Ingest

Ingesting is the first step. anfra ingest imports your project's context into the Semantic Catalog, and search and lineage then read from the catalog, not from your files:

anfra ingest

Run it again whenever your AML or a context source changes, so the catalog stays up to date.

Context sourcesCopy Anchor Link

List dbt and LookML projects as context sources in .anfra/context_sources.yml

# .anfra/context_sources.yml
sources:
  - name: dbt_main
    type: dbt
    local: { path: ../analytics-dbt }   # the dbt project
  - name: looker
    type: lookml
    local: { path: ../looker-project }  # the LookML project directory

Each source has:

Run anfra ingest after you add a source.

dbtCopy Anchor Link

anfra reads the compiled manifest at target/manifest.json inside the dbt project, not the model files. Run dbt compile (or any command that builds the manifest, such as dbt run) before anfra ingest so the manifest is present and up to date.

LookMLCopy Anchor Link

Point path at the LookML project directory. anfra reads its LookML files directly.