This is part 2 in a series about how healthchecks.io can be used together with Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (QSEoW).
Previous articles:
Oh data where art thou?
Windows Server just works… right?
Usually, yes.
Still, things do happen and it certainly would be nice to get an push alert when a server hasn’t checked in according to schedule.
The most common monitoring – for Windows/Linux/…. servers, databases, Qlik Sense etc is based on the tool keeping an eye on some measurement and then alert when the measurement goes beyond some threshold.
This is fine, and this is a very important monitoring use case. But in cases where a server just hangs the last measurement received might be fine, and no alerts are sent.
Black box monitoring kind of reverses the roles:
The monitored system has to prove that it’s doing fine. Failing to do so within some predefined schedule will trigger an alarm, with an optional alert being sent.
The previous article showed how this concept can be used to ensure that some Qlik Sense app has reloaded as intended, before a specific time each day. A concrete, common use case would be that yesterday’s data should be processed and loaded into Sense before 7 am next day. Alert if not)
Now, let’s use the same tool and concept to monitor also the Windows servers that Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (QSEoW) runs on.