On-Premise Management

Get Started with Looker
- Looker’s Different Sections
- Personalizing Looker
  - Your User Account
- Keyboard Shortcuts
  - Keyboard Shortcuts in Looker
- Video Tutorials

Latest Features
- Updates for General Users
  - What’s New for Browsing and Exploring
- Full Release Notes

Find and Organize Content
- Finding and Viewing Content
- Organizing Content
  - Organizing with Spaces
- For Developers and Admins
  - Deleted and Unused Content for Admins

Send and Share Content
- Send and Share Content

Retrieve and Chart Data

Create Dashboards and Reports
- Creating Saved Reports (Looks)
  - Saving and Editing Looks
- Creating User-Defined Dashboards
- Creating and Managing LookML Dashboards

Get Ready for Development
- Development Process
- SQL in Looker
  - How Looker Generates SQL
  - Using SQL Runner
- Setting Up a Project
- Setting Up a Database
  Connection

Write LookML
- Getting Started with LookML
  - Steps to Learning LookML
  - Video Tutorials
- Basic Concepts
- Advanced Concepts
- LookML Reference

Use Embedding and the API
- Looker API
- Embedding

Setup and Administer Looker
- Getting Started with Setup and Admin
- Installation and Maintenance
- Setting Up a Database
  Connection
- Admin Tutorials
- Admin Panel Reference

On-Premise Management

If you’ve chosen to manage your own Looker instance, this page provides information about ongoing maintenance. If you’re looking for initial installation steps check out our On-Premise Installation Steps page.

Select a subtopic to dive in:

Updating a Looker Instance
Update Looker to stay current with new features and fixes.
Moving Looker to a New Host
Move Looker from one host to another.
Configuration Management Tools
View an example Ansible role for a simplified Looker deployment.
Restoring Backups
Restore Looker to a new host or in a cluster.
Recommended Java Memory Settings
Allocate the appropriate amount of memory to the Looker application.