Looker

Create Looker API Credentials

Create API credentials on the Users page in the Admin section of your Looker instance. If you are not the Looker admin, have your Looker admin to create the API credentials for you.

To generate API keys on the Users page, click the Edit Keys button. The Edit User API Keys page opens and shows the existing API keys. Click the New API key button to generate a new key.

Connect Looker to Revefi

The API credentials that you generated include a client ID and a client secret. You'll need to provide these to the Looker connection within Revefi along with the URL for your Looker instance via the Connections page in app.revefi.com:

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Partial lineage in some Looker scenarios

You may observe incomplete lineage representation within Revefi for Looker Persistent Derived Tables. To enable full lineage tracking for Persistent Derived Tables, please contact us.

Troubleshooting connection issues

Error: Validation failed. Please check your credentials.

This typically means that Revefi was unable to verify the credentials for Looker. To validate that the information provided is accurate, please run the following commands

curl -d "client_id=<value>&client_secret=<value>" https://<hostname>.<subdomain>.<domain>.com:19999/api/4.0/login

The above mentioned command will generate an access token.

Please check the client id, client secret and the URL in case token generation fails

Once the token is generated, please run the following command

curl --location --request GET 'https://<hostname>.<subdomain>.<domain>.com:19999/api/4.0/user' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--header 'Authorization: token <access token from the previous command>'

If the following command succeeds, please contact Revefi support.