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 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "dbt-labs-dbt-charts--trace-column-impact-on-boards",
 "repo": "dbt-labs/dbt-charts",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-charts",
 "repo_slug": "dbt-labs-dbt-charts",
 "title": "Find which dashboards break when a column changes",
 "page_title": "How to find which dashboards break when a column changes with DBT Charts",
 "summary": "Use dct impact to list the boards that reference a column before you rename it.",
 "who": "A data engineer about to rename or drop a warehouse column who needs to know which dashboards will be affected.",
 "problem": "Column changes can silently break dashboards that nobody remembers depend on them.",
 "outcome": "A list of boards that reference the column, so the owners can update them in the same change.",
 "steps": [
  "Run `uv tool install dbt-charts` to install the CLI.",
  "Run `dct impact` to see which boards reference a column.",
  "Run `dct search` to find boards by keyword if you need to locate related dashboards.",
  "Update or notify the owners of each board listed before the column change ships."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "In the dbt-charts repo, run `dct impact` for the column <placeholder> and list every board that references it. Verify the list against `dct search` results for the same name.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The README gives only a one-line description of dct impact, so check its exact arguments with `dct docs` or the CLI reference before you rely on it.",
 "category": "Data and analytics",
 "tags": [
  "Data and analytics"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.11 to 3.13",
  "uv (or pip) to install the dbt-charts package",
  "A warehouse adapter extra such as dbt-charts[snowflake] or dbt-charts[bigquery] if you want to run queries against your own warehouse",
  "Warehouse credentials for your own data, or the Playground demo data at play.dbtcharts.com"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": false,
 "score": 0.8,
 "evidence": [],
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