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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SSO/MFA Integration with PingFederate and PingOne
Any Ping users here?I've been tasked with implementing SSO and MFA with PingFederate and PingOne via SAML. I i...
[Best Practice] Manage Looker Projects
Hello everyone! In our company, we work actively with Looker on a daily basis. We are a company of 650 employe...
MariaDB configuration in Looker
I have a few questions regarding configuring MariaDB under Looker:Besides the looker UI, is there another way ...
Role that only can Add Users, Edit User Attributes, without giving full Admin access
Hello,I might be missing it, but is there a way to have a role that is truly like a lower level administrator....
Is it possible to access a data model defined in Looker from another client outside Looker?
I would like to know if it is possible to see a model defined in Looker from outside, for example with a JDBC ...
Can we select just dashboards from a specific project in System Activity explores?
We want to monitor the performance of some specific dashboards, created in one project. But the project name d...
Looker UI response time testing with Python and Selenium
We self-host Looker (“on-prem”) and have encountered several issues where Looker’s performance degraded into 5...
Duplicate Dashboards
Hi,I want to understand how much content is duplicated within our Looker instance.Any recommendations on how I...
User Login number
I’d like to check how many time a user/viewer is login in Looker within a period of 3 months (not the last log...
Log4j Vulnerability in Looker Stand-Alone Instances?
Is there a concern for the recent log4j vulnerability with looker and if so is there a patch?
Looker billing
We are a GCP user and we are somehow getting bills for Looker in our payments console as a subscribed service ...
schedule and send report(excel, csv, pdf) to email, but users are able to view part/full report according to roles.
Suppose, I have to schedule a dashboard report (export to excel/csv/pdf and email) to county, region and area ...
Embedded Dashboards Topic
Looker Team ,There seems to be more customers starting to embed dashboards either into their own portals, and/...
# of User Log ins per user
I would like to check how many times each user/viewer is logging in looker. So simply how much they are using ...
User attributes page - can't set landing page
I’m trying to change the landing page for my user:After I click save and then refresh the page, it comes back ...
User Attributes page - UI issue
These scrollbars seem bizzare considering there’s plenty of space:
Looker + BitBucket - deployments with webhook and secret key
Has anybody seen a way to add a Secret Key to a webhook on BitBucket repository?I could not find a way to add ...
How do you structure user access
Hi AllI am looking for some advice on how to structure access and permission at my company in Looker.We are cu...
OAuth connections and BigQuery federated tables
Hi AllWe frequently use federated (external) tables within BigQuery, that look over a google sheet. Looker is ...
Git Repos in Multistage environment
Hi all.I’d like to ask if it’s suggested to have one Git Repo or Multiple Git Repos for a use case where there...
Alerts with Slack Attachment (API Token) action
Hello all,I’ve ben looking into setting up Looker alerts (guideline) which to be sent into Slack channels. Ini...
Encrypt the file before storing file into Google cloud storage from looker ?
Through looker action i am strong result in Google cloud storage bucket with CSV file format. this file needs ...
Looker AngularJS version
Can anyone please provide me with the current version of AngularJS used by Looker?Thanks!
Where can I find permission descriptions?
Hi all!When creating a permission set, I see all of the permissions that are applicable. When I hover over the...
Please stabilise IP address changes for Looker allowlists
I track the “Enabling secure database access” page on the Looker docs, as part of maintaining a Terraform modu...
Sharing a Dashboard with Internal Team - Auto-Run Updates
I’m looking to provide a team with the capabilities of having their dashboard on a TV screen for real-time upd...
Deploy Security Objects (Roles and Groups) from Dev to QA using GIT
I would like to create and test security Roles and Groups in Dev and Deploy them to QA using GIT. Are there an...
How do I customize the menu bar and/or the login page colors?
Hello,We recently updated to Looker 21.18.17 and the background color of the menu bar was updated to white cau...
Launching chatbot for Looker support chat widget
Disclaimer: The chatbot is only accessible to users who are permitted to use chats; there’s no change in our c...
Unable to see data on dashboard after sharing to a internal user
Hi All,Being an Admin to Looker, created a dashboard and shared to Internal user.After providing full permissi...
