Command line options
Description of Butler SOS’ command line options.
Reference docs
Technical reference docs and general sources of information that might be useful.
References in this site
Config file format
A detailed description of all configuration options in the main config file is available here.
Available metrics
A complete list of all metrics provided by Butler SOS is found here.
Useuful references out there
Qlik Sense APIs
Qlik’s API documentation is found here.
InfluxDB
InfluxDB docs here.
Note that Butler SOS was developed with InfluxDB 1.x in mind. It is not currently compatible with InfluxDB 2.x.
Prometheus
Prometheus docs here.
Grafana
Grafana docs here.
MQTT
There are various MQTT brokers available, both commercial and open source.
Mosquitto is an open sourceMQTT broker with a solid track record and available as a Docker container.
There are also plenty of companies offering SaaS MQTT brokers, ranging from small specialised companies to the big cloud providers.
Config file format
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Butler SOS configuration file.
Available Metrics
In order to create graphs in for example Grafana, you must understand what metrics are available and how they are structured.