--- title: Looker adds agentic workflows for data monitoring and... description: Looker Agentic Workflows, now in preview for Looker v26.08+, automates metric monitoring and root-cause analysis using background AI agents. Users can set up... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/looker-adds-agentic-workflows-for-data-monitoring-and-insights-dgrncjzdn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Looker adds agentic workflows for data monitoring and insights | daily.dev og:description: Looker Agentic Workflows, now in preview for Looker v26.08+, automates metric monitoring and root-cause analysis using background AI agents. Users can set up... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/looker-adds-agentic-workflows-for-data-monitoring-and-insights-dgrncjzdn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dGRNcjZDn.png og:image:alt: Looker adds agentic workflows for data monitoring and insights og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Looker adds agentic workflows for data monitoring and insights **[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Looker Agentic Workflows, now in preview for Looker v26.08+, automates metric monitoring and root-cause analysis using background AI agents. Users can set up continuous monitors via natural language prompts (e.g., 'Monitor return rates weekly'). When a threshold is crossed, the agent runs Key Driver Analysis to identify contributing factors and delivers a diagnostic summary to Slack or email. Results link back to an interactive Conversational Analytics session for follow-up investigation. Administrators retain centralized oversight to manage all workflows across the instance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What does Looker Agentic Workflows do and how do I enable it? Looker Agentic Workflows is a preview feature that turns ad-hoc natural language questions into continuous automated monitoring routines, running Key Driver Analysis when a metric crosses a threshold and delivering root-cause summaries via Slack or email. It requires Looker version 26.08 or later, and administrators enable it via the Gemini in Looker settings page by toggling the Agentic Workflows preview option. _daily.dev surfaces releases like this for teams evaluating agentic BI monitoring tools._ ### What permissions do users need to build monitoring workflows in Looker? Users need chat_with_agent and create_alerts permissions to build agentic workflows in Looker once an administrator has enabled the Agentic Workflows preview toggle in the Gemini in Looker settings page. Business users can then view and edit their own active monitors, while administrators retain oversight to review, adjust, or disable workflows across the whole instance. _Teams rolling out new BI permissions models track setup details like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Looker updates for agentic BI at Next ‘26](https://daily.dev/posts/looker-updates-for-agentic-bi-at-next-26-kn2o3asbm) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Write the future: Create your own agentic workflows](https://daily.dev/posts/write-the-future-create-your-own-agentic-workflows-lh3z3emji) · Dynatrace · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Dashboard agents in Looker](https://daily.dev/posts/dashboard-agents-in-looker-rxfzczvoc) · Google Cloud · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic SOC alert triage: 60% to 92% AI accuracy — Elastic Security Labs](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-soc-alert-triage-60-to-92-ai-accuracy-elastic-security-labs-dxwh13gmo) · Elastic Security Labs · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp), [#bi](https://daily.dev/tags/bi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/looker-adds-agentic-workflows-for-data-monitoring-and-insights-dgrncjzdn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Looker adds agentic workflows for data monitoring and insights","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/looker-adds-agentic-workflows-for-data-monitoring-and-insights-dgrncjzdn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/looker-adds-agentic-workflows-for-data-monitoring-and-insights-dgrncjzdn"},"datePublished":"2026-07-29T16:12:41.593Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:14:58.882Z","description":"Looker Agentic Workflows, now in preview for Looker v26.08+, automates metric monitoring and root-cause analysis using background AI agents. 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