Why is end-to-end data lineage useful?
- Impact analysis - You could explore which exposures are impacted by each data issue.
- Exposure health - By selecting an exposure and filtering on upstream nodes, you could see the status of all it’s upstream models.
- dbt docs enrichment - As the exposures are created in code, they will be made available in your dbt docs lineage as well.
- dbt cloud change impact - If you develop in dbt cloud, you could visualize in your IDE the downstream exposures Elementary generates, and understand the impact of changes.