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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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