36 posts tagged senseops, newest first.
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
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
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,
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
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,
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
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.