## Crawl Qlik Sense Cloud

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/qlik-sense-cloud/how-tos/crawl-qlik-sense-cloud

> Extract metadata from Qlik Sense Cloud to catalog applications, sheets, and visualizations. Discover and govern your BI assets after configuring permissions.

Extract metadata from your [Qlik Sense Cloud](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/qlik-sense-cloud/set-up-qlik-sense-cloud/llms.txt) environment into Atlan to catalog applications, sheets, and visualizations. After configuring the necessary permissions, you can establish a connection and crawl to extract usage and lineage information.

To crawl metadata from Qlik Sense Cloud, review th

e [order of operations](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/catalog/connector-capabilities/order-workflows/llms.txt) and then complete the following steps.

## Select the source

To select Qlik Sense Cloud as your source:

1. In your Atlan workspace, click **Connectors** in the left sidebar.
 * If you are using the **Old UI (Classic)**, click **New Workflow** in the top navigation.

2. Click **Marketplace**.

3. Search for **Qlik Sense Assets** and select it.

4. Click **Install**.

5. Once installation completes, click **Setup Workflow** on the same tile.

## Provide your credentials

To enter your Qlik Sense Cloud credentials:

1. For _Host_, enter the tenant URL for your Qlik Sense Cloud instance.

2. For _Port_, enter the port number for your Qlik Sense Cloud instance.

3. For _Authentication_, _API key_ is the default option.

4. For _API Key_, enter the [API key you copied](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/qlik-sense-cloud/set-up-qlik-sense-cloud/llms.txt) from your Qlik Sense Cloud instance.

5. Click the **Test Authentication** button to confirm connectivity to Qlik Sense Cloud.

6. Once authentication is successful, navigate to the bottom of the screen and click **Next**.

## Configure the connection

To complete the Qlik Sense Cloud connection configuration:

1. Provide a _Connection Name_ that represents your source environment. For example, you might use values like `production`,`development`,`gold`, or `analytics`.

2. (Optional) To change the users who are able to manage this connection, change the users or groups listed under _Connection Admins_.

 :::warning

 If you do not specify any user or group, no one will be able to manage the connection - not even admins.

 :::

3. Navigate to the bottom of the screen and click **Next** to proceed.

## Configure the crawler

Before running the Qlik Sense Cloud crawler, you can further configure it.

On the _Metadata_ page, you can override the defaults for any of these options:

- To select the assets you want to exclude from crawling, click **Exclude Spaces**. (This will default to no assets if none are specified.)
- To select the assets you want to include in crawling, click **Include Spaces**. (This will default to all assets, if none are specified.)

:::info **Did you know?** 
 If an asset appears in both the include and exclude filters, the exclude filter takes precedence.

:::

## Run the crawler

To run the Qlik Sense Cloud crawler, after completing the steps above:

1. To check for any [permissions or other configuration issues](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/connectors/qlik-sense-cloud/preflight-checks-for-qlik-sense-cloud/llms.txt) before running the crawler, click **Preflight checks**.

2. You can either:
 - To run the crawler once immediately, at the bottom of the screen, click the **Run** button.
 - To schedule the crawler to run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, at the bottom of the screen, click the **Schedule Run** button.

Once the crawler has completed running, you will see the assets on Atlan's asset page! 🎉

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