25 posts tagged butler, newest first.
Reload alerts, task scheduling and more for Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
Let's do a deep-dive into the logs of client-managed Qlik Sense (QSEoW), looking at what kind of logs it creates. The qs-log-scanner tool captures, groups, and visualizes log subsystems and log levels so you can understand which real-time signals exist for monitoring your Qlik Sense environment.
Butler 15.0 is a major release that extends monitoring and alerting to all task types in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows. Previously, only reload tasks were fully supported. This release adds comprehensive support for external program tasks, user sync tasks, distribute tasks, and preload tasks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 can
…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
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
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