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:

1

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

Looker permissions

• Click New Permission Set to save.

2

Create a role

• Go to Admin > Roles and click New Role.

• Name a new role masthead_role.

• Select permission set masthead_permissions.

• Click New Role to save.

3

Create a user

• Go to Admin > Users and click Add Users.

• Enter an email address [email protected].

• Uncheck the Send setup emails option.

• Select the role you created (masthead_role).

• Click Save.

4

Set content Folders read access for Masthead user

• Go to Admin > Content Access.

• Note: At this point, you can decide which folders to give access to.

• Select Shared folder and click Manage Access: unless All Users group already has View or Manage/Edit Access, add the Masthead user you just created with View access.

• Click Save.

• Repeat with the Users folder.

5

Create an API key

• Go to Admin > Users and click Edit on the new user you created for Masthead.

• Click Edit Keys and then New API Key.

• Copy Client ID and Client Secret values.

6

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.