash is built with our community, for our community.**

We think that a BI tool should be affordable, configurable, and secure - and being open source lets us be all three 🙂

### 🤑 **Affordable analytics**

Love Looker, but don't love Looker's price tag?

With Lightdash, we offer a free self-hosted service (it's all just open source!), or an affordable cloud-service option if you're looking for an easy analytics set up.

## Docs

Have a question about a feature? Or maybe fancy some light reading? Head on over to

our [Lightdash documentation](https://docs.lightdash.com/) to check out our tutorials, reference docs, FAQs and more.

## Reporting bugs and feature requests

Want to report a bug or request a feature? Open an [issue](https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/new/choose).

## The Lightdash Forest

We're planting trees with the help of the Lightdash community.

Tree planting is one of the simplest and most cost-effective means of mitigating climate change, by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. So we thought it would be pretty neat to grow a forest while we grow Lightdash.

Want to help us grow our forest?

Just star this repo! We plant a tree for every star we get on Github. ⭐️ ➡️ 🌱

We plant trees with TIST, you can read all about them here: https://program.tist.org/.

## Developing locally & Contributing

We love contributions big or small, check out [our guide](https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-lightdash) on how to get started.

See our [instructions](https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#setup-development-environment) on developing Lightdash locally.

## Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key)):

  

    

      
_{Rahul Jain}
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_{Oliver Laslett}
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_{Katie Hindson}
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_{Hamzah Chaudhary}
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_{Harry Grieve}
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_{Dominik Dorfmeister}
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_{Mitja Potočin}
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_{Ayush Sharma}
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This project follows the [all-contributors](https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) specification.

Contributions of any kind welcome!