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Lightdash

Open-source BI built on top of dbt

Developer Tools & Git ★ 6.2k stars Medium setup MIT

Lightdash is a business intelligence platform that turns your dbt project into a full self-serve analytics tool. Metrics defined in dbt become explorable charts and dashboards for the whole team.

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Key features

  • Built on dbt metrics
  • Self-serve exploration
  • Dashboards and charts
  • Version-controlled definitions

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
  • Mature project with 6.2k GitHub stars

Is Lightdash secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Lightdash's latest release (2.574.0). OSV.dev lists 5 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-108747, published 2026-10-11 (3 days ago), fixed in 2.556.0

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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