Get started
Getting started
Set up your first Lightdash project and learn the fundamentals.
Start with the Quickstart to get your dbt project Lightdash-ready, connect your warehouse, and invite your team. From there, pick the track that matches what you’re doing next.
If you’re consuming data, Explore your data walks through querying Tables, building charts and dashboards, and sharing insights. If you’re building the semantic layer, Build your semantic layer covers adding Tables and creating metrics and dimensions.
Welcome to Lightdash
Lightdash is an enterprise-ready platform for Agentic Analytics. Ask questions and get insights, dashboards, or completely bespoke apps.
The Lightdash way: data access
Our mission at Lightdash is to enable everybody in your company to answer their own questions using data.
Quickstart
Create your first project
Install the Lightdash CLI, generate your first Tables from your dbt models, and create your project.
Update your project connection
Inviting teammates to your Lightdash project
You can only share things with people you've invited to your Lightdash project. Users with **Admin** access to your project can invite users.
Explore your data
Exploring your content
An intro to metrics and dimensions
Querying from tables and exploring your data
Sharing with your team
It's time to share your hard work with the world!
Creating dashboards
Using dashboards
Build your semantic layer
Adding and managing Tables
Generate Tables from your dbt models with the Lightdash CLI, preview and deploy them, and configure which models appear in Lightdash.
How to create dimensions
How to create metrics
Install Lightdash Skills
Enable AI-powered development with Claude Code or Cursor by installing Lightdash skills