Lightdash

Turn your dbt project into a full-stack BI platform

Type: Business Intelligence

Website: https://www.lightdash.com/

Slack: https://lightdash-community.slack.com/ssb/redirect

API Docs: https://docs.lightdash.com/

Authentication

To authenticate Orchestra to Lightdash, you need to create a Personal Access Token ("PAT"). Head over to the top right-hand corner of Lightdash and select user settings. You can then select Personal Access Token from the panel on the left-hand side and create a token from there.

Prerequisites

To connect Lightdash to Orchestra, you will need:

• A Lightdash account

Instructions

Generate Personal Access Token

• Navigate to Project settings

• Click 'Personal access tokens'

• Click 'Generate new token'

Determining Lightdash host

This is the domain when logged in to your the Lightdash app. It should be of the format https://app.lightdash.cloud or it may be a custom domain if you are using a self-hosted version of Lightdash. Copy the value and store here in 'Lightdash host'

Finding the project ID

Login to your Lightdash account. Your project ID should be in the URL. It is of the format <LIGHTDASH_HOST>/projects/<PROJECT_ID>. Copy the value and store here in 'Project ID'