Lightweight DAG viewer for Coalesce.io repos with include/exclude node selectors and subgraph navigation. Unofficial; not affiliated with or endorsed by Coalesce.io.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
See your Coalesce pipeline as a DAG, right inside VS Code. Coalesce Viewer
reads the YAML your Coalesce repo already has checked in and turns it into a live, filterable graph
— no need to leave your editor or open the Coalesce app just to see how things connect.
Unofficial. This is an independent, community-built tool and is not affiliated with,
endorsed by, or supported by Coalesce.io. "Coalesce" is a trademark of its respective owner,
referenced here only to describe compatibility.
Features
DAG view — a pan/zoom graph of every node in your repo, laid out automatically and colored by
node type, with edges drawn from the real dependencies Coalesce records (column lineage, explicit
multi-source mappings, and ref() references).
Include / Exclude filtering — narrow the graph live with a small, dbt-inspired query language:
jump to a node's whole upstream or downstream tree, filter by tag/type/location, or glob-match by
name. See Selector syntax below.
Side panel navigation — browse every node grouped by type, jump straight to one, and open its
YAML with a click.
Subgraphs — the subgraphs you've already grouped in Coalesce itself show up as one-click filters,
so you can pull up just the "Customer Pipeline" or "Order Pipeline" slice of the DAG instantly.
Show Changed Nodes — filter the graph down to exactly what your current branch has added or
modified, committed or not. A quick way to see what a branch or PR actually touches before you
open a review.
Always current — the graph refreshes automatically as node and subgraph YAML change on disk.
Selector syntax
Include/Exclude fields accept one or more space/comma-separated selectors; results are unioned.
Selector
Matches
ORDERS
Node named ORDERS (case-insensitive)
STG_*
Glob match on node name
+ORDERS
ORDERS and all of its ancestors (upstream)
ORDERS+
ORDERS and all of its descendants (downstream)
+ORDERS+
ORDERS plus ancestors and descendants
2+ORDERS
ORDERS and ancestors up to 2 hops away
ORDERS+2
ORDERS and descendants up to 2 hops away
tag:core
Nodes tagged core
type:dimension
Nodes whose node type matches (checks both the display name and the short code)
location:SAMPLE
Nodes whose storage location matches
path:staging/**
Nodes whose YAML file path (relative to the repo root) matches the glob
Exclude is applied after include (include - exclude). Leave a field blank to mean "everything"
(include) or "nothing" (exclude).
