Looker & LookML Ingestion Guide: Overview

What You Will Get Out of This Guide

This guide will help you set up the Looker & LookML connectors to begin ingesting metadata into DataHub. Upon completing this guide, you will have a recurring ingestion pipeline to extract metadata from Looker & LookML and load it into DataHub.

Looker

Looker connector will ingest Looker asset types:

• Dashboards
• Charts
• Explores
• Schemas
• Owners of Dashboards

note

To get complete Looker metadata integration (including Looker views and lineage to the underlying warehouse tables), you must also use the lookml connector.

LookML

LookMl connector will include the following LookML asset types:

• LookML views from model files in a project
• Metadata for dimensions
• Metadata for measures
• Dimension Groups as tag

note

To get complete Looker metadata integration (including Looker views and lineage to the underlying warehouse tables), you must also use the looker connector.

Next Steps

Please continue to the setup guide, where we'll describe the prerequisites.

Reference

If you want to ingest metadata from Looker using the DataHub CLI, check out the following resources:

• Learn about CLI Ingestion in the Introduction to Metadata Ingestion
• Looker Ingestion Source