You can create a Looker report, connect to data sources to visualize your data, and then save the report in Looker's content management system.
Although Looker reports are similar to Looker Studio reports, some features and resources may not be available or may behave differently.
The following table indicates the features and functionality that are supported in Looker reports. This table lists only those features that are related to creating, viewing, editing, and sharing Looker reports.
| Connect to data sources | Notes |
|---|---|
| Connect to Google Sheets | This data source is pre-set with Owner's Credentials. |
| Connect to Microsoft Excel | |
| Connect to Looker | These data sources have the same limitations as are described in the Looker connector documentation. |
| Connect to BigQuery | This data source is pre-set with Owner's Credentials. |
| Connect to Amazon Redshift | |
| Connect to MySQL | |
| Connect to PostgreSQL | |
| Connect to File Upload | |
| Create an embedded data source | |
| Add multiple data sources to a single report | |
| Blend up to five data sources | |
| Embed reports | This feature requires Looker 25.10 or later. |
| Perform actions within a report | Notes |
| View the version history of a report | |
| Download a report as a PDF file | |
| Export data from a report chart to a CSV file, a Microsoft Excel file, or Google Sheets | |
| Perform actions on a report | Notes |
| Save a report to your personal folder, to another user's personal folder, or to the Shared folder | |
| View and open favorite reports from the Looker instance Home page, Favorites page, or Recently Viewed page | |
| Add or remove a report from the list of favorites | |
| Search for a report by report name | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| View a deleted report in the Trash | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| Restore a deleted report from the Trash | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| Perform actions on a folder that contains a report | Notes |
| Copy, move, or delete a report from a folder | |
| Add or remove users and groups from a shared folder that contains a report | |
| Perform admin tasks that are related to reports | Notes |
| Manage the connectors that are allowed on a report | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| Monitor user actions in reports alongside actions in Looker with System Activity | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| View report activity in a Looker instance's System Activity | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| Localization of certain user-interface (UI) text into supported languages | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. It not available for the fr_FR locale. |
| Set the default locale for a Looker instance | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| Set the default number format for a Looker instance | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |
| Specify the locale for a user or a group | This feature requires Looker 25.4 or later. |