DbtCharts
title: dbt-charts type: tool created: 2026-09-18 last_updated: 2026-09-18 related: [] sources: ["https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-charts"] radar_quadrant: Tools radar_ring: Assess
dbt-charts is an official dbt Labs project that lets charts, KPIs, and tables be declared directly inside a dbt project, driven by YAML configuration and rendered against the project's own warehouse connection. It is aimed at teams who already model their data in dbt and want a lightweight way to turn a model into a visual, without exporting to a separate business intelligence tool.
The project is actively developed: it has attracted 441 stars and received a commit on the same day this entry was written. Its issue tracker carries more than 30 open items spanning both bug reports -- covering edge cases in color legends, axis formatting, dual-axis charts, and sorting behavior across bar, heatmap, and small-multiple chart types -- and feature requests, including cross-filtering between charts, additional warehouse adapters such as Athena and ClickHouse, and richer table styling. That volume and specificity of open issues points to a tool with genuine active usage, though also one whose feature surface is still being smoothed out.
dbt-charts is placed in Assess. It carries strong external signals of adoption: an official dbt Labs project with a sizeable star count and an actively maintained issue backlog implying real usage in dbt pipelines. That maturity signal describes the technology as worth exploring, but the user has no first-person production use of it, which keeps it at Assess rather than Trial per the wiki's ring gate.
