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Lineage shows how data flows through pipelines: which source columns feed which transforms and which destination columns they populate. Column-level lineage answers audit questions that table-level graphs cannot.

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Premium+ feature

Fine-grained lineage (column mapping across complex SQL and multi-hop graphs) requires Premium+ or Enterprise entitlements, depending on your contract. Table-only lineage previews may appear on lower tiers. Your billing admin can confirm the exact SKU.

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Column lineage visualization

Open a pipeline and launch the Lineage view. Select a destination column to highlight upstream columns and intermediate expressions. Select a source column to see every sink it influences.
Use lineage during code review: if a column shows unexpected upstream paths, investigate joins and aliases before merge.

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Table-level lineage

Table-level graphs summarize nodes as black boxes—useful for executive summaries and coarse impact checks. Drill down to column lineage when you need proof for regulators or internal auditors.
Lineage parses SELECT lists, joins, and unions when dialect features are supported; dynamic SQL may appear partially resolved—document such nodes manually.
Visual transforms emit lineage when metadata is explicit; custom code may require annotations.

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Operational uses

When a dashboard breaks, trace the broken metric to the warehouse column and upstream ingestion job in minutes instead of hours.

Impact analysis

Quantify downstream scope of changes.

Pipelines overview

Author graphs lineage can parse.