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Lineage shows how a data asset connects to everything around it: what it depends on upstream and what depends on it downstream. It spans your dbt™ project and every connected BI and ingestion tool, so you can trace data all the way from an ingestion source through your models to a BI dashboard.
Lineage lives in the Data Catalog. Open any asset and select its Lineage tab to see its dependencies. This section explains how to read and work with that view.

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Two ways to view lineage

Graph view

An interactive DAG of upstream and downstream nodes, with node-type filters, depth controls, and click-through navigation.

List view & export

The same dependencies as a sortable, filterable table you can download as CSV.

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Follow a single column

Asset lineage tells you which models feed a model. To trace one value instead, open a dbt™ asset’s Columns tab and click a column: column-level lineage shows where that column’s value comes from, where it flows, and what happened to it at each hop.

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Sources

At the top of the lineage view, the Sources chips show the source systems feeding the asset (for example a dbt™ source or a Fivetran connector), so you can see at a glance where its data originates.
Lineage is built from your dbt™ project and connected integrations, and populates after your first Bolt production run. If an asset isn’t part of the graph yet, the view shows a note instead of a diagram.