Connect Kafka and
Looker with AI

Redbird AI automatically syncs your Kafka event streams into Looker dashboards and reports. Stop writing custom ETL scripts to land streaming data into your warehouse, or waiting on engineering to expose real-time metrics to business teams.

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.

Stream Kafka events into Looker dashboards for real-time monitoring

Automatically route high-volume event streams from Kafka topics into your data warehouse and refresh Looker explores and dashboards. Business teams see live metrics without engineering building custom pipelines for every new event type.

Alert data teams when Looker query patterns reveal data quality issues

Monitor Looker query logs and user activity to detect anomalous patterns, null spikes, or metric inconsistencies. Automatically publish alerts to Kafka topics that feed operational monitoring systems and trigger incident response workflows.

Enrich Kafka clickstream data with business context before warehouse landing

Intercept raw clickstream and user behavior events from Kafka, enrich with LookML dimension mappings and business logic, then write enhanced events back for consistent analytics. Ensure streaming data matches your governed metric definitions from day one.

Automate Looker report generation when Kafka detects business-critical events

Trigger scheduled or ad-hoc Looker reports when specific event patterns appear in Kafka streams—like transaction thresholds, system errors, or customer milestones. Deliver context-rich analytics to stakeholders the moment something important happens.

Capture Looker dashboard interactions as Kafka events for product analytics

Stream user interactions with embedded Looker dashboards—drill-downs, filter changes, export actions—into Kafka for real-time product analytics. Understand how customers use your analytics features without custom instrumentation.

Archive high-velocity Kafka log data and auto-generate Looker explores

Batch Kafka log and sensor data into optimized warehouse tables on schedule, then automatically update or create LookML explores with appropriate dimensions and measures. Turn operational data streams into queryable analytics assets without manual modeling.

Live in four steps

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

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Kafka 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 AI understands Kafka's event schemas, topic partitioning, and consumer groups alongside Looker's LookML semantic layer, explores, and dashboard structure.

AI that speaks both streaming events and semantic models

Redbird automatically maps Kafka event schemas—JSON, Avro, Protobuf—to LookML dimensions and measures, suggesting appropriate aggregations and join logic. It detects schema evolution in your streams and proposes LookML updates to match. When streaming data lands in your warehouse, Redbird ensures it aligns with your governed metric definitions, maintaining consistency between real-time pipelines and self-serve analytics.

Kafka topic & schema detection
LookML dimension mapping
Stream-to-warehouse orchestration
Metric consistency validation
10×

faster than building custom streaming ETL and updating LookML models manually

No Kafka Connect configuration, custom consumer code, or manual explore creation required

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Kafka 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 Kafka 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 Kafka into Looker, or from Looker back into Kafka. 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 from any event in your Kafka streams or any activity in Looker—Redbird handles the orchestration across both systems.

Kafka
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New message in topic

Trigger when messages arrive in specified Kafka topics, with filtering by partition, key pattern, or message content.

Trigger

Consumer lag threshold exceeded

Detect when consumer group lag crosses defined thresholds, indicating processing delays or capacity issues.

Trigger

Schema registry update

Trigger when new schema versions are registered or existing schemas evolve in your schema registry.

Action

Publish message to topic

Write structured messages to Kafka topics with specified keys, headers, and partition routing.

Action

Batch write events to warehouse

Collect and batch Kafka messages, then write to data warehouse tables optimized for Looker querying.

Action

Update topic configuration

Modify topic retention, partition count, or configuration settings based on usage patterns or data volume.

Looker
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Dashboard viewed or scheduled

Trigger when specific Looker dashboards are accessed, scheduled, or delivered to users or groups.

Trigger

Query execution completed

Detect when Looker queries finish running, including execution time, row counts, and query patterns.

Trigger

Alert condition met

Trigger when Looker alert thresholds are crossed based on scheduled query results or metric anomalies.

Action

Generate and deliver report

Execute Looker looks or dashboard queries and deliver results via email, Slack, or other channels.

Action

Update LookML model

Programmatically modify explores, dimensions, or measures in LookML to reflect new data sources or business logic.

Action

Refresh materialized view

Trigger rebuild of Looker PDTs or materialized views when upstream Kafka data patterns change.

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Ready to connect your stack?

Sync Kafka event streams with Looker analytics in minutes. Redbird AI handles the schema mapping, data orchestration, and warehouse optimization so your team can focus on insights, not infrastructure.

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