Before running the Looker crawler, you can run preflight checks to perform the necessary technical validations. The following preflight checks will be completed:
Projects view capability
First, the list of projects in the Include Projects and Exclude Projects fields is determined. Next, the Query Projects REST API is used to fetch the actual list of projects for which the user has view capability.
✅ Check successful if all the projects from the first list are in the second one.
❌ Check failed for $missingProject
Folders view capability
First, the list of folders in the Include Folders and Exclude Folders fields is determined. Next, the Query Projects REST API is used to fetch the actual list of folders for which the user has view capability.
✅ Check successful if all the folders from the first list are in the second one.
❌ Check failed for $missingFolder
Git SSH key check
✅ Check successful if a valid SSH key is provided when field level lineage is enabled.
❌ Field level lineage needs to clone your git repositories. Please provide your git ssh key or disable field level lineage or Please provide your private ssh key properly. Remember to include '-----BEGIN' and '-----END' blocks also. Please remember to specify the password for private key if encrypted
S3
✅ Check successful if the bucket, region, and prefix combination is valid and the S3 credential passed is accessible.
❌Check failed with error code <AWS error code> - <AWS
SDK ERR message>
For example: Miner S3 credentials: failed with error code: NoSuchBucket