Looker Updates: CI Email Alerts, Expression Assistant, and UI Enhancements

Looker Continuous Integration (CI) now supports email alerts. When you create or edit a CI suite, you can enable the Enable email alerts toggle to specify email recipients and select which run statuses will trigger emails ( Failed , Error , Passed , or Cancelled ). For more information, see Set up alerting .

The custom calendar feature is now generally available.

The Expression Assistant is now generally available.

Localization is now supported for the dimension_group parameter. You can localize the timeframes, intervals, or custom timeframes generated by a dimension group by providing translations in your locale strings files. For more details, see Localizing dimension groups .

The LookML Projects page has been updated with a more performant tabbed layout, which features three tabs: Models and Projects , Pending Projects , and Marketplace Projects .

Looker admins now have the ability to configure a Looker instance to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) whenever a user tries to log in by using an email and a password . This feature is enabled by default.

The Enhanced search feature is now generally available.

Now available in preview, enhanced observability metrics — including engagement and projected token usage data — are available for Conversational Analytics on the Conversational Analytics System Activity dashboard . To enable this feature, a Looker admin must turn on the Conversational Analytics Agent Token usage setting on the General page in the Preview section of the Admin panel.

Now available in preview, the Admin Assistant helps you use natural language to manage Looker roles.

Now available in preview, the new Modern User Interface feature enables modernized layouts and design alongside new configuration settings for visualizations and dashboards. When this preview feature is enabled, users can apply a Modern visualization theme that features updated typography and modern, accessible color palettes for improved data legibility. Additionally, a new Modern dashboard style provides a high-density, streamlined design that optimizes data viewing and aligns with Google's latest design standards.

The Insight Assistant now displays the process the assistant uses to generate the response, showing key details in your data that it used to generate the response, and listing the fields from your Explore that it used.

When you chat in Gemini Enterprise with data agents that you create in Looker , agent responses now include charts and visualizations.

From August 3 through August 5, 2026, the following features will be automatically enabled for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances running Looker 26.12.

Complimentary Data Studio Pro licenses aren't available for Looker (Google Cloud core) instances that are created after August 1, 2026.