Hello,
We have developed an agent (With the ADK) that is able to trigger a conversation with a Looker agent. Is there a way to visualize the conversation?
Hi there. Where is the agent currently running?
Hi, thanks for your answer.
I think the agent is running in Cloud Run (I need to check with my engineer). I imagine we could retrieve that with a set of API calls. I would have preferred to access it from the Looker UI.
This is our setup:
Agent (ADK) → uses tools (Looker agent via API)
So I just want to clarify. Are you trying to get visualizations in the conversation, or are you trying to see the conversation in the Looker UI?
What I mean is I need to audit the conversation? I need to display it so I can understand what went well what went wrong.
Ah, I understand. For observability, at this time, you cannot see the actual conversation of another user, however, if you have administrative privileges you can view the conversational analytics agent activity from system activity.
First, I went into the “top agents” explore, filtered for the agent I wanted (by name) and the specific conversation ID I wanted to see, and then looked for the query slug. Then you can dig into the queries that were submitted via conversational analytics to see what data/results it is pulling. That is how I’ve audited conversations for now, by reviewing the change in SQL queries and specificity, the changes I am seeing across queries in one conversation.
That’s an interesting use case. As far as I know, there isn’t currently a built-in interface that lets you view or replay conversations initiated with a Looker agent through the ADK, at least not in the way you can with some other conversational AI platforms.
If you need conversation history or analytics, one practical approach is to log the prompts, responses, timestamps, and session IDs in your own application before and after each request. That gives you full visibility for debugging and auditing.
I’d also be interested to know whether Google has plans to expose conversation history or telemetry through the API, as that would be useful for monitoring and evaluating agent interactions at scale.
I have used the API to export the conversation from an ID. The only issue is that you need to sudo as the user; otherwise, it is not visible. I have used a script to make it more “human-readable”.
Happy to share more details if needed.
Are you on Looker SaaS or Looker Core as we can’t do sudo in Looker Core