After you connect Looker, Elementary will automatically and continuously extend the column-level-lineage to the dashboard level.
This will provide you end-to-end data lineage to understand your downstream dependencies, called exposures.
To follow the least privilege security principle, before creating user for Elementary, create a permission set that allows to do only what is needed for Elementary to work.
Create a Permission Set
In Looker, go to Admin > Roles. Click “New Permission Set”.
Name the Permission Set “Elementary permissions” and check the boxes for the following permissions:
access_data
see_lookml_dashboards
see_looks
see_user_dashboards
see_sql
see_lookml
develop
Create a role
Click “New Role”.
Name the role “Elementary Role” as well.
Select the “Elementary permissions” permission set
Navigate to the Account settings > Environments and choose the environment to which you would like to connect Looker.
Choose the Looker BI connection and provide the following details to validate and complete the integration.
Host URL: Copy and paste the URL you see when you visit the homepage of your Looker instance. e.g. https://company.cloud.looker.com/
Client ID: The client ID you generated on Looker.
Client secret: The client secret you generated on Looker.