looker-health-pulse
“looker-health-pulse” performs health checks on a Looker instance, with multiple actions available (e.g., checking database connections, dashboard performance, etc).
About
The looker-health-pulse tool performs health checks on a Looker instance. The action parameter selects the type of check to perform:
check_db_connections: Checks all database connections, runs supported tests, and reports query counts.check_dashboard_performance: Finds dashboards with slow running queries in the last 7 days.check_dashboard_errors: Lists dashboards with erroring queries in the last 7 days.check_explore_performance: Lists the slowest explores in the last 7 days and reports average query runtime.check_schedule_failures: Lists schedules that have failed in the last 7 days.check_legacy_features: Lists enabled legacy features. (To note, this function is not available in Looker Core. You will get an error running this command with a Core instance configured.)
Parameters
| field | type | required | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | true | Must be “looker-health-pulse” |
| source | string | true | Looker source name |
| action | string | true | The health check to perform |
Example
tools:
pulse:
kind: looker-health-pulse
source: looker-source
description: |
Pulse Tool
Performs health checks on Looker instance.
Specify the `action` parameter to select the check.
parameters:
action: check_dashboard_performance
Reference
| action | description |
|---|---|
| check_db_connections | Checks all database connections and reports query counts and errors |
| check_dashboard_performance | Finds dashboards with slow queries (>30s) in the last 7 days |
| check_dashboard_errors | Lists dashboards with erroring queries in the last 7 days |
| check_explore_performance | Lists slowest explores and average query runtime |
| check_schedule_failures | Lists failed schedules in the last 7 days |
| check_legacy_features | Lists enabled legacy features |