Create a Looker connection to an Edge site

Tip You can set up this integration in the unified integrations experience (in preview). This feature is in public preview and applies to metadata, AI, SAP, and lineage integrations. In one guided flow, you select an Edge site, create the connection, add the integration, and configure it. To get started, in the banner on the Integration configuration tab, click Try the new Integrations page. For more information, go to About the unified integrations experience (in preview).

To retrieve data from Looker, you have to connect to Looker via the Edge site.

Prerequisites

• You have a global role with the Product Rights > System administration global permission.
• You have a global role that has the Manage Edge sites global permission.
• You have a global role that has the Manage connections and capabilities global permission.
• You have a resource role with the Configure external system resource permission, for example, Owner.
• You have either a Looker user with the Admin role, or a Looker user with a custom role that has the permissions mentioned in Set up Looker.
If you want to add connection values from a vault, you have added the vault to your Edge site. If your data source connection requires a file from your vault, the file must be encoded into Base64 and stored as a regular secret in your vault. For more information, go to the Vault documentation.
Note  Vaults are not supported on Collibra Cloud sites.

Steps

1. Open a site.
   1. On the main toolbar, click → Settings.
      The Settings page opens.
   2. In the tab pane, click Edge.
      The Sites tab opens and shows a table with an overview of your sites.
   3. In the site overview, click the name of a site.
      The site page appears.
2. In the Connections section, click Create Connection.
   The Create Connection dialog box appears.
3. Select Looker connection.
4. Enter the required information.
   

   Field	Description	Required
   Name	The name of the connection. The name can be anything, as long as it is unique. Tip The name that you provide here is the name you have to select in the Looker connection field, when adding the Technical Lineage for Looker capability to the Edge site.	Yes
   Description	The description of the connection.	No
   Vault	The vault where you store your data source values.	No
   Looker URL	The URL to your Looker API. Tip There are two ways to find the Looker API URL: In the API Host URL field in the Looker Admin menu. If this field is empty, you can use the default Looker API URL which you can find in the interactive API documentation. In the interactive API documentation URL. It is the part of the URL before /api-docs/. Note Looker 3.1 APIs are deprecated; however, the API3 credentials for authorization and access control remain valid. You can add this property from your vault. For more information, go to the vault documentation.	Yes
   Client ID	The username you use to access the Looker API. You can add this property from your vault. For more information, go to the vault documentation.	Yes
   Client secret key	The secret key you use to access the Looker API. You can add this property from your vault. For more information, go to the vault documentation.	Yes

5. Click Create.
   

What's next

Add the Technical Lineage for Looker capability to your Edge or Collibra Cloud site.