188 posts since 2009.
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.
Butler SOS 4.0 is out, adding features that make it easier than ever to monitor large Qlik Sense environments. We’ll return to this topic of course, but let’s first take a few steps back. There are many variants of that quote: “If you can’t measure it,
Heading for the mountains here, but a quick update first. Everyone’s favourite app wizard for Qlik Sense (ok… my favourite wiz at least..) has had a major face lift – yay! The basics are the same, i.e. one-click creation of Qlik Sense apps, using regular Sense apps as
For years I have thought about ways to get data lineage info for all apps in a Qlik Sense Enterprise environment. It would be super useful to know exactly what apps use a particular data source, as well as vice versa (what data sources are used by a specific app)
The latest version fo Butler SOS is out, taking the version number to 3.0. A lot of the code has been fine tuned to better meet the needs of enterprise grade Qlik Sense deployments. Docker (or some compatible container platform) is now the preferred and recommended way of running
Docker is great. Docker is one of those tools that have the potential to fundamentally transform how you develop and run software – once you have tried Docker it is hard to imagine going back to something else. In previous posts we have seen how Butler, Butler SOS and Butler CW
ollowing up on previous posts (here and here) about the Butler family of tools being Dockerized, here is another one on the same topic: Butler SOS can now be run in a Docker container. This is good news as it makes it a lot easier to set up real-time
Following up on the previous post about pulling sensor data from sensors in a Verisure alarm system, here is a slightly more hardware focused post. One use case that the new Verisure alarm system does not handle nicely is machine-to-machine notification when the alarm is disarmed (turned off)
I recently upgraded our house alarm system to the latest model from Verisure. Pretty nice actually, the new system comes with a good mobile app, remote querying of both alarm status and status of the various sensors (smoke, movement etc) that are included in the system. Oh, the new system
More Docker in the Butler family! Today version 2.0 of Butler CW was released, including a Docker image and configuration files needed to run Butler CW as a Docker container. Feature wise the stand-alone Node.js app and the new container-based solution are identical, it’s just
Before the summer the Butler tool turned two years old – time flies! Over those years I have installed, tweaked and upgraded a fair number of Butler instances… Not a problem per se, but maintaining a production grade Butler instance does assume a certain level of experience around Node.js, Linux,
I worked out the issue preventing me to add additional nodes to a Qlik Sense Enterprise system whose central node had been updated to June 2018. The June 2018 version of Qlik Sense Enterprise relies on a database called “SenseServices” to be available in the Postgres db (as in earlier