Looker OCF Connector Release Notes

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

October 09, 2024

Looker OCF Connector: Version 2.1.0

Enhancements

Support for Cataloging for Explores and Looks Fields

Supports cataloging Explores as BI datasources and Looks fields. Each Explore is cataloged as a datasource, has its own Fields and Connections, and is available as part of lineage.

Support for Column-Level Lineage

Supports lineage at the column level for the following RDBMS data sources:

  • Amazon Redshift

  • MySQL

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • Oracle

  • PostgreSQL

  • Snowflake

Note

Enable the connector setting Extract superseded (legacy) objects with type as LookML and Datasource to extract older objects that were phased out and are now embodied with Explores. These older objects will be available in catalog pages (not in lineage). By default this setting is disabled (Recommended).

(AL-164600)

May 22, 2024

Looker OCF Connector: Version 2.0.2

Enhancements

Update to Looker API

As per of the notice from Looker, Alation has updated the query_id in the GET /queries/<query_id> API now uses a slug value instead of a numeric value. (AL-147590)

Note

There are no impacts to any of the features supported by the Looker OCF Connector.