dbt Charts: a new open-source language for dashboards that live inside your dbt repo

dbt Labs introduced dbt Charts at dbt Summit 2026 as an open-source, YAML-based language for creating dashboards within dbt repositories. Designed to address inconsistency and traceability issues in AI-generated dashboards while enabling more flexible AI interaction than traditional BI tools, it organizes dashboard definitions around variables, queries, charts, and layout rows alongside dbt models. The Apache 2.0-licensed tool runs locally through the dct CLI, while a hosted version adds permissions, sharing, visual editing, version history, and conversational AI features. dbt Charts also incorporates built-in data visualization design principles, including direct labels, decimal-aligned tables, and context-sensitive axis placement, with the aim of producing readable dashboards without extensive custom styling.

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