Overview

This integration collects metadata and field-level data lineage for objects in your Looker account.

Data Catalog Assets

The integration builds a representation of the following Looker objects:

• Explores
• Views
• Derived Tables
• Fields
• Looks
• Dashboards
• Folders

Lineage

The integration generates field-level lineage between:

• Warehouse tables and columns, and downstream Looker views and derived tables
• Looker views and other Looker objects, such as dashboards and explores

Setup

Installation

No installation steps are required.

Configuration

Create a Looker API key

1. Go to your Looker dashboard (for example, at https://<your_company>.cloud.looker.com).
2. Navigate to Admin > Users.
3. Select the user you want to create an API key for.
4. Next to API Keys, click Edit Keys.
5. Click New API Key.
6. Copy the client ID and secret.

Add the API credentials to Datadog

1. Navigate to the Looker tile.
2. Click Configure > + Add New Account.
3. Fill out the form with the following:
   • Account name: A label to identify this Looker instance
   • Instance URL: The URL of your Looker instance (for example, https://company.cloud.looker.com)
   • Client ID: The client ID from the previous step
   • API Secret: The client secret from the previous step
4. Click Save.

Connect LookML repositories

Datadog parses LookML files to collect lineage and metadata for Looker views and derived tables.

Connect each LookML Git repository to Datadog using the Source Code Integration. The next time the Looker integration runs on its hourly schedule, it automatically detects the repositories and parses the LookML files.

If your Git repositories already appear on the Datadog repositories page, no additional steps are required.

Validation

It can take up to 60 minutes for data to appear after the initial setup.

Check the Data Catalog to verify that your Looker account appears and that the expected catalog assets are present.

Data Collected

Metrics

Events

This integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

This integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.