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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.
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Batch reload information and timing
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Task/Job failures, run rates and durations
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…And much much more
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Users, sessions and license utilization
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Document reloads, distributions and recipients
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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.