# dbt Core Metadata Extracted

## What does Secoda extract from dbt Core?

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dbt is a secondary integration that adds additional metadata on to your data warehouse or relational database tables. Before connecting dbt make sure to connect a data warehouse or relational database first. These include Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, Redshift, etc.
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* Models:
  * Description
  * URL
  * Compiled SQL
* Columns:
  * Description
  * Tags
  * Updated Time
* Tests:
  * Name
  * Description
  * URL
  * Tags
  * Status
  * Error
  * Compiled code
* Metrics (Referred to as Dictionary terms in Secoda) on dbt v1.5 or less:
  * Name
  * Type
  * Dimensions
  * Time Grains
* Lineage:
  * dbt Jobs <-> external Tables
  * dbt Exposures <-> external Tables
* Groups (Groups are referred to as `USER_GROUPS` in Secoda)
* Contracts (dbt Contracts are referred to as `TEST` in Secoda)
* Exposures
  * name
  * description
  * tags
  * owners (from meta.owner)
  * url
  * type
    * The exposure type can be a dashboard, notebook, analysis, ml, or application
  * depends\_on
* Monitors
  * See [#monitors-as-code](https://docs.secoda.co/features/monitoring#monitors-as-code "mention")on how to implement monitors in your model yml