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Empower your team with intuitive data documentation they'll love.
Visualize data relations, manage lifecycle, and promote knowledge sharing.
No credit card required.
Built for data consumers
Help users be effective with your data.
Getting users to use, understand and be productive with your data is difficult. refter is a lightweight and easy to integrate solution that'll turn all your data users into power users.
Boost productivity
Find what you're looking for faster.
Make finding, understanding, and using your data a breeze - no extra hassle for developers.
- Intuitive search.
- Transform your data catalog into a user-friendly treasure trove! Effortlessly search and explore for dbt models and database objects.
- Powerful filters.
- Drill down to what matters in a few clicks. Organize filters to fit your company and/or team.
Increase understanding
Document entity relations.
Assist users in discovering and visualizing critical relationships in your data. This not only ensures data users use your data correctly but also guarantees accurate results.
- Go beyond lineage.
- Lineage doesn't help users understand and use modeled data. ERDs do. refter will help you set up and visualize ERDs in no time.
- Clean graphs.
- Traditional tools miss the mark in making ERDs understandable. Our graph algorithm is tailored to visualize both simple and complex ERDs, maximizing their utility.
Manage change
Communicate change effectively.
Adapting to evolving metrics, data, and business requirements is a constant challenge. refter makes it easy to keep your end users in the loop about what, and why things change.
“Being able to effectively communicate how our data model is changing, why and when - all simply through our documentation - has been a life changer for us at Legume.”
Promote collaboration
Create a knowledge base.
Make collaboration easy. Say goodbye to slack threads or endless database tabs. refter makes it easy for team members to attach query snippets to any table in your catalog and share them.
- Intelligent
- refter automatically detects what tables you user in your query and will link it to those tables in your catalog.
- Auto-completion
- refter auto completes schema, table and column names to make writing sql easier and faster.
- Format SQL
- Format snippet sql with the click of a button. We'll help keep things organized and consistent.
- Permissions
- Manage what team members can view, edit or remove snippets for your organization.
Simple integration
Easy for you. Helpful to others.
refter easily integrates with your existing dbt project and doesn't need any additional dependencies. Everything is configured in your models `properties.yml`.
- Easy to integrate.
- No dependencies. All configuration is defined in your existing properties yaml as code.
- Multiple dbt projects.
- refter supports deploying multiple dbt projects to the same refter instance. We'll help you consolidate documentation and even combine lineage and ERDs.
- Easy to deploy.
- Simple deployment using our refter-cli or integrate directly into your CI/CD pipelines.
version: 2
models:
- name: user_events
description: User event streams for a session
config:
refter:
group: product
deprecated:
enabled: true
date: 2024-07-01
columns:
- name: owner
data_type: string
description: The user id for this event
refter:
relations:
- model: user_profile
column: owner
type: many-to-one
Stay on top of your data.
Refter enhances the default dbt docs experience. It adds the missing functionality you've been looking for.
- Ownership management
Clearly communicate and define who owns what asset in both code and the documentation UI.
- Hosted
We make access to your data documentation easy, and user management a breeze.
- Lineage
refter, just like the default dbt docs allows you to visualize and traverse through lineage.
Pricing
Helpful docs. Simple pricing.
30 day free trail. No credit card required. Powerful documentation doesn't have to be expensive.
Startup
All and everything refter has to offer.
$25 /month
- Multiple dbt projects
- Social auth
- Limited RBAC
- Lifecyle management & Snippets
Enterprise
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For when you're really working at scale.
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- Everything in startup
- SSO auth
- Fine-grained permissions
- Full support
Docs your stakeholders will actually use.
Start using refter today.
Easily integrate refter into your existing dbt project and start documenting your data today.