October 26, 2026 · Vistelio
Most business users never open an Explore — they live in Sheets and Slides. This tutorial covers the two governed exits from your semantic layer into Google Workspace: Connected Sheets for Looker and Looker Reports (the Looker Studio-native reporting surface inside Looker), including the LookML, permissions, and performance work that makes them safe.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2026 · Vistelio
Your LookML is in Git; your permission model probably is not. This tutorial shows how to define Looker instance configuration — permission sets, model sets, roles, groups, and user attributes — in a spec file, reconcile it idempotently with the Looker Python SDK, manage the stable parts in Terraform, and run a nightly drift check in CI.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026
Looker is a versatile data analytics platform that allows businesses to gain meaningful insights from their data. However, not every piece of information is relevant for all users, and some data might be confidential or sensitive. Hence, managing access to data becomes crucial. Looker provides a feature known as role-based access control (RBAC), which allows administrators to control who can see and do what within the Looker platform. This article will guide you through implementing role-based access control in Looker.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · Vistelio
The complete guide to row-level security in Looker: user attributes, access_filter, sql_always_where with _user_attributes, access_grant and required_access_grants, embed users, the things that silently break RLS, and how to test the boundary.
Read moreAugust 25, 2026 · Vistelio
Private versus signed versus SSO embedding, generating signed embed URLs server side, the Embed SDK 2.x in the browser, user attributes for row-level security in embeds, and cookieless embedding for browsers that block third-party cookies.
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