Qlik Sense

Important Capabilities

Capability	Status	Notes
Asset Containers	✅	Enabled by default
Column-level Lineage	✅	Disabled by default.
Descriptions	✅	Enabled by default
Detect Deleted Entities	✅	Optionally enabled via stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata
Extract Ownership	✅	Enabled by default, configured using ingest_owner
Platform Instance	✅	Enabled by default
Schema Metadata	✅	Enabled by default
Table-Level Lineage	✅	Enabled by default.

This plugin extracts the following:

• Qlik Sense Spaces and Apps as Container.
• Qlik Datasets
• Sheets as dashboard and its charts

Integration Details

This source extracts the following:

• Accessible spaces and apps within that spaces as Container.
• Qlik Datasets as Datahub Datasets with schema metadata.
• Sheets as Datahub dashboard and charts present inside sheets.

Configuration Notes

1. Refer doc to generate an API key from the hub.
2. Get tenant hostname from About tab after login to qlik sense account.

Concept mapping

Qlik Sense	Datahub	Notes
Space	Container	SubType "Qlik Space"
App	Container	SubType "Qlik App"
Sheet	Dashboard
Chart	Chart
Dataset	Dataset	SubType "Qlik Dataset"
User	User (a.k.a CorpUser)	Optionally Extracted

CLI based Ingestion

Install the Plugin

The qlik-sense source works out of the box with acryl-datahub.

Starter Recipe

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

source:
  type: qlik-sense
  config:
    # Coordinates
    tenant_hostname: "xyz12xz.us.qlikcloud.com"
    # Credentials
    api_key: "QLIK_API_KEY"
    
    # Optional - filter for certain space names instead of ingesting everything.
    # Mention 'personal_space' if entities of personal space need to ingest
    # space_pattern:
    #   allow:
    #     - space_name

    ingest_owner: true
    
    # Optional -- This mapping is optional and only required to configure platform-instance for Qlik app dataset upstream source tables
    # A mapping of the Qlik app dataset upstream tables from data connection to platform instance. Use 'data_connection_name' as key.
    # data_connection_to_platform_instance:
    #   data_connection_name:
    #     platform_instance: cloud_instance
    #     env: DEV

sink:
  # sink configs

Config Details

Options

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

Field	Description
api_key ✅ string	Qlik API Key
tenant_hostname ✅ string	Qlik Tenant hostname
ingest_owner boolean	Ingest Owner from source. This will override Owner info entered from UI Default: True
platform_instance string	The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to
env string	The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to Default: PROD
data_connection_to_platform_instance map(str,PlatformDetail)	Any source that connects to a platform should inherit this class
data_connection_to_platform_instance.key.env string	The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to Default: PROD
data_connection_to_platform_instance.key.platform_instance string	The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to
space_pattern AllowDenyPattern	Regex patterns to filter Qlik spaces in ingestion.Mention 'personal_space' if entities of personal space need to ingest Default: {'allow': ['.*'], 'deny': [], 'ignoreCase': True}
space_pattern.ignoreCase boolean	Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching. Default: True
space_pattern.allow array	List of regex patterns to include in ingestion Default: ['.*']
space_pattern.allow.string string
space_pattern.deny array	List of regex patterns to exclude from ingestion. Default: []
space_pattern.deny.string string
stateful_ingestion StatefulIngestionConfig	Stateful Ingestion Config
stateful_ingestion.enabled boolean	Whether or not to enable stateful ingest. Default: True if a pipeline_name is set and either a datahub-rest sink or datahub_api is specified, otherwise False Default: False

Schema

The JSONSchema for this configuration is inlined below.

{
  "title": "QlikSourceConfig",
  "description": "Base configuration class for stateful ingestion for source configs to inherit from.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "env": {
      "title": "Env",
      "description": "The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to",
      "default": "PROD",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "platform_instance": {
      "title": "Platform Instance",
      "description": "The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "stateful_ingestion": {
      "title": "Stateful Ingestion",
      "description": "Stateful Ingestion Config",
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/StatefulIngestionConfig"
        }
      ]
    },
    "tenant_hostname": {
      "title": "Tenant Hostname",
      "description": "Qlik Tenant hostname",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "api_key": {
      "title": "Api Key",
      "description": "Qlik API Key",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "space_pattern": {
      "title": "Space Pattern",
      "description": "Regex patterns to filter Qlik spaces in ingestion.Mention 'personal_space' if entities of personal space need to ingest",
      "default": {
        "allow": [
          ".*"
        ],
        "deny": [],
        "ignoreCase": true
      },
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/definitions/AllowDenyPattern"
        }
      ]
    },
    "ingest_owner": {
      "title": "Ingest Owner",
      "description": "Ingest Owner from source. This will override Owner info entered from UI",
      "default": true,
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "data_connection_to_platform_instance": {
      "title": "Data Connection To Platform Instance",
      "description": "A mapping of the Qlik app dataset upstream tables from data connection to platform instance.Use 'data_connection_name' as key.",
      "default": {},
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "$ref": "#/definitions/PlatformDetail"
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "tenant_hostname",
    "api_key"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "definitions": {
    "DynamicTypedStateProviderConfig": {
      "title": "DynamicTypedStateProviderConfig",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "title": "Type",
          "description": "The type of the state provider to use. For DataHub use `datahub`",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "config": {
          "title": "Config",
          "description": "The configuration required for initializing the state provider. Default: The datahub_api config if set at pipeline level. Otherwise, the default DatahubClientConfig. See the defaults (https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/master/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/graph/client.py#L19).",
          "default": {},
          "type": "object"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "StatefulIngestionConfig": {
      "title": "StatefulIngestionConfig",
      "description": "Basic Stateful Ingestion Specific Configuration for any source.",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "enabled": {
          "title": "Enabled",
          "description": "Whether or not to enable stateful ingest. Default: True if a pipeline_name is set and either a datahub-rest sink or `datahub_api` is specified, otherwise False",
          "default": false,
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "AllowDenyPattern": {
      "title": "AllowDenyPattern",
      "description": "A class to store allow deny regexes",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "allow": {
          "title": "Allow",
          "description": "List of regex patterns to include in ingestion",
          "default": [
            ".*"
          ],
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "deny": {
          "title": "Deny",
          "description": "List of regex patterns to exclude from ingestion.",
          "default": [],
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "ignoreCase": {
          "title": "Ignorecase",
          "description": "Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.",
          "default": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "PlatformDetail": {
      "title": "PlatformDetail",
      "description": "Any source that connects to a platform should inherit this class",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "env": {
          "title": "Env",
          "description": "The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to",
          "default": "PROD",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "platform_instance": {
          "title": "Platform Instance",
          "description": "The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Code Coordinates

• Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.qlik_sense.qlik_sense.QlikSenseSource
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Questions

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