Google Drive

Search, ground, and act on your Google Drive content in Glean

Connect Google Drive and Glean gets read and write tools right away, so it can search, read, and create files for each user. Turn on data crawling and indexing for permission-aware search across your organization's Drive content.

File storageRead and write toolsGoogle Drive MCP (central or custom app)Permission-aware

Set up Google DriveGoogle Drive overview

At a glance

Authentication

Google Drive MCP over OAuth (central or custom app), plus domain-wide delegation for indexing

Tools

Read and write tools, each run as the asking user

What it indexes

Docs, sheets, slides, PDFs, folders, and other Drive files

Permissions

Permission-aware on both paths: Drive ACLs enforced at query time

Sync

Full, incremental, and activity-based crawls

Choose your path

Which path is yours depends on your Glean deployment, not on when you personally connect Google Drive.

Onboarding

New setup

You're on a new Glean deployment, created on or after August 14th, 2026. Connect Google Drive once and Glean gets read and write tools right away. To add permission-aware search, set up data indexing.

Previous setup

You're on an existing Glean deployment. Even if you're connecting Google Drive for the first time, keep the setup you have to manage domains, delegation, restrictions, labels, and the crawl. Tools can be added separately from the Tools tab.

Not sure which is yours? Choose your Google Drive setup.

Security

Permissions

Overview of the permissions required for the Google Drive connector.

Support

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting the Google Drive connector.

Error codes

Error codes for the Google Drive connector.