Deprecation of Centralized Logging in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows

[Jamie_Gregory]

Hello Qlik Users!

We would like to announce the deprecation of the Centralized Logging service in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows by the end of 2021.  

We will remove the Centralized Logging service to make Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows more reliable and performant.

Logging will continue to be available in file format. We are updating the monitoring applications to support this change and provide you with the same insights.  

With Qlik Sense Enterprise May 2021 and on, a fresh installation of Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows will not deploy Centralized Logging.  

We will provide a firm date for the removal of the service later this year.

As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you for choosing Qlik! 

Kind regards,

Qlik Global Support 

[mountaindude]

@IuliaM , @jpjust 

The open-source (free!) Butler tool does this and much more.

A recent version (a few weeks ago) added stand-alone, pre-built binaries - making it a lot easier to get started with Butler compared to previous versions.
There are pre-built binaries for Windows, Linux, macOS and Docker.

It detects failed and aborted reload tasks in client-managed Qlik Sense.
Alerts can be sent via email, Slack, Teams, outgoing webhooks, via Signl4 and New Relic (part of v7.3, released today!).

When alerts are sent via email, Slack or Teams a template engine can be used, with included template files showing how to create
alerts including LOTS of info, including the last X lines of the script log of the failed reload.

If you want to forward failed reload events to enterprise incident management tools like New Relic or Signl4 that's possible too.

In addition to the reload failure alerts Butler includes things like an advanced task scheduler, a key-value store (useful for passing parameters between tasks!), an API for easily starting tasks for upstream data sources/systems and more.

Butler site: https://butler.ptarmiganlabs.com/ 
Discussions: https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/butler/discussions 

Here's what an alert email can look like in GMail:

[mountaindude]

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[mountaindude]

Sigh - looks like the forums is feeling bad. Can't delete or edit posts 😞

[IuliaM]

Hi @SusanSewell , thank you for your message, this was very helpful, i managed to update my app.

cheers!

Iulia

[jpjust]

Hi - Have an question. Only fresh installation removes centralized logging? 

I did upgraded to November 2021 version and centralized logging still exists.

Thanks

[Jamie_Gregory]

@mountaindude You should be able to edit your own comments or delete. If you still cannot, please let me know. 

@jpjust Yes, only when it's a fresh installation.

[soysauce]

I do have an app using Qlogs. ( Currently using centralized logging)

am i be able to use this app without any modification after upgrading NOV 2021(Currently using PG Version9.6) TO NOV 2022(going to upgrade PG To 12.5 using QPI)

?

[PabloLabbeImaps]

@soysauce , the QLogs database will not be updated by the qlik services . It will remain in your environment as a static database. 

[soysauce]

@ PabloLabbeImaps

Thanks for your reply 🙂

will it be stored as log file after update Qlik sense then??

How do I get user's operating  information  on Qlik Sense?

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

Hello @soysauce 

Correct, the log information will be stored in files.

For more information on how to collect log files and some best practices for analysing them, see:

How To Collect Log Files From Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows 
Reading and Analyzing Qlik Sense and QlikView log files using the QlikCockpit 

Here is more information about what each log contains:

Log folder 

And we have monitoring applications that come bundled with Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows which can help you visualise them by default:

Monitoring Apps for Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows 

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Sonja