Our team was happy to see recently that Qlik exposed a new Audit API event to reflect user views of individual sheets. This theoretically gives us the ability track the usage across all our reports to understand user adoption of our BI offerings. Despite this, we are encountering several problems operationalizing this Audit API event to a useful level. Our end goal is to have data in a form that lists how many times a sheet was viewed over a period of time along with related dimensions such as app, space, user name, and any other insightful info available.
We experimented briefly with adapting the existing community monitoring apps to try and add this Audit event but have little experience with the level of scripting required. The ideal solution would be a Qlik app like these monitoring apps that would allow us to pull data through a REST connection, store it in QVD form and then aggregate sheet usage events by user/app/timeframe/etc.
We are also able to reach this info through the Qlik-CLI, but are apprehensive to start building infrastructure to automate and store this data without exploring other options.
Has anyone experimented with possible tools/Qlik apps/automations to leverage this new API event? Does the Qlik product team have plans to release any native functionality to make this data more accessible?
Any input or suggestions are appreciated!
