Google Looker (Google Cloud core) API

Name: Looker (Google Cloud core) API
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Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Looker (Google Cloud core) API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Looker (Google Cloud core) API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fgoogleapis.com%2Fgoogle-looker" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fgoogleapis.com%2Fgoogle-looker" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Looker (Google Cloud core) API.

Provision and delete Looker instances within a Google Cloud project location

Restart a running Looker instance to apply configuration changes

Export instance configuration for backup or migration via the export operation

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For Agents

Provision and manage Looker (Google Cloud core) instance lifecycle: create instances, restart them, export and import configuration, and track long-running operations.

Use for: Provision a new Looker (Google Cloud core) instance in europe-west1, Restart an existing Looker instance to apply pending changes, Export the configuration of a Looker instance for backup, Import a previously exported Looker configuration into a fresh instance

Not supported: Does not handle Looker dashboards, queries, looks, or user content - use for instance provisioning, restart, export, import, and deletion only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Looker (Google Cloud core) API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Looker instance provisioning

Provision Looker (Google Cloud core) instances as part of an infrastructure-as-code workflow, specifying the region, OAuth client credentials, and platform edition. The API returns a long-running operation handle that resolves to the new instance once setup completes, typically taking 30-60 minutes.

Create a Looker instance named bi-prod in projects/acme/locations/europe-west1 with the LOOKER_CORE_STANDARD platform edition and poll the returned operation until done

Configuration export and migration

Export a Looker instance's configuration to Cloud Storage and import it into another instance to clone environments, migrate between regions, or seed a disaster-recovery instance. The export and import operations are long-running and surface their progress through the operations resource.

Trigger export on instance bi-staging targeting gs://acme-bi-backups/looker/2026-06.tar.gz and wait for the operation to complete

Lifecycle automation in CI/CD

Automate Looker instance restarts and deletions from a CI/CD pipeline so that ephemeral test environments are torn down on schedule and production instances are restarted for maintenance windows. The operations resource lets pipelines cancel runs that exceed their budget.

Restart instance projects/acme/locations/us-central1/instances/bi-prod and abort if the returned operation has not finished within 20 minutes

Agent integration via Jentic

AI agents managing Google Cloud analytics estates can use the Looker control-plane API through Jentic to spin up review instances, restart them after configuration changes, or clean up unused instances on a schedule, without holding the underlying OAuth refresh token in their prompt.

List all Looker instances in projects/acme older than 30 days with no recent operations and queue a delete request for each

Key Endpoints

11 endpoints — the looker (google cloud core) api manages the lifecycle of looker instances hosted as a google cloud service, including provisioning, restart, import, export, and deletion.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/{+parent}/instances

List Looker instances in a project location

DELETE

/v1/{+name}

Delete a Looker instance

POST

/v1/{+name}:restart

Restart a Looker instance

POST

/v1/{+name}:export

Export instance configuration

POST

/v1/{+name}:import

Import instance configuration

POST

/v1/{+name}:cancel

Cancel a long-running operation

GET

/v1/{+name}/locations

List supported locations

GET

/v1/{+name}/operations

List long-running operations

GET

/v1/{+parent}/instances

List Looker instances in a project location

DELETE

/v1/{+name}

Delete a Looker instance

POST

/v1/{+name}:restart

Restart a Looker instance

POST

/v1/{+name}:export

Export instance configuration

POST

/v1/{+name}:import

Import instance configuration

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring the Looker (Google Cloud core) API by hand means setting up Google OAuth 2.0 with the cloud-platform scope, minting bearer tokens, and polling long-running provisioning operations yourself against the looker.googleapis.com host. Through Jentic you install once, import the Looker (Google Cloud core) API from the API Directory, store the OAuth credential once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

The Looker API puts the instance name in the URL path (/v1/{+name}...), so a rule can pin your agent to one Looker instance: it can list and export for that instance and nothing else. You choose the operations it may call, so destructive ones like instance deletion or restart are not included unless you add them.

Credential isolation

Your Google OAuth credential is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'provision a Looker instance' or 'export a Looker instance', and Jentic returns the matching control-plane operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using Looker (Google Cloud core) API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Looker (Google Cloud core) API use?

The control-plane API uses Google OAuth 2.0 with the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform scope. Through Jentic, the OAuth credentials are held in the encrypted vault and the agent receives only a scoped bearer token, so the refresh token never enters the agent's context.

Can I provision a Looker instance through this API?

Yes, instances are created as a long-running operation under projects/{project}/locations/{location}/instances. The call returns an operation handle which you poll on /v1/{+name}/operations until the new instance is ready.

What are the rate limits for the Looker (Google Cloud core) API?

Quotas are managed per Google Cloud project under the Looker API service in the Cloud Console quotas page. Most lifecycle calls are subject to default per-minute and per-day quotas; concurrent long-running operations per project are also capped.

How do I restart a Looker instance through Jentic?

Search Jentic for restart looker instance, load the operation that maps to /v1/{+name}:restart, and execute with the instance resource path. Jentic injects the OAuth bearer token and returns the long-running operation that you can poll until done.

Is the Looker (Google Cloud core) API free?

The control-plane API itself does not have separate charges, but Looker (Google Cloud core) instances are billed per platform edition and per active user. See Google Cloud's Looker pricing page for current rates.

Does this API let me run Looker queries or load dashboards?

No, this is the control-plane API for instance lifecycle only. Running queries, fetching dashboards, and managing looks happen via the in-instance Looker SDK on the running instance, not through this API.

Google Looker (Google Cloud core) API

Connect the Looker (Google Cloud core) API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Looker (Google Cloud core) API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

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