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troubleshooting-dbt-job-errors

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Find out why your dbt Cloud job failed.

What it does

Diagnoses failed dbt Cloud jobs and produces a root-cause fix or documented investigation findings.

When to use it

Use for failed dbt Cloud or dbt platform jobs, especially intermittent failures, unclear errors, or failures after a merge; not for local development errors.

How to use it

Give it a failed job in a dbt project; it investigates and produces a tested fix with a pull request, or a committed findings document if unresolved.

What you provide

  • the failed job
  • An existing project

Uses

Good to know

  • cannot be undone: pull requests

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What you need · 2

Uses the dbt CLI to compile a failing test and query its underlying data during data/test-failure investigations.

Directs data/test-failure investigations to this skill to inspect actual data; whether it must already be installed is unstated.


Access · 3

This skill

pull requests

Write

Posts a fix pull request (irreversible)

dbt Cloud

Read

Reads dbt Cloud job failures