This is an official Google Partner connector, meaning that it can be found in the main Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio) connectors list. However, if you are planning to use any of our free templates, it is recommended that you use the links directly from this page or elsewhere on our website (as these are pre-configured with appropriate settings).
By default, the connector comes with a report template that is suitable for “Crawl” data. Get more Looker Studio templates in our dedicated template guide.
Important: All of our example templates require the “Allow ‘Crawl Selection’ to be modified in reports” checkbox to be selected. Omitting this will prevent the template from working correctly.
Getting Started
Open the connector using the links above, or find it by searching “Lumar” inside Looker Studio. If you don’t see your accounts inside the connector, please contact your CSM or support. Looker Studio is only enabled for Enterprise accounts.
Authenticate
When you first use the connector with a Google account, you’ll need to go through two authentication phases.
The first authorization is to allow our connector to utilize your Google account. This gives permission for our connector to contact our API to retrieve the data required for dashboards.
The second authentication step asks for your Lumar API key. You can generate a new API key in your Lumar account. When entering this into the connector, the format must be id:key - for instance, if your Lumar API ID is 2438 and the API Key is “abcdef123”, then you need to enter 2438:abcdef123. If you are unable to proceed, then the most likely reason is that this API key is entered incorrectly.
Note that in order to protect the security of your account and your data, API keys are not able to be revealed or recovered once they are generated and initially supplied upon generation. However, you are able to generate infinite API keys in the event that a previous one is lost or unrecoverable, up to a maximum of 2 active API keys at a time per account.
Each Google account can only be associated with one Lumar API key.
Setting up your first datasource
Account
When you first load the connector, an account will need to be selected. Many users will only have access to one account. If you do not see any accounts, or if the account names are not descriptive enough, please contact your CSM.
Projects
The connector can return data for a single project, or multiple projects in one dashboard. When getting started, it is easy to select just one project. We recommend selecting “Allow Projects to be modified in reports.” as this means that you’ll be able to add or change projects for a single visualization within the dashboard.
Data Type
There are three different ways to use the connector:
- Crawl Data gives you access to all reports in a crawl, their trends over time, and the number of URL/Links which appeared in each report. This mode is best for anyone who is just starting out with the connector, or who wants to get a specific data point or trend line. This mode is compatible with Lumar's Segmentation feature.
- Issues will return a list of issues that we found in a crawl. You are unable to easily choose the specific reports that you want to see, but this data is great for when you just want to list (for instance) the top 5 problems in a crawl, without knowing what those problems are in advance. This mode is compatible with Lumar's Segmentation feature.
- Tasks will return all of the tasks that exist in your projects. This is perfect for zoning in on specific issues, creating custom charts (as tasks can be granularly filtered to areas of your website), and comparing the same issue across multiple websites.