Google Looker connection

To access your data in Google Looker, create a connection asset for it.

Google Looker is a business intelligence software and big data analytics platform that helps you explore, analyze and share real-time business analytics.

Create a connection to Google Looker

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

Hostname or IP address
Port number of the Google Looker server
Client ID and Client secret

For Credentials, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Before you configure the connection, set up API3 credentials for your Google Looker instance. For details, see Google Looker API Authentication.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

This connection cannot be created in a FIPS environment.

Google Looker setup

Set up and administer Looker

Restriction

You can use this connection only for source data. You cannot write to data or export data with this connection.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Looker documentation, Using SQL Runner, for the correct syntax.

Supported file types

The Google Looker connection supports these file types: CSV, Delimited text, Excel, JSON.