We are excited to share that Atlan has officially launched a revamped in-product dbt experience designed to give you cleaner metadata, clearer lineage, and dramatically improved troubleshooting workflows. This upgrade brings your dbt models closer to the native dbt experience, including… 

• environment-specific assets, with a new filtering option and expansive lineage
• table-level sources allowing a full and complete lineage view
• compiled/raw SQL for improved impact analysis
• detailed error messages
• A heads up view of the last 5 tests and their status
• Increased visibility of the status of the most recent test on asset search, profile & lineage
• An improved overall crawler run-time

…all to help you trust, understand, and fix issues faster!

Upgrading is simple. Workflow admins just head to Workflow Center > Manage, open your dbt connection, and click Upgrade to new dbt experience. New connections already run on this improved version, and all future fixes and capabilities will be supported only on the new experience.

Going forward, Atlan will create a separate dbt asset for each environment (e.g., customers – Production and customers – Staging), ensuring each one has accurate metadata and lineage. Some quick callouts: 

1. The first workflow run after upgrading will take longer because old assets are replaced with new ones, which means FQNs, GUIDs, access policies linked to old assets, and any manually applied metadata will need to be updated. 
2. Favorites may also need to be re-added. 
3. If your data products were manually selected, you’ll need to re-select the new assets; filter-based data products will update automatically.

We recommend upgrading soon to take advantage of all enhancements, and note that the previous version will no longer be supported starting February 15, 2026. 

If you need guidance or help planning your migration, see documentation here, reach out to your CSM or contact us at support@atlan.com.