Hey there, has anyone had any luck adding global owners to elementary alerts for sources in the

dbt_project.yml

file? For example, in my

dbt_project.yml

file, I have this but it did not work.

sources:
  +meta:
    owner: "@alex.wong"

I've also tried this

sources:
  subfolder:
    +meta:
      owner: "@alex.wong"

Hey Alex! • Making sure that sources is at top level, with no indentation • Try adding + before the owner field Let me know if this helps 🙌

Hey @Noya Offer thanks for getting back. Unfortunately none of these suggestions worked 😔 I've tried the following and ensured that they are at the top level with no indentation

sources:
  directory:
    subfolder:
      +meta:
        owner: "@alex.wong"

sources:
  directory:
    subfolder:
      +meta:
        +owner: "@alex.wong"

When looking at the dbt tree in the report, does the subfolder exist? Also, do you receive any warning on

dbt run

?

Hi @Noya Offer yes the subfolder exists and no I don't receive any warnings.

Great! Waiting for your conclusion 🙂

Hey Noya, here's the conclusion/solution! If you want to control the alert owners at the table level, this worked in the

source.yml

.

sources:
  - name: source_name
    database: db
    schema: schema
    tables:
      - name: orders
        loaded_at_field: last_modified
        freshness:
          warn_after: {count: 24, period: hour}
        meta:
          owner: "@alex.wong"

If you want to apply it at the top level, this worked in the

dbt_project.yml

.

sources:
  directory:
    subfolder:
      +meta:
        owner: "@alex.wong"

The reason why it wasn't working initially is because I was only running a

dbt source freshness

command, but per the documentation, the dbt artifacts are only updated by an on-run-end hook, which is only done after

dbt run / test / build

🫠

@Alex Wong Thank you for sharing this! I'll add this to our docs.