How to reach Help Center for Looker Studio vs Looker
TL;DR; Please note that Looker Studio (formally known as Data Studio) is a distinct product from Looker. This ...
Administering Looker
Whether you’re setting up your Looker instance for the first time, orchestrating an administrative overhaul, dealing with day to day operations, or anything in between, this is the spot for discussion and best practices.
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Doc links from Looker appear to be broken
Hi Looker folks,We are experiencing links from LookML parameters and from other “help” icons within Looker to ...
Will the 12/21 Onboarding be recorded?
Hi, Pretty straight-forward question. I’ll be traveling over the holidays and may not be able to attend the on...
Default Explore Menu to be Closed by default
Is there anyway to default the left hand menus to be "default closed" when opening up Explore (instead of "def...
User Attribute System Time Zone Update
Hello:Looking for thoughts on ways to mass-update user time zones in Looker. I’ve seen other discussions like ...
Type of database and how S3 Bucket credentials are stored/encrypted
Hello,I am setting up a data export to an S3 bucket for a client. My client’s security team needs to know what...
Recover SFTP password from secret_parameters?
Hello,I’m working on a project where an old SFTP password has been lost. We have this password stored in looke...
Disabling data freshness
Hello There,I want to create a basic dashboard with some stats using looker studio.The underlying data is a ta...
Customer-hosted instances rendering issues with Chromium 98+ (Avoid installing versions 98 and 99)
For customer-hosted Looker instances, customers need to manage the chromium installation themselves. This is d...
Limit the rights to create boards for some users
Hello,We use looker in my company, and we want to create boards in order to show the relevant information for ...
Scheduled sends error: Query task xxxxx results not found in cache
Scheduled send fails with the error:‘Query task xxxx results not found in cache’ model-level max_cache_age is ...
Status Page (Looker hosted)
Hi Everyone, I’m curious to find out if looker hosted installs have an SLA yet and if there’s a dedicated stat...
Asking for Hackathon 2022: Limited Members per team
Hi there,I just registered for Looker Hackathon 2022 and there are some confuse that I need your advise and co...
Why do I keep getting a schedule failure email even after deleting the schedule?
I’m an admin on our Looker instance and for the past few weeks now, I’ve been getting a schedule failure email...
Seeing branch from other server connected to same repository
Hi all,We have two different servers (Development and Production) connected to the same BitBucket repo. To mig...
Unable to view markdown in instance using shared filestore
I am working through the tutorial for setting up a clustered instance here: https://help.looker.com/hc/en-us/a...
How do we confirm that upgrading to AES-256 GCM encryption succeeded?
We’ve followed the instructions outlined here. The encryption migration process returned success, we were able...
Identify the source of view (embedded vs. Looker UI) - System Activity
We have several dashboards which be available in the Looker UI and also embedded in our product. Currently, th...
Making announcements to specific user groups or to specific board
Hi, is there a way we can display an announcement to specific user groups only or to a specific board?We can m...
Content Security Policy Customization
Hi Looker team,We are currently customizing Looker by injecting a custom javascript file that modifies the UI ...
Beta enablement
If we enable the Beta Features and it breaks something, does the code automatically revert when we disable it?
Best Practice: GCP Project Design for Looker Workloads
These best practices reflect recommendations shared by a cross-functional team of seasoned Googlers. The pract...
Rejected Status OAuth question
We are using OAuth for a user to connect their Google Ads Account to our MCC account. The OAuth is not used to...
Filter by email for non-google accounts?
Now that we have Looker Studio, will we be able to filter by email for report viewers who do not have a Google...
On-Prem install gets "This Looker instance must be migrated to GCM encryption" message after successful migration/encryption
For On-Prem installations of Looker that want to use version 22.8 or higher, migration to AES-256 GCM encrypti...
Scheduling result
Good Day,I scheduled a look I only the table (result) that was generated which is limited to 500 row keep subm...
Multi tenancy in Looker
Hi, how to achieve multi tenancy in Looker?Will we be able to change the connection to BQ based on the tenant ...
How to discover our Account contact at Looker
We need to know the name and email address of our Looker contact for the vendor portion of our SOCS 2 audit. T...
set http root context path URL prefix
I would like to know if it is possible to set http root context path URL prefix.Adding a path prefix of "subfo...
Looker can not start because: Unable to unwrap key, invalid key provided.
./looker startLooker can not start because: Unable to unwrap key, invalid key provided.What is causing this? H...
Sending out report via mail
Hi folks,I was wondering if there is a solution to share reports with my colleagues via mail. Currently I am s...
