Overview Looker integration steps

The Looker integration enables you to harvest Looker metadata and create new Looker assets in Data Catalog. Collibra analyzes and processes the Looker metadata and presents it as specific asset types, retaining their original names.

Important In the global assignment of each asset type included in the Power BILooker operating model, ensure that none of the characteristics that are in the operating model have a maximum cardinality of “0”. If the maximum cardinality is set to “0” for any such characteristics, ingestion will fail.

Steps

1. Set up Looker authentication.
2. Prepare a domain for Tableau ingestion.
3. Download and install the lineage harvester.
4. Prepare the lineage harvester configuration file.
5. Optionally, Prepare the <source ID> configuration file.
6. Start the lineage harvester again in the console and run the following command:
   • for Windows: .\bin\lineage-harvester.bat full-sync
   • for other operating systems: ./bin/lineage-harvester full-sync
When prompted, enter the password or client secret to connect to your Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud and Tableau environment. The passwords are encrypted and stored in /config/pwd.conf.

What's next?

You can check the progress of the ingestion in Activities. The results field indicates how many relations were imported into Data Catalog.

After the metadata is ingested in Data Catalog, you can go to the domain (or domains) that you specified in your lineage harvester configuration file and view the newly created assets.

You can also view the Looker technical lineage.

Warning We strongly recommend that you not edit the full names of any Looker assets. Doing so will likely lead to errors during the synchronization process.