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QlikView Monitor Applications Overview QlikView Monitor Applications Why Monitor? Effective monitoring and proactive planning of component and usage growth are an essential contributor to success in any BI project. They are also a best practice for QlikView implementations. Knowing where your QlikView applications are, how they are growing, how they are being used and who is using them is just the beginning. Being proactive in managing a QlikView deployment not only impresses and assures stakeholders, but it lowers maintenance costs, rework, cyclical auditing, cleanup work and time-to-resolution for any issues related to your applications, data and servers. QlikTech offers, free of charge, a set of monitoring applications that will continually collect and present the data, trends and alerts that will help you stay ahead of the growth curve with QlikView. What to Monitor? QlikView Governance Dashboard The QlikView Governance Dashboard is a free QlikView application available on QlikMarket (http://market.qlikview.com/) that delivers a 360 degree view of any QlikView deployment starting with version 10 SR2 and up. Created using QlikView and QlikView Expressor technology, the QlikView Governance Dashboard focuses on managing and understanding the QlikView environment. It allows QlikView and IT professionals to discover how QlikView is being used. This information subsequently helps to introduce a more manageable and repeatable process when developing QlikView applications, addressing data lineage and impact analysis type questions, allowing them to maximize data governance and optimize their QlikView investment. QlikView Monitor Applications Overview QVD Monitor The QVD Monitor allows you to monitor the trends and components of QVD files in your environment. This is essential in proactively planning and monitoring growth of larger deployments. In addition, you view common field names across files, get visual growth alerts, see the history of a QVD file and its column details. A “collector” application comes with this application and is configured to scan the folders you specify for QVD files. Once configured, you can run the collector application on any schedule you specify to collect metadata about your QVDs and store that data into QVD files for this application to use. And, since it’s stored in QVDs, you can easily integrate this metadata into your own applications with little effort. See the historical trends for a QVD’s size and row counts over time. This is a valuable capability for capacity planning and application tuning. Look up specific field names to see which QVDs contain them, their record counts, value counts and cardinality. This is very useful when promoting re-use and planning for an efficient QVD layer in larger deployments. QlikView Monitor Applications Overview Systems Monitor The Systems Monitor displays the logging and repository data that QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher create about jobs, tasks, events, sessions, documents users and performance. Spend 1 minute on the Dashboard page of this application to quickly identify any jobs, tasks or documents that need attention. Graphs display the trends and focal points for analysis. The data is also available in straight table format for export or detailed analysis. - Batch reload information and timing - Task/Job failures, run rates and durations - …And much much more - Users, sessions and license utilization - Document reloads, distributions and recipients - Server CPU and RAM utilization QlikView Monitor Applications Overview When to Use These Tools All three of these utilities should be used daily for simple, quick monitoring. The Systems Monitor should at least have the dashboard page viewed to look for any anomalies that might exist in server components or usage. This can be quick and usually only takes 1-2 minutes. The QVD Monitor can either be viewed daily (to look for anomalies) or can be tied to alerts that are triggered by thresholds. An example would be an alert tied to the growth (or shrinkage) of a QVD file by any percentage of size. The Governance Dashboard should also be viewed daily for anomalies. Beyond daily monitoring for anomalies, each of these utilities should have a deeper analysis done monthly. The trends and outliers should be analyzed to see new patterns emerging and to react to them before they can cause problems. This activity normally takes about 20 minutes per utility. Each 90 days these utilities should be used to do capacity planning for the deployment. Using the tables and charts supplied in these utilities, you can measure the amounts of data, applications, usage, memory and code being generated. This will help you to project sizing and utilization for future growth. This activity can take 23 hours for a deployment each 90 days. Below is a sample timeline for these uses of the QlikView Monitoring tools. This is just a sample, based on feedback from existing customers.