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About the dbt Cloud catalog source

You can use the dbt Cloud catalog source to extract metadata from a dbt Cloud source system.
dbt Cloud is a fully managed SaaS platform to build and deploy data transformation pipelines.

Extracted metadata

You can extract specific metadata from a dbt source system with a dbt catalog source.

Objects extracted

You can extract metadata of the following objects from a dbt Cloud source system:
Note:
Metadata Command Center only extracts metadata from models, seeds, and tests.

Compatible connectors

Before you configure a dbt Cloud catalog source, you must connect to the dbt Cloud source system.
Use the dbt Cloud connector to connect to the dbtCloud source system.
For information about configuring a connection, see Connections.