Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is a business intelligence and visual analytics platform that supports a range of use cases including centrally deployed analytic applications, dashboards, custom, and embedded analytics within a scalable framework.
Objects Extracted
The Qlik Sense resource extracts metadata from the following assets in a Qlik Sense data source:
- •Applications
- •Sheets
- •Stories
- •Measures
- •Dimensions
- •Charts
- •Fields
- •Tables (staging data table)
Prerequisites
Add the machine details of the Qlik Sense host to the /etc/hosts file in the domain machine and the cluster machine where the Catalog Service is running.
You must install the Enterprise Data Catalog Agent to extract metadata from Qlik Sense running on Microsoft Windows.
Permissions to Configure the Resource
Assign the RootAdmin role to the Qlik Sense user to access all the assets in the Qlik Sense resource.
Basic Information
The General tab includes the following basic information about the resource:
Information | Description |
|---|
Name | The name of the resource. |
Description | The description of the resource. |
Resource type | The type of the resource. |
Execute On | You can choose to execute on the default catalog server or offline. |
Resource Connection Properties
The General tab includes the following properties:
Property | Description |
|---|
Agent URL | URL of the external MITI agent. Note: To extract metadata from the Qlik Sense data source, you must install the Enterprise Data Catalog Agent on the Qlik Sense server. |
Engine API URL | URL of the Qlik API Engine. |
User | User name of the administrator to connect to the Qlik Sense server. |
User Directory | User directory of the Qlik Sense server. |
Certificate | Location of the Qlik Sense client certificate. |
Certificate Password | Password of the Qlik Sense client certificate. Specify the password if the Qlik Sense client certificate is generated with a password. |
The following table describes the properties that you can configure in the Source Metadata section of the Metadata Load Settings tab:
Property | Description |
|---|
Enable Source Metadata | Enables metadata extraction. |
Applications | Select the required applications created in the Qlik Sense source system. |
Log Folder for Selected Applications | Path of the Qlik Sense log folder that is common for the selected applications. |
Memory | The memory value required to run a scanner job. Specify one of the following memory values: Note: For more information about the memory values, see the Tuning Enterprise Data Catalog Performance article in How To-Library Articles tab in the Informatica Doc Portal |
Custom Options | JVM parameters that you can set to configure scanner container. Use the following arguments to configure the parameters: - - -Dscannerloglevel=<DEBUG/INFO/ERROR>. Changes the log level of scanner to values, such as DEBUG, INFO, or ERROR. Default value is INFO.
- - -DagentLogLevel=<NONE/FATAL/ERROR/WARNING/STATUS/INFO/DEBUG>. Changes the Enterprise Data Catalog Agent log level to values such as NONE, FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, STATUS, INFO, and DEBUG. Default log level is DEBUG. Use the ERROR log level when the Qlik Sense data set is huge.
- - -Dscanner.container.core=<No. of core>. Increases the core for the scanner container. The value must be a number.
- - -Dscanner.yarn.app.environment=<key=value>. Key pair value that you need to set in the Yarn environment. Use a comma to separate the multiple key value pairs.
- - -Dscanner.pmem.enabled.container.memory.jvm.memory.ratio=<1.0/2.0>. Increases the scanner container memory when pmem is enabled. Default value is 1.
Note: You can enable miscellaneous options such as DatabaseType, FILEPATH, RequireLog, and m for a Qlik Sense resource using the Custom Options. |
Track Data Source Changes | View metadata source change notifications in Enterprise Data Catalog. |
Auto Assign Connections | Indicates whether the connections must be assigned automatically. |
Enable Reference Resources | Extracts metadata about assets that are not included in this resource, but referred to in the resource. Examples include source and target tables in PowerCenter mappings, and source tables and files from Tableau reports. |
Unsupported Features
You cannot view the external lineage for applications that generate a QVD file for a Qlik Sense resource.