Looker

Column-level lineage and details in data dictionary become available within 15-20 minutes after integration.

Create integration

To enable Masthead for Looker, please follow the next steps:

Create a permission set

• In the navigation bar go to Admin > Roles and click New Permission Set.
• Name your permission set masthead_permissions.
• Select the necessary permissions:

access_data
access_data.see_lookml_dashboards
access_data.see_looks
access_data.see_looks.see_user_dashboards
access_data.see_looks.explore
access_data.see_looks.see_lookml
see_system_activity

Looker permissions

• Click New Permission Set to save.

Create a role

• Go to Admin > Roles and click New Role.
• Name a new role masthead_role.
• Select the permission set masthead_permissions.
• Select a model set All.
• Click New Role to save.

Create a user and save API credentials

• Go to Admin > Users and click Add -> Service Account.
• Enter a Service Account Name to masthead_service_account.
• Toggle Create default set of API credentials option ON.
• Select the role masthead_role.
• Click Save.
• Click Edit Keys and copy Client ID and Client Secret values.

Check content read access for a Masthead user

You can decide which folders to give access to.

• Go to Admin > Content Access.
• Select Shared folder and click Manage Access…. Check that All Users group already has View or Manage/Edit Access.
• Click Save.
• Repeat with the Users and other folders.

Note

If your Looker instance has restricted content access, you may need to add the masthead_service_account user to specific folders.

Create a group, add the Masthead user to it, and give the group View access to the necessary folders.

Completing Looker integration configuration

• Open Integrations page in Masthead and click Connect for Looker.
• Enter Host URL and port - address of your Looker instance.
• Enter Client ID and Client Secret you’ve copied in the previous step.
• Click Save.

Looker integration configuration is complete.