Looker Studio is a free data visualization and reporting tool from Google that lets users create interactive dashboards and reports by connecting to various data sources.
Introducing the Coalesce Catalog x Looker Studio Integration
We’re excited to announce our latest integration with Looker Studio — Google Cloud’s powerful data visualization and reporting tool. With this release, Coalesce Catalog can now ingest and map metadata from Looker Studio, allowing teams to better discover, understand, and govern the dashboards and reports used across the business.
Looker Studio enables teams to build beautiful, interactive dashboards that pull insights from BigQuery, Sheets, and dozens of other sources. But as adoption grows, organizations often lose track of who built what, which reports to trust, and how they connect back to raw data.
Coalesce Catalog changes that by bringing Looker Studio assets into a centralized, searchable, and lineage-aware catalog. The result: greater transparency, improved trust, and faster access to high-value analytics products.
How does it work?
The integration connects directly to Looker Studio to extract metadata about:
- Dashboards, reports, and data sources
- Fields, filters, and visualizations
- Relationships between Looker Studio and upstream sources like BigQuery, Sheets, or other connectors
This metadata is automatically ingested into Coalesce Catalog, where it becomes part of your end-to-end lineage — from storage and pipelines to final BI consumption.
Use Cases
Use-case #1
As a Marketing Analyst, I want to find the latest version of the "Customer Acquisition" dashboard and understand which data sources it’s pulling from — without asking the data team.
Use-case #2
As a Data Engineer, I want to know which Looker Studio reports depend on a BigQuery table I’m about to change — to avoid breaking downstream dashboards.
“Looker Studio is one of the most accessible BI tools on the market, but that ease of use can lead to sprawl. Our integration brings visibility and governance to the chaos — while preserving speed and flexibility.”
Why it matters
With the Coalesce Catalog x Looker Studio integration, you can:
- Eliminate duplicate or outdated dashboards by understanding usage and ownership
- Speed up time-to-insight by guiding users to trusted assets
- Map lineage from Looker Studio back to raw data sources like BigQuery or Sheets
- Empower business users with self-service discovery and documentation
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“[I like] The easy to use interface and the speed of finding the relevant assets that you're looking for in your database. I also really enjoy the score given to each table, [which] lets you prioritize the results of your queries by how often certain data is used.” - Michal P., Head of Data
