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Looker

Enterprise business intelligence, embedded analytics, and semantic data modeling platform.

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Naming timeline

  1. Looker

    · Google Cloud acquisition of Looker

    Enterprise BI and LookML semantic modeling platform joined Google Cloud in February 2020 (with Looker (Google Cloud core) launching in 2023).

  2. Looker (Enterprise Platform only)Current name

    · April 16, 2026 Data Studio reversion

    Refers strictly to the enterprise BI & semantic modeling platform after Looker Studio reverted to Data Studio.

What is Looker?

Looker is a Google Cloud product. Enterprise business intelligence, embedded analytics, and semantic data modeling platform. Its most recent naming change took effect on 16 April 2026 (April 16, 2026 Data Studio reversion).

Also known as

  • Looker (Google Cloud core)
  • Looker (original)

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. This entry clarifies scope and naming rather than documenting a rename; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below are the current identifiers.

REST / gRPC APIslooker.googleapis.com
gcloud / CLI Commandsgcloud looker
IAM Predefined Rolesroles/looker.*
Terraform Resourcesgoogle_looker_instance

Managed via looker.googleapis.com for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Does not include the self-service dashboarding tool, which reverted from Looker Studio back to Data Studio on April 16, 2026.
  • Encompasses both Google Cloud console-managed instances ('Looker (Google Cloud core)') and legacy Looker-hosted/customer-hosted instances ('Looker (original)').

Sources & official documentation

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