25 posts tagged butler, newest first.
Reload alerts, task scheduling and more for Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
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
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
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,
The original member of the Butler family has been updated to version 2.1. This is an incremental update, but it nonetheless contain some interesting news: * Updated all underlying libraries to their latest versions, to make sure things are up-to-date with respect to security vulnerabilities etc. * Fixed various
This one is long overdue, but finally here: Butler SOS v2.0 The new version is an almost complete re-write of v1.0. Changes are plentiful and include * All warnings and errors stored by Sense in its log database are now pulled into Butler SOS, from where it can
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
I was recently in Helsinki, giving a talk at a QlikDevGroup event. Great event, great crowd. The topic was SenseOps and Butler SOS, and I showcased the lamp above as an example of a funky, but still relevant way to monitor user activity in a Qlik Sense Enterprise environment. A
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
For some time I have been thinking about how to improve the Sense development process as a whole. There is a lot of gathered experience and best practices from the wider software development community, but how can we apply this to Qlik Sense development? Some initiatives are starting to appear.
A summer project is over, and Butler has been released in a version that is a total rewrite of Butler version 1.x. Butler 2.0 includes features such as * Real-time monitoring of what users are active on a Sense Enterprise system * Real-time monitoring of failed reload tasks,