Power BI Monitoring for dbt Core
Teams that ask about dbt core vs dbt cloud usually need to monitor both sides of the comparison together. dbt Core users run transformations in their own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps). There is no hosted dashboard for job runs — results live in logs and artifacts. MetricSign integrates via webhook: your CI/CD pipeline calls MetricSign after each dbt run, uploading the manifest and run results, which are then correlated with Power BI refresh events.
What you can monitor
- Receive alerts when a self-hosted dbt Core run fails, including which models failed
- Automatically map dbt model outputs to Power BI datasets using manifest lineage
- Detect when a dbt schema change breaks a Power BI measure or column
- See dbt run results next to Power BI refresh history without needing dbt Cloud
How MetricSign helps
MetricSign vs alternatives
Existing tools like dbt Cloud, Custom Slack/email notifications, Airflow task monitoring are built for their own domain — not for connecting dbt Core failures to downstream Power BI report health. MetricSign bridges that gap: you get one incident feed that covers both layers without switching between dashboards.