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Connect Google Sheets to Glean

Give Glean governed access to Google Sheets’s 21 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

Set up

Add Google Sheets to Glean in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Glean then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Google Sheets in Runlayer

    Add Google Sheets from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect Glean to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Glean by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Glean reaches Google Sheets’s 21 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Glean setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Google Sheets

    Sign in the way Google Sheets requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Google Sheets from Glean

    Google Sheets’s approved tools appear in Glean. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

21 Google Sheets tools in Glean

Runlayer policy decides which of these Glean users can call. 4 read data only and 4 can change or delete data.

  • Add sheet

    Add a new sheet (tab) to an existing spreadsheet.

  • Append

    Append data to a spreadsheet.

  • Autofill

    Extend a formula or detected series from a source range into a larger destination range (like dragging the fill handle).

  • Clear

    Clear the values in a range while leaving the rows, columns, and formatting in place.

  • Clear filter

    Remove a sheet's filter, restoring any rows it was hiding.

  • Create

    Create a new spreadsheet.

  • Create filter

    Turn on filtering over a range of a sheet (the funnel button in the Sheets UI), so rows can be sorted and filtered by column.

  • Delete rows

    Delete rows from a sheet, shifting the rows below them up.

See all 21 Google Sheets tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Glean

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Glean exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Google Sheets call from Glean passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Glean as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • OTLP telemetry (available)

    Glean can send supported OpenTelemetry events to Runlayer for observe-only session visibility.

  • Native enforcement adapter (not available)

    Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Glean yet, so control happens at the gateway.

In Glean

  • Runlayer sees Glean activity through OpenTelemetry traces for monitoring only; enforcement happens at the gateway.

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