This page explains how to install the Looker application for customers who are hosting an on-premises Looker deployment. Throughout our documentation, we refer to these as "customer-hosted" deployments.
We also offer the option for Looker to host your Looker deployment. Throughout our documentation we refer to these as "Looker-hosted" deployments. Using a Looker-hosted instance greatly reduces the effort required to install, configure, and maintain the Looker application, because Looker handles all necessary IT functions that are related to the Looker application for you.
Complete the following steps:
Install Looker:
Once your instance is set up, you're ready to get started with development.
Features that require additional configuration
The following Looker features require additional configuration or software to use:
| Feature | Additional configuration or alternative |
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| Paper Size | Install Chromium renderer |
| Expand tables | |
Sending, scheduling, downloading:
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| Downloading custom visualizations | |
Maintenance tasks:
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Self-manage |
| Elite System Activity | Set up a read replica of the Looker backend database |
| Looker Action Hub | To address the potential issue of the Looker Action Hub not being able to communicate with the Looker instance, Looker admins can implement one of the following solutions. The appropriate solution or combination of solutions will depend on the architecture of the Looker instance:
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| Unpackaged JDBC drivers | Install JDBC driver |
| Load Assets from CDN | Enable the Load Assets from CDN admin setting to load assets from the CDN |
| Enabling secure database access | If your customer-hosted Looker instance is not on the same private network as its connected database, be sure to secure your data as well, perhaps using one of the following options:
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| Create a backup of a Looker instance | Generate a keystore-independent backup |
| Installing tools from the Looker Marketplace | Set up a shared (network) file system |
| Auto Install assets from the Looker Marketplace / API Explorer | If you are installing the API Explorer on a customer-hosted Looker instance, for users to view API examples, the server running the Looker instance must be configured to access the public internet server running at the URL https://githubusercontent.com. |
| Upgrading from OpenJDK 8 to OpenJDK 11 | Manual upgrade |
| Allowing Looker Support to access a customer-hosted deployment | Allowlist the IP address for Looker Support |