Qlik Sense Enterprise Client-Managed offers a range of Monitoring Applications that come pre-installed with the product.
Qlik Cloud offers the Data Capacity Reporting App for customers on a capacity subscription, and additionally customers can opt to leverage the Qlik Cloud Monitoring apps.
This article provides information on available apps for each platform.
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Qlik Cloud
Data Capacity Reporting App
The Data Capacity Reporting App is a Qlik Sense application built for Qlik Cloud, which helps you to monitor the capacity consumption for your license at both a consolidated and a detailed level. It is available for deployment via the administration activity center in a tenant with a capacity subscription.
The Data Capacity Reporting App is a fully supported app distributed within the product. For more information, see Qlik Help.
Access Evaluator for Qlik Cloud
The Access Evaluator is a Qlik Sense application built for Qlik Cloud, which helps you to analyze user roles, access, and permissions across a tenant.
The app provides:
- User and group access to spaces
- User, group, and share access to apps
- User roles and associated role permissions
- Group assignments to roles
For more information, see Qlik Cloud Access Evaluator.
Answers Analyzer for Qlik Cloud
The Answers Analyzer provides a comprehensive Qlik Sense dashboard to analyze Qlik Answers metadata across a Qlik Cloud tenant.
It provides the ability to:
- Track user questions across knowledgebases, assistants, and source documents
- Analyze user behavior to see what types of questions users are asking about what content
- Optimize knowledgebase sizes and increase answer accuracy by removing inaccurate, unused, and unreferenced documents
- Track and monitor page size to quota
- Ensure that data is kept up to date by monitoring knowledgebase index times
- Tie alerts into metrics, (e.g. a knowledgebase hasn't been updated in over X days)
For more information, see Qlik Cloud Answers Analyzer.
App Analyzer for Qlik Cloud
The App Analyzer is a Qlik Sense application built for Qlik Cloud, which helps you to analyze and monitor Qlik Sense applications in your tenant.
The app provides:
- App, Table and Field memory footprints
- Synthetic keys and island tables to help improve app development
- Threshold analysis for fields, tables, rows and more
- Reload times and peak RAM utilization by app
For more information, see Qlik Cloud App Analyzer.
Automation Analyzer for Qlik Cloud
The Automation Analyzer is a Qlik Sense application built for Qlik Cloud, which helps you to analyze and monitor Qlik Application Automation runs in your tenant.
Some of the benefits of this application are as follows:
- Track number of automations by type and by user
- Analyze concurrent automations
- Compare current month vs prior month runs
- Analyze failed runs - view all schedules and their statuses
- Tie in Qlik Alerting
For more information, see Qlik Cloud Automation Analyzer.
Entitlement Analyzer for Qlik Cloud
The Entitlement Analyzer is a Qlik Sense application built for Qlik Cloud, which provides Entitlement usage overview for your Qlik Cloud tenant for user-based subscriptions.
The app provides:
- Which users are accessing which apps
- Consumption of Professional, Analyzer and Analyzer Capacity entitlements
- Whether you have the correct entitlements assigned to each of your users
- Where your Analyzer Capacity entitlements are being consumed, and forecasted usage
For more information, see The Entitlement Analyzer.
Reload Analyzer for Qlik Cloud
The Reload Analyzer is a Qlik Sense application built for Qlik Cloud, which provides an overview of data refreshes for your Qlik Cloud tenant.
The app provides:
- The number of reloads by type (Scheduled, Hub, In App, API) and by user
- Data connections and used files of each app’s most recent reload
- Reload concurrency and peak reload RAM
- Reload tasks and their respective statuses
For more information, see Qlik Cloud Reload Analyzer.
Report Analyzer for Qlik Cloud
The Report Analyzer provides a comprehensive dashboard to analyze metered report metadata across a Qlik Cloud tenant.
The app provides:
- Current Month Reports Metric
- History of Reports Metric
- Breakdown of Reports Metric by App, Event, Executor (and time periods)
- Failed Reports
- Report Execution Duration
For more information, see Qlik Cloud Report Analyzer.
How to automate the Qlik Cloud Monitoring Apps
Do you want to automate the installation, upgrade, and management of your Qlik Cloud Monitoring apps? With the Qlik Cloud Monitoring Apps Workflow, made possible through Qlik's Application Automation, you can:
- Install/update the apps with a fully guided, click-through installer using an out-of-the-box Qlik Application Automation template.
- Programmatically rotate the API key that is required for the data connection on a schedule using an out-of-the-box Qlik Application Automation template. This ensures that the data connection is always operational.
- Get alerted whenever a new version of a monitoring app is available using Qlik Data Alerts.
For more information and usage instructions, see Qlik Cloud Monitoring Apps Workflow Guide.
Other Qlik Cloud Monitoring Apps
OEM Dashboard for Qlik Cloud
The OEM Dashboard is a Qlik Sense application for Qlik Cloud designed for OEM partners to centrally monitor usage data across their customers’ tenants. It provides a single pane to review numerous dimensions and measures, compare trends, and quickly spot issues across many different areas.
Although this dashboard is designed for OEMs, it can also be used by partners and customers who manage more than one tenant in Qlik Cloud.
For more information and to download the app and usage instructions, see Qlik Cloud OEM Dashboard & Console Settings Collector.
With the exception of the Data Capacity Reporting App, all Qlik Cloud monitoring applications are provided as-is and are not supported by Qlik. Over time, the APIs and metrics used by the apps may change, so it is advised to monitor each repository for updates and to update the apps promptly when new versions are available.
If you have issues while using these apps, support is provided on a best-efforts basis by contributors to the repositories on GitHub.
Monitoring Apps for Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
Operations Monitor and License Monitor
The Operations Monitor loads service logs to populate charts covering performance history of hardware utilization, active users, app sessions, results of reload tasks, and errors and warnings. It also tracks changes made in the QMC that affect the Operations Monitor.
The License Monitor loads service logs to populate charts and tables covering token allocation, usage of login and user passes, and errors and warnings.
For a more detailed description of the sheets and visualizations in both apps, visit the story About the License Monitor or About the Operations Monitor that is available from the app overview page, under Stories.
Basic information can be found here:
The License Monitor
The Operations Monitor
Both apps come pre-installed with Qlik Sense.
If a direct download is required: Sense License Monitor | Sense Operations Monitor. Note that Support can only be provided for Apps pre-installed with your latest version of Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows.
App Metadata Analyzer
The App Metadata Analyzer app provides a dashboard to analyze Qlik Sense application metadata across your Qlik Sense Enterprise deployment. It gives you a holistic view of all your Qlik Sense apps, including granular level detail of an app's data model and its resource utilization.
Basic information can be found here:
App Metadata Analyzer (help.qlik.com)
For more details and best practices, see:
App Metadata Analyzer (Admin Playbook)
The app comes pre-installed with Qlik Sense.
The Monitoring & Administration Topic Group
Looking to discuss the Monitoring Applications? Here we share key versions of the Sense Monitor Apps and the latest QV Governance Dashboard as well as discuss best practices, post video tutorials, and ask questions.
Monitoring & Administration
Other Apps
LogAnalysis App: The Qlik Sense app for troubleshooting Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows logs
Sessions Monitor, Reloads-Monitor, Log-Monitor
Connectors Log Analyzer
All Other Apps are provided as-is and no ongoing support will be provided by Qlik Support.
