dbt Cloud features

dbt Cloud is the fastest and most reliable way to deploy dbt. Develop, test, schedule, document, and investigate data models all in one web-based UI.

In addition to providing a hosted architecture for running dbt Core across your organization, dbt Cloud comes equipped with turnkey support for scheduling jobs, CI/CD, hosting documentation, monitoring & alerting, and an integrated developer environment (IDE).

dbt Cloud's flexible plans and features make it well-suited for data teams of any size — sign up for your free 14 day trial!

dbt Cloud IDE

The IDE is the easiest and most efficient way to develop dbt models, allowing you to build, test, run, and version control your dbt projects directly from your browser.

Manage environments

Set up and manage separate production and development environments in dbt Cloud to help engineers develop and test code more efficiently, without impacting users or data.

Schedule and run dbt jobs

Create custom schedules to run your production jobs. Schedule jobs by day of the week, time of day, or a recurring interval. Decrease operating costs by using webhooks to trigger CI jobs and the API to start jobs.

Notifications

Set up and customize job notifications in dbt Cloud to receive email or slack alerts when a job run succeeds, fails, or is cancelled. Notifications alert the right people when something goes wrong instead of waiting for a user to report it.

Host & share documentation

dbt Cloud hosts and authorizes access to dbt project documentation, allowing you to generate data documentation on a schedule for your project. Invite teammates to dbt Cloud to collaborate and share your project's documentation.

Democratize access to logs

View and download in-progress and historical logs for your dbt runs, making it easy for anyone on the team to debug errors more efficiently.

Supports GitHub, GitLab, AzureDevOPs

Seamlessly connect your git account to dbt Cloud and provide another layer of security to dbt Cloud. Import new repositories, trigger continuous integration, clone repos using HTTPS, and more!

Enable Continuous Integration

Configure dbt Cloud to run your dbt projects in a temporary schema when new commits are pushed to open pull requests. This build-on-PR functionality is a great way to catch bugs before deploying to production, and an essential tool in any analyst's belt.

Security

Manage risk with SOC-2 compliance, CI/CD deployment, RBAC, and ELT architecture.

dbt Semantic Layer*

Use the dbt Semantic Layer to define metrics alongside your dbt models and query them from any integrated analytics tool. Get the same answers everywhere, every time.

Metadata API*

Enhance your workflow and run ad-hoc queries, browse schema, or query the dbt Semantic Layer. dbt Cloud serves a GraphQL API, which supports arbitrary queries.

Model timing dashboard*

Visualize and explore your runs and surface model bottlenecks. The Model timing dashboard displays model info, order, and run time for each job completed. The visualization only appears for successfully completed jobs, and the top 1% of model times are highlighted. Access the dashboard on the Run Overview page in dbt Cloud.

*These features are available on selected plans.