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A self-hosted Wordpress setup has served this site well as the hosting platform since it was launched many years ago. "Self-hosted" can however (too often..) be synonymous with "extra work", "maintenance" and "upgrades-that-fail". Time to move on. When you read this the site has been moved to a new home,

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👋 Please meet Ctrl-Q!

…a new open source tool for Qlik Sense admins and developers ❓ Have you ever had to manually create dozens or even hundreds of master items in a Sense app? 😓 Only to later having to delete half of them? 🤯 ❓ Or needed a detailed list of all bookmarks in an app? ❓ Or

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A no-compromise Qlik Sense backup solution, part 2

The previous post focused on how to do a high level backup of all information in a client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (QSEoW) cluster. Let’s dig into details a bit and take a look at how we can do more granular backups of various parts of QSEoW. Specifically,

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A no-compromise Qlik Sense backup solution, part 1

Over the years there has been numerous discussion in the Qlik community about how to best back up a client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows system (QSEoW). The backup and data security policies of different organisations of course differs, but if we focus on the Qlik Sense side of things

Can’t find that Qlik Sense log file from last week?

Butler 7.2 to the rescue! Yep, a new version of your friendly Qlik Sense helper has been released. Buter 7.2 adds a few really nice features: * Standalone, pre-built binaries for Windows, macOS and Linux. No more installing Node.js first – just download Butler and run. It’s now

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How I learned to stop doing manual screen shots and love SenseOps automation

😖 Let’s be honest now. Does your 🧠 really enjoy the manual process of taking screenshots and processing 15 sheets each in 50 different apps? And then keeping those sheet icons updated as the sheets are modified…? Didn’t think so. No-one likes that and the result is usually outdated sheet

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Butler Sheet Icons v2.1 is out

Happy unicorns! Free cake! 🦄 🍰 …and a new version of everyone’s favourite tool for creating #Qlik Sense sheet icons. Following up on last week’s release, version 2.1 is now out. Largely based on feedback from the v2.0, the new version adds: 1️⃣ Exclude some sheets from getting

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CI/CD with Qlik Sense, GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners

In spite of Qlik Sense having great APIs, little has over the years been done around continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) of Sense apps. It’s not that CI/CD is a bad idea – rather the opposite. These days it’s probably the closest thing to a standard way-of-working there

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Qlik Sense sheet icons made easy

If you develop Qlik Sense applications you’ve been there: Manually creating screen shots and then manually uploading them to a content library, and finally manually assigning them as sheet icons. Fun? Not really. But it makes the lives of our end users easier, so we do it. I’ve

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Butler 5.0 is out - Extra mega super deluxe reload alerts for Qlik Sense

…and yes – Butler is still open source. The step from 4.x to 5.0 indicates this is a major release. Very much so in fact. The main focus of the new version is on reload alerts. Rich email alerts were introduced in Butler 4.2, but that was really

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Butler Auth 1.0 now available - strong authentication for Qlik Sense!

After thinking about the concept for a few years and actively working on it for six months, it’s time for the first public release. The Butler family of open source DevOps tools for Qlik Sense Enterprise has a new member: Butler Auth Always open source Butler Auth is of

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Butler 4.2 for Qlik Sense is out!

Butler 4.2 brings alerting superpowers to Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows. This version of Butler might actually bring you the most flexible and powerful alert emails ever for Qlik Sense. Layout and contents of the emails are configurable, script logs included in the email and more. Find all details

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Butler 4.0 for Qlik Sense is out!

Butler adds various features to Qlik Sense Enterprise (the Windows server version), making it easier to develop, maintain and operate Qlik Sense environments and apps. Butler is open source software. Full docs, getting started guide available at butler.ptarmiganlabs.com. The new version has a bunch of new features, including

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Post messages to Microsoft Teams from Qlik Sense

The Corona pandemic made lots of people start working from home and the importance of instant messaging apps has increased quite dramatically since. As a result more people are logged into Slack, Microsoft Teams and similar tools. This is good as it opens up for using these tools as a

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Superpowers to Qlik Sense Enterprise, part 2: Free https certificates from Let's Encrypt

Security is important – period. Usability of web based systems is off course important, but so is security. In the previous (first) article in this series we looked at how the Traefik reverse proxy can be used set up end user friendly URLs for Qlik Sense Enterprise (QSE) environments, while at

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Superpowers to Qlik Sense Enterprise: The Traefik reverse proxy, part 1

Edit: A GitHub repository has been created with the files mentioned in this article: https://github.com/mountaindude/qlik-sense-and-traefik What’s Traefik and how does it relate to Qlik Sense? Traefik is one of today’s most hyped reverse proxies. It’s available in both a commercial and a (very

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Black box monitoring of Butler tools - monitoring the monitor

This is part 3 in a series about how healthchecks.io can be used to solve various kinds of monitoring scenarios for Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (QSEoW) environments. Previous articles: Part 1: Oh data where art thou? Part 2: Black box monitoring of Windows servers Tl;dr Most of

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Butler DevOps tools for Qlik Sense running on Raspberry Pi based Kubernetes cluster

Lots of buzzwords in that title, but yes – things have now come together and the main members of the Butler family of tools for Qlik Sense now run as Docker containers on Arm64 and even Arm7. In practice this means it is possible to run Butler SOS, Butler Cache Warming

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Butler SOS 5.4 is out: good looks and app details

Time for another update of Butler SOS, this time to version 5.4. Github release : https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/butler-sos/releases Docker image   : https://hub.docker.com/r/ptarmiganlabs/butler-sos Documentation: https://butler-sos.ptarmiganlabs.com This release both adds some nice new features as well as enhancing existing ones and

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Black box monitoring of Windows servers

This is part 2 in a series about how healthchecks.io can be used together with Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (QSEoW). Previous articles: Oh data where art thou? Windows Server just works… right? Usually, yes. Still, things do happen and it certainly would be nice to get an push

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Oh data where art thou?

When implementing Qlik Sense solutions for enterprise clients they usually have various requirements regarding alerts for failed reloads, support SLAs etc. Those are all interesting challenges to implement, but the most common request is probably: “The system should alert me if data doesn’t arrive on time” It’s a

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60 second trick saves hours debugging Qlik Sense apps

During the past weeks I have developed what has turned into a fairly complex Qlik Sense solution, where reloading the main application takes on the order of 10 minutes. I know – Qlik apps should be kept small, with intermediate data sets stored as QVDs. But sometimes that’s just not

Hack the Crisis hackathon

Wow, that was a busy weekend. Hack the Crisis was a government sponsored hackathon with 5000+ people taking part – pretty impressive. Friday night our hackathon team kicked off our project. The goal was to develop the core concepts of a service that makes it easier to help those who need

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Animated GIF horror for Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is very much my go-to tool for many data related questions. It’s very powerful to be able to throw together a proof of concept or test a hypothesis in half an hour. Seeing is however believing, so those prototypes does need some polishing before they can be

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Butler SOS 5.0 is out - new features, new doc site

Butler SOS has matured quite a bit during past couple of years, with latest additions being fine-grained monitoring of what users are connected to what servers. Opens up for various interesting use cases, including notification to users before server restarts etc. A brand new doc site (butler-sos.ptarmiganlabs.com) also