Looker

Connectivity Summary

By using Looks source code information, finding the data sources of a report and connecting those data sources to the Looks and their original source tables. Lineage is built only for reports of type Looks.

Connector Capabilities

The connector capabilities are shown below:

Crawling

Supported objects for Crawling are:

Folders
Dashboards
Looks
Dashboard Tiles
Looks Columns
Tile Columns

Please see this article Crawling Data for more details on crawling.

Profiling

There is no profiling as we do not support profiling for reporting frameworks.

Lineage Building

Lineage Entities	Details
Report lineage	Supported
ReportColumn lineage	Supported
Lineage Sources	Datasources

Pre-requisites

To use the connector, the following need to be available:

Connection details as specified in the following section should be available.
Service account with read privileges.

Connection Details

The following connection settings should be added for connecting to a Looker database:

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Database Type: Looker
Connection Name: Select a Connection name for the Looker. The name that you specify is a reference name to easily identify your Looker connection in OvalEdge. Example:Looker Connection
Host Name: Looker server url
Client Id: Provide Looker Client Id
Client Secret: Provide Looker Client Secret
Connection String

Once connectivity is established, additional configurations for Crawling and Profiling can be specified.

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Property	Details
Crawler Options
Reports	To fetch only reports(By default)
Report Columns	To fetch report column(Need to check while crawling)
Profile Options	No profile Option
Crawler Rules
Include Report Regex	Includes only reports which matches regex with report name
Exclude Report Regex	Excludes reports which matches regex with report name

Points to note

Viewer Permission is needed to crawl the reports and data sources.