FAQ

Welcome to the dbt-colibri FAQ. Here you’ll find answers to common questions and troubleshooting tips.

All column lineage is missing, only table-to-table lineage is shown.

Ensure that you have run dbt compile to build the manifest with compiled SQL.
Colibri relies on the compiled SQL to determine column-level lineage, so the dashboard will not show column lineage if this step is skipped.

dbt compile
colibri generate

Why don’t I see column lineage for specific columns?

This can happen for several reasons:

• Column has no SQL logic
  Example: current_timestamp() as updated_at — Colibri cannot trace lineage for columns that are simple expressions with no upstream references.

• No catalog record for the column
  Ensure that the parent table of the column is materialized in production. Colibri needs catalog information to track column-level lineage.

• Of not above:
  Run Colibri in debug mode to pinpoint the issue:

  colibri generate --debug

  Check if the error is a known issue in the repository. If not, please raise a bug report  with your findings.