Connect Airflow and
Looker with AI

Redbird AI automates the sync between your data orchestration layer and analytics platform. Stop manually checking pipeline statuses before refreshing dashboards, building custom scripts to expose DAG metadata to business users, or coordinating pipeline schedules with BI refresh timing.

No code required
Live in minutes
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What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Trigger Looker dashboard refreshes when upstream Airflow DAGs complete successfully

Automatically refresh specific Looker explores and dashboards the moment your Airflow pipeline finishes loading fresh data. Ensure stakeholders always see up-to-date analytics without manual intervention or fixed schedules that waste compute.

Alert BI teams in Looker when critical data pipeline failures occur

Surface Airflow task failures and data quality issues directly in Looker as contextual alerts on affected dashboards. Business users see why metrics are stale and estimated resolution times without leaving their analytics workspace.

Sync Airflow DAG metadata to Looker for end-to-end data lineage visibility

Push pipeline run history, task durations, and data freshness timestamps from Airflow into Looker tables. Enable business users to self-serve data quality checks and understand exactly when their reports were last updated.

Automatically retry Airflow tasks when Looker query timeouts indicate stale data

Monitor Looker for specific query patterns or timeout errors that suggest missing or incomplete upstream data. Trigger targeted Airflow DAG reruns to backfill gaps without full pipeline restarts.

Pause Looker scheduled reports when dependent Airflow pipelines are running late

Detect when critical ETL jobs miss their SLA windows and automatically delay Looker report delivery until fresh data arrives. Prevent executives from receiving dashboards with outdated or incomplete metrics.

Generate pipeline performance reports by combining Airflow logs with Looker usage analytics

Cross-reference which Looker dashboards are most frequently accessed with their upstream pipeline costs and runtime. Identify optimization opportunities by understanding which data transformations actually drive business value.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Airflow and Looker with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both Airflow's orchestration layer—DAGs, tasks, dependencies, and execution states—and Looker's semantic layer, including LookML models, explores, and dashboard refresh patterns.

AI that maps pipeline state to analytics availability

Redbird automatically connects the dots between your Airflow task execution graph and the Looker explores that depend on that data. Our AI interprets DAG success callbacks, parses task logs for row counts and quality checks, then intelligently determines which Looker content needs refreshing. We understand the difference between a full pipeline rebuild versus an incremental update, and route the appropriate refresh commands to specific explores, dashboards, or embedded analytics endpoints without you mapping every dependency manually.

DAG run state detection
LookML model inference
Smart refresh routing
Dependency graph mapping
10×

faster pipeline-to-BI orchestration than building custom Airflow operators

No custom Python hooks, API polling logic, or brittle webhook configurations to maintain

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Airflow and Looker simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Airflow or Looker.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Airflow into Looker, or from Looker back into Airflow. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from any event in your orchestration layer or analytics platform, then execute actions across both systems.

Airflow
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

DAG run completes

Fires when a specific Airflow DAG finishes with success, failure, or any configured state.

Trigger

Task fails with retry exceeded

Triggers when an individual task exhausts all retry attempts and enters a failed state.

Trigger

Data quality check threshold breached

Activates when custom sensor tasks detect row count anomalies or validation rule violations.

Action

Trigger DAG run

Programmatically start a specific DAG with optional runtime configuration parameters.

Action

Clear task instance state

Reset failed or skipped tasks to enable partial pipeline reruns without full DAG restarts.

Action

Update variable or connection

Modify Airflow variables or connection parameters dynamically based on external conditions.

Looker
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Scheduled look delivery fails

Fires when a Looker scheduled report or alert fails to generate or send successfully.

Trigger

Dashboard query exceeds timeout threshold

Triggers when specific explores or dashboards consistently hit query time limits indicating performance issues.

Trigger

New LookML model deployed

Activates when changes to the semantic layer are pushed to production, potentially requiring pipeline adjustments.

Action

Refresh PDT or materialization

Trigger rebuilds of specific persistent derived tables after upstream data updates complete.

Action

Update dashboard description with freshness metadata

Programmatically append data lineage details or last-updated timestamps to dashboard documentation.

Action

Send custom data alert

Create targeted Looker alerts with pipeline context when data anomalies or SLA breaches occur.

Airflow
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Looker

Ready to connect your stack?

Start automating between Airflow and Looker in minutes. Redbird handles the orchestration-to-analytics handoff so your data team can focus on building pipelines, not babysitting integrations.

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