[[["易于理解","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["解决了我的问题","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["其他","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["很难理解","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["信息或示例代码不正确","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["没有我需要的信息/示例","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["翻译问题","translationIssue","thumb-down"],["其他","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["最后更新时间 (UTC):2025-09-04。"],[],[],null,["# Set up and administer Looker\n\nLooker customers can [opt to have Looker host their instance or to self-host an on-premises Looker deployment](/looker/docs/choosing-hosting-option). Throughout our documentation, we refer to instances that are hosted by Looker as \"Looker-hosted\" and to instances that are hosted on-premises as \"customer-hosted\" or \"self-hosted.\"\n\nThis page outlines the documentation on setting up and administering the Looker application.\n\nLooker-hosted instances\n-----------------------\n\nThe following pages describe how to install and configure Looker-hosted instances:\n\n- [Looker-hosted installation steps](/looker/docs/looker-hosted-installation-steps): View a list of Looker-hosted installation steps and resources for each step.\n\nCustomer-hosted instances\n-------------------------\n\nThe following pages describe how to install, configure, and maintain customer-hosted instances:\n\n- [Customer-hosted installation steps](/looker/docs/customer-hosted-installation-steps): View a list of customer-hosted installation steps and resources for each step.\n- [Managing a customer-hosted deployment](/looker/docs/managing-customer-hosted-deployment): View a list of resources about managing your own Looker instance.\n- [Customer-hosted component infrastructure walkthroughs](/looker/docs/best-practices/customer-hosted-component-walkthroughs): Explore common practices for specific components of customer-hosted Looker architecture and how to configure them within a deployment.\n- [Customer-hosted infrastructure architecture patterns](/looker/docs/best-practices/customer-hosted-patterns-and-practices): Explore the most common architecture patterns for a customer-hosted deployment and describes the best practices for implementing them.\n\nSetting up a database connection\n--------------------------------\n\nThe following pages help you understand how to connect to a database:\n\n- [Enabling secure database access](/looker/docs/enabling-secure-db-access): Take the first step in connecting a database: Choose an option to secure data between Looker and your database.\n- [Database configuration instructions](/looker/docs/dialects): View links for database-specific instructions for configuring your database to work with Looker.\n- [Connecting Looker to your database](/looker/docs/connecting-to-your-db): Learn how to connect your database and Looker.\n- [Testing database connectivity](/looker/docs/testing-db-connectivity): Test and troubleshoot the connection to your database.\n\nAdministrative tutorials\n------------------------\n\nThe following pages describe a variety of topics relating to the administration of a Looker instance:\n\n- [Supported browsers](/looker/docs/supported-browsers): View a list of the browsers that Looker supports.\n- [Configuring sign-in options for users](/looker/docs/getting-started-with-users): Configure sign-in options for your users.\n- [Access control and permission management](/looker/docs/access-control-and-permission-management): Learn how to configure roles, permission sets, and model sets to manage user and group access to your data and to Looker features.\n- [Designing and configuring a system of access levels](/looker/docs/access-levels): Learn about different ways you can configure Looker to manage user and group access to saved Looks and dashboards.\n- [Clustering Looker](/looker/docs/clustering-looker): Learn how to create a clustered Looker configuration.\n- [Creating connections](/looker/docs/creating-connections): Get an overview of the process to connect Looker to your database.\n- [Monitoring Looker usage with System Activity Explores](/looker/docs/usage-reports-with-system-activity-explores): Learn how to use Looker's System Activity Explores to view information and history about your Looker instance.\n- [Making announcements to your users](/looker/docs/making-announcements-to-your-users): Learn how to configure Looker's sidebar to create personalized messages to your users on your homepage.\n- [Managing business user features](/looker/docs/managing-business-user-features): Learn about administrative settings that affect options for viewing, retrieving, and sharing data.\n- [Deleting personal user information](/looker/docs/deleting-personal-user-information): Learn how to remove all of a disabled or deleted user's personal information from their Looker account.\n- [Using time zone settings](/looker/docs/using-time-zone-settings): Learn about Looker's various time zone settings and how they interact to convert time-based data.\n- [Supported user-interface languages](/looker/docs/supported-user-interface-languages): Learn about managing user-interface localization, letting you display data and Looker menus in multiple international languages.\n- [Localizing number formatting](/looker/docs/localizing-number-formatting): Learn about managing localized number formatting in Looker.\n\nAdministrative panels\n---------------------\n\nThe following pages describe Looker's administration functions:\n\n- [General pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-general-pages): View a list of pages about setting system-wide options, enabling or disabling beta and legacy features, creating a custom help page for your users, setting a default homepage for your instance or for a user or group, and customizing the welcome emails new users receive.\n- [System Activity pages](/looker/docs/system-activity-pages): View information about the System Activity dashboards, which show user activity, content activity, and performance data for your Looker instance.\n- [Users pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-users-pages): View a list of pages about configuring users, groups, roles, and user attributes; managing user and group access to saved content; and viewing and resetting locked user accounts.\n- [Database pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-database-pages): View a list of pages about configured database connections, database query history, persistent derived tables, and datagroups.\n- [Alerts \\& Schedules pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-alerts-and-schedules-pages): View a list of pages about managing user alerts and schedules, viewing alert and schedule histories, specifying an emailed data policy, and monitoring data sent to external email addresses.\n- [Platform pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-platform-pages): View a list of pages about setting system-wide options for integrated services, Looker's API, embedded content, email deliveries, and custom visualization types.\n- [Authentication pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-authentication-pages): View a list of pages about configuring authentication methods --- including passwords, two-factor authentication, Google OAuth, LDAP, SAML, and OpenID Connect --- and configuring options for user to stay logged in to Looker.\n- [Server pages](/looker/docs/admin-panel-server-pages): View a list of pages about configuring Looker backups, configuring a list of IP addresses that can access your instance, viewing the internal Looker log, and viewing Looker usage information.\n\nSecurity\n--------\n\nThe following page helps you understand Looker's security practices:\n\n- [Our shared security partnership](/looker/product/security): View Looker's security posture and best practices."]]