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A collection of 15 posts

Butler SOS 10.2 released

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.

SenseOps 2023-Q4 summary

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.

Running Butler tools as Windows services

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.

The lazy Qlik developer #2: Setting up Butler SOS

The lazy Qlik developer #2: Setting up Butler SOS

Butler SOS provides real-time monitoring for client-managed Qlik Sense. Key metrics for both Sense and Windows are monitored together with errors and warnings from the Sense logs. In this article you find a complete recipe for how to set up Butler SOS.

Ctrl-Q makes life a bit easier for Qlik Sense admins and developers

An update of recent updates

It's been a while since the last newsletter, not because of lack of progress on the various Butler tools - rather the opposite. We have also moved ptarmiganlabs.com to a new, better hosting solution. Looong overdue but it finally happened. Among other things this means that you

Black box monitoring of Butler tools - monitoring the monitor

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

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

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

Butler SOS 5.4 is out: good looks and app details

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

If you don't measure it, you can't improve it: DevOps concepts meets Qlik Sense

If you don't measure it, you can't improve it: DevOps concepts meets Qlik Sense

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,

Monitoring for Qlik Sense: Butler SOS v3 is out

Monitoring for Qlik Sense: Butler SOS v3 is out

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

The beauty of Docker - how to run all Butler tools with a single command

The beauty of Docker - how to run all Butler tools with a single command

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

Monitoring and auto-starting Node.js services on Windows Server

Monitoring and auto-starting Node.js services on Windows Server

When relying on various Node.js services (e.g. Butler SOS, Butler, App Duplicator etc), you quickly run into the challenge to ensure all services are always up and running. A failing service might be fine, as long as it is quickly restarted in a predictable way. A concrete example

Butler SOS goes main stage at Qonnections 2017

Butler SOS goes main stage at Qonnections 2017

Edit: Qlik has made available a video from Anthony Deighton’s (Qlik’s CTO) keynote session. Very much worth looking through the entire video – it was very interesting indeed. His highlight of customer and partner project’s is found 12 min 36 sec into the video. A few weeks back

Butler SOS: real-time server stats for Qlik Sense

Butler SOS: real-time server stats for Qlik Sense

I got somewhat distracted from the idea of breaking up the existing Butler software into smaller, stand-alone micro services. Or rather, an idea came to mind. An idea too good not to explore… The healthcheck API of Qlik Sense provides basic metrics for both the Qlik Sense engine itself, and

Butler-MQTT and a realtime reload dashboard for Sense

Butler-MQTT and a realtime reload dashboard for Sense

Teaser video: Realtime reload dashboard Just to get your interest – this video shows what Butler-MQTT can be used for. All the pieces are included in the Github repo. The concept of a reload dashboard can be very useful if you have long running (hours!) reloads. Instead of relying on Sense’