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title: "New Atlan + dbt + GitHub integration for proactive impact analysis"
url: "https://atlan.com/features/github-dbt-integration/"
description: "Now get visibility into downstream impact before making changes to your data model. Stop stressing about broken dashboards and #CommitWithConfidence."
---

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The Atlan + dbt + GitHub integration page, for analytics engineers, data leaders, and data analysts. **Catch data nightmares before they hit production.** Get visibility into downstream impact before making changes to your data model: see which downstream assets a change will impact, and who owns them, right within your GitHub workflow, before triggering any updates. #CommitWithConfidence.

## We know why you care

**Analytics engineers.** Making changes to data models without understanding the downstream impact can lead to broken dashboards and lost trust. With the Atlan + GitHub integration you get a clear view of data flow and dependencies inside your GitHub workflow, and know which downstream assets will be impacted by your change and who owns them, all before triggering any updates: proactive impact analysis instead of last-minute firefighting.

**Data leaders.** Without visibility into downstream impact, you're left with broken dashboards, discrepancies in BI reporting, hours of your team's productivity lost in firefighting, and broken trust. With the integration, engineers see an end-to-end view of downstream impact before changing their models: no last-minute surprises, no hours lost in RCA. 10x your team's productivity and build trust in the BI insights your company needs.

**Data analysts.** You're preparing for a sales review meeting and the sales dashboard is broken, triggering a frenzy of Slack messages to find the root cause. If the analytics engineer had known the downstream impact of their data model changes, this could have been avoided. With the integration, analytics engineers proactively understand the impact of their updates, so you can trust your dashboard numbers every day.

## Trust your BI insights, like never before

- **Prevent data quality issues in PRs** - halt pull requests with unintended effects and prevent data quality issues from hitting the warehouse.
- **Get data impact previews** - find out if renaming or removing a column will break a downstream BI dashboard before merging the PR.
- **Build trust in your BI insights** - no more last-minute frenzies before QBR meetings.

## How data teams are using it

- "As a data engineer, I've been particularly impressed by Atlan's ability to easily integrate metadata generated by dbt and custom metadata. The integration with GitHub has also been beneficial, allowing for seamless collaboration between team members on data projects." - Fadith Escorcia, Analytics Data Engineer Lead, Chiper
- "Data lineage is exceptionally helpful when updating code and fixing bugs." - Kesley Pericak, Sr. Manager of Data Analytics, Super
- "Atlan is our way of solving problems without having to ask three of your teammates a navigation question, a data lineage question, or an ownership question." - Holly Hallman, Director of Enterprise Analytics, Scripps
- "The lineage you have is probably the best laid-out lineage we've seen - very clean and very easy to understand. Some of the other guys out there get themselves into a huge mess very quickly in laying out lineage, so it's cool to see you guys have clean lineage." - Phil Warner, Director of Data, Boulevard
- "I used to spend hours finding the right tables. Now it's just one click away." - Reshma Paturi, Business Intelligence Analyst, CSE Insurance

## No more surprise crashes

With proactive impact analysis, you can move 10x faster without breaking downstream assets.

[See it in action](https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/) / [Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)