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Butler 13.0: Unifying Qlik Sense reload monitoring across cloud and on-premise

Butler 13.0 provides consistent, rich reload alerts for both client-managed and cloud versions of Qlik Sense in one powerful tool. Simplify your Qlik Sense monitoring and never miss a beat, whether you're in the cloud or on-premise.

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Butler SOS 10.2 released

Butler SOS 10.2 focus on making it easier to monitor large Qlik Sense environments. New major features include (very!) flexible categorisation and visualisation of Qlik Sense log events, as well as visualisation of Butler SOS' config file.

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Built-in cache warming in Qlik Sense - first impressions

Client-managed Qlik Sense 2024-May adds built-in cache warming. This post takes a quick first look at this feature, comparing it to the Butler CW tool that does the same thing, but as a standalone tool.

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Automate Qlik Sense logins from PowerShell

Tech deep-dive where we look at how users can be automatically logged into Qlik Sense to generate realistic, artificial load on the system. PowerShell and Selenium is used to automate Chrome.

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Automatically recover unused Qlik Sense licenses

The latest version of Butler adds monitoring of Qlik Sense licenses and automatic release of unused licenses. This can both save money and reduce the risk of users not getting access to your Sense environment.

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Manage Qlik Sense user sessions in style

Managing user sessions in client-managed Qlik Sense can be tricky or even outright difficult in large Sense environments. Ctrl-Q includes powerful tools that makes this work easier!

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Automate Safari browser using macOS Script Editor

Using AppleScript the Safari browser can be remote controlled, automatically logging several users into Qlik Sense.

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How to start on-premise Qlik Sense tasks from anywhere

Start Qlik Sense reload tasks from anywhere, using a single http call. Can be very useful when source systems need to trigger data reloads in Sense. The solution is low cost and can be made as secure as needed using Azure Event Grid and Function Apps.

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Visualise Qlik Sense reload tasks using Ctrl-Q

Ctrl-Q lets you visualise Qlik Sense task dependencies as trees or - as of Ctrl-Q 3.15 - network graphs! This gives an unprecedented overview of complex task chains in any Qlik Sense Enterprise environment.

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SenseOps 2023-Q4 summary

Summary of what's new in the various Butler tools. Better real-time monitoring of Qlik Sense via Butler SOS, Azure support for the original Butler and bulk task import in Ctrl-Q.

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Ctrl-Q 3.14: Bulk task export/import for Qlik Sense

Ctrl-Q version 3.14 improve stability for task-related commands. Bulk operations on reload and external program tasks are now both more flexible and stable.

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Low-code find-replace in Qlik Sense app load scripts

Manually update app load scripts can be extremely time consuming. Ctrl-Q NR can assist in that use-case by both identifying apps that should be updated, doing a find-replace operation of all apps' load scripts, and finally reloading the apps.

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How to email all Qlik Sense Cloud users

Ctrl-Q NR and Node-RED can be used to get metadata for users in a Qlik Sense Cloud tenant. This can be combined with the email node in Node-RED to create a basic but quite flexible email service that can send emails to all users with email addresses in the tenant.

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Monitoring Qlik Sense Cloud app reloads using Node-RED

Ctrl-Q NR has a node that mirrors the reload state of all apps in a Qlik Sense Cloud tenant. Using this node it is possible to build logic that triggers when (for example) app reloads change from "Running" to "Failed".

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Qlik Sense license info, low-code style

Ctrl-Q NR includes license nodes for both client-managed and cloud versions of Qlik Sense. These nodes make it easy to create license monitoring solutions that will for example alert fixed number of days before licenses expire.

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Monitor Sense services using Ctrl-Q NR

Ctrl-Q NR can get info about all client-managed Qlik Sense services. Using Node-RED it's then easy to detect services that are not running and take necessary action (alert etc).

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Tagging rarely reloaded Qlik Sense apps

Using Ctrl-Q NR it is possible to first identify which apps in a client-managed Qlik Sense environment that have not reloaded for a long time, then tag those apps with a suitable tag. The apps can then be easily identified in the QMC.

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Ctrl-Q NR: Qlik Sense nodes for Node-RED

Ctrl-Q NR lets you interact with both Qlik Sense Cloud and client-managed Qlik Sense from within Node-RED. There are nodes for starting app reloads, updating app metadata, monitoring the status of all reloads and more.

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Ctrl-Q NR: Low-code tools for Qlik Sense

Ctrl-Q NR is a set of Node-RED nodes that make it easy to use both Qlik Sense Cloud and client-managed Qlik Sense from within the low-code Node-RED platform.

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Butler Sheet Icons 3.1.0

Butler Sheet Icons 3.1.0 adds support for latest Qlik Sense versions, plus a new "browser" command that controls which browser is used to take screenshots of Qlik Sense sheets.

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🎉 Butler 9.0 - Monitoring Windows services

With Butler 9.0 it's easy to monitor Windows services, which combined with the already existing reload task monitoring makes Butler a comprehensive solution for high-availability Qlik Sense solutions.

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qs-jwt: JWT auth for Qlik Sense

JWTs - JSON Web Tokens is a well-established way to authenticate with APIs. The open source tool qs-jwt greatly simplifies the creation of JWTs for both Qlik Cloud and client-managed Qlik Sense.

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The lazy Qlik developer #4: How many users right now?

PowerShell script that will show how many - and what - users are connected to a client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise server.

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Ctrl-Q 3.9 brings colors to Qlik Sense master items

In previous versions Ctrl-Q could import master dimensions and measures from definitions in an Excel file into client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise. Ctrl-Q 3.9 adds full color support to those imports.

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Running Butler tools as Windows services

Several of the Butler family of open source tools for Qlik Sense Enterprise are intended to run 24/7. This article looks at how to achieve enterprise grade deployment of Butler & friends using standard Windows services.