Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets

GAOct 5, 20265 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 10, 2026

Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets. You can package, govern, and share Looker (Google Cloud core) dashboards, dashboard elements, Looks, Explores, and LookML projects, models, and views in a data product using Google Group mirroring and IAM access controls. This feature is generally available .

Topics: Governance, Security, Data integration, BI, Observability

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GASep 24unverified

Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following...

Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following updates: You can import metadata from dbt Cloud job runs using the dbt Cloud interface, the dbt platform CLI, or the dbt Administrative API and webhooks.

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UpdateSep 24unverified

Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group

Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group. The default role, once configured, is automatically granted on all packaged and supported assets in the data product. Data product owners can override the default role for individual assets.

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PreviewSep 14

Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog

Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview .

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PreviewSep 7

Knowledge Catalog data domains enter preview

Data domains logically organize resources across an enterprise so teams can discover and curate data at scale.

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PreviewAug 26

Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview

Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview . You can use the gcloud alpha dataplex dbt metadata-jobs command to extract and import technical, semantic (MetricFlow), operational, data quality, and lineage metadata from dbt Core artifacts into Knowledge Catalog.

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PreviewJul 24

Knowledge Catalog governance workflows for data product access in preview

Governance workflows add automated controls for data product access management through a request-review mechanism.

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GAJul 17

Data lineage ingestion control is GA for BigQuery, Spark and Airflow

Data lineage can now be controlled at the organization, folder or project level for BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark and Managed Service for Apache Airflow.

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PreviewJul 9

Knowledge Catalog adds SQL Server and PostgreSQL connectors in preview

New connectors extract technical, operational and business metadata from SQL Server and PostgreSQL and import it into Knowledge Catalog entry groups on a schedule.

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