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About the Looker collector

Use this collector to connect to your Looker instance and harvests Looker assets.

Important

The Looker collector can be run in the Cloud or on-premise using Docker or Jar files.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.249. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

What is cataloged

The information cataloged by the collector includes metadata for the following Looker resources.

Table 1.

Object

Information cataloged

Dashboard

Name, Identifier, Number of favorites, Number of views, Created at, Last accessed date, External URL

Dashboard Element

Name, Identifier

Look

Name, Identifier, Description, Updated At, Created at

Explore

Name, Identifier, Description, External URL

Dimensions

Name, Identifier, Description

Measures

Name, Identifier, Description

View

Name, Identifier

Folder

Name, Identifier, Created at



Relationship between objects

By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world Solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.

Table 2.

Resource page

Relationship

Dashboard

  • Dashboard Elements contained within Dashboard

  • Folder containing Dashboard

Dashboard Element

  • Dashboard containing Dashboard Element

  • Explore that provides data for Dashboard Element

Look

  • Explore that provides data for Look

Explore

  • Dimension contained within Explore

  • Measure contained within Explore

  • Dashboard Element that use data from Explore

  • Looks that use data from Explore

Dimensions

  • Explore containing Dimension

Measures

  • Explore containing Measure

Folder

  • Dashboard contained within Folder



Lineage for Looker

The following lineage information is collected by the Looker collector.

Table 3.

Object

Lineage available

Individual dashboard elements

Explores

Looks

Explores

Explores

Databases and Schemas



Supported versions of Looker

The collector supports the following Looker API version:

  • Looker API v 4.0

Authentication supported

  • The collector supports authenticating to Looker APIs using client secrets.