Many customers rely on the Capacity Consumption Report in Qlik Cloud to understand usage and billing patterns. Until now, deploying and refreshing this app required repetitive manual steps: downloading from the admin console, publishing it into a managed space, and re-publishing every time a new version was needed.
This approach made monitoring difficult and often left customers with out-of-date insights.
What's new
A new Qlik Automate template automates the end-to-end deployment of the consumption app into a managed space of your choice. Once set up, the app is refreshed daily - ready for admins or billing users to work with.
With this in place, you can:
Stay current – The app refreshes once per day (morning CET), so your analytics reflect the latest usage data.
Collaborate easily – Place the app directly into a managed space for shared access.
Enable subscriptions and alerts – Users can subscribe to sheets or KPIs, or create alerts on thresholds that matter to them.
Maintain governance – The template creates/uses the right spaces and applies roles automatically.
Eliminate manual work – No more re-publishing or searching through personal space copies.
How it works
The automation checks that you are on a capacity-based subscription (your app size must be 100MB or less; larger data sets still need to be deployed manually or via script).
It ensures you are a TenantAdmin (required for license and app access).
It creates a staging space (for imports) and a managed space (for sharing).
It imports the latest version of the app into staging, then publishes it to the managed space.
You can configure how many historic versions you want to keep in the shared space. By default, no staged apps are kept.
Scheduling
Since the underlying data is refreshed once per day in the morning CET, we recommend scheduling this automation to run around midday CET. This ensures that your managed space always holds the latest daily version of the app.
Requirements
TenantAdmin role
Capacity-based subscription
Report size ≤100MB (larger reports cannot currently be deployed with Qlik Automate)
Get Started
Create a new automation, navigate to the App Installer category, and select the Capacity consumption app deployer template.
Update the variables (space names, versions to keep).
Test manually once.
Schedule it to run daily (around midday CET).
Once enabled, you’ll have a single source of truth for consumption reporting - ready to drive alerts, subscriptions, and collaborative analysis across your admins.
It’s a bit unfortunate that it was made available only for capacity-based tenants. On user-based tenants, we have 3 of the 8 metrics for which reporting is valuable:
