Global CLI flags
dbt commands, such as run
or test
, support their own command-specific CLI flags. In addition, the dbt command itself supports "global" flags applicable to all subcommands.
As of v1.0, the vast majority of global CLI flags map to global configs, which can also be configured via environment variables or in the profiles.yml
.
The --version
and --record-timing-info
flags remain available to the CLI only.
Version
The --version
flag returns information about the currently installed version of dbt.
Usage
$ dbt --version
installed version: 0.15.1
latest version: 0.15.1
Up to date!
Record timing info
The -r
or --record-timing-info
flag saves performance profiling information to a file. This file can be visualized with snakeviz
to understand the performance characteristics of a dbt invocation
Usage
$ dbt -r timing.txt run
...
$ snakeviz timing.txt
0