Today, companies have a wide variety of dashboards and reports at their disposal, but important changes in the data often go undetected until action is already required. The new Qlik Discovery Agent addresses this very issue and helps automatically identify relevant anomalies and trends.
In most companies today, comprehensive dashboards have become indispensable. But they only add value if they are actively monitored. After all, business data is constantly changing – for example, as metrics shift and patterns evolve. Important signals are often hidden within complex combinations of dimensions, and teams simply don’t have the time to review every chart every day. In many cases, by the time a problem is discovered, it’s already too late to take action.
Traditional alerts don’t solve this problem, as they’re usually based on rigid thresholds, predefined logic, and ongoing maintenance. They only detect the changes that are specifically being looked for. But what about the changes that no one is monitoring? Qlik’s new Discovery Agent can now help with this.
Proactive insights instead of reactive monitoring
The Discovery Agent autonomously monitors business data to detect unusual changes as soon as they occur. Rather than relying on manual dashboard checks or rigid alert rules, it analyzes Qlik Cloud applications in the background to uncover the most important insights.
The Discovery Agent autonomously detects changes such as:
- Spikes and sudden drops
- Significant shifts in trends
- Record highs or lows
- Changes in baseline behavior
- Deviations from forecasts
- Potential data quality issues
The agent then evaluates the statistical significance of the anomaly and prioritizes only the most meaningful insights. Through a direct link to Qlik Answers, these insights can then be further analyzed by AI. The result: Teams see what’s important at a glance and can respond more quickly.
The Discovery Agent thus revolutionizes the way companies monitor their performance and delivers prioritized insights directly to users via an intelligent feed and a summary.
Every detected change is summarized in clear, understandable language so that users can quickly identify:
- What has changed?
- Where did it happen?
- Why is it important?
This significantly reduces the time spent manually reviewing metrics and helps companies identify emerging issues and opportunities early on.
Support from the Qlik Analytics Engine
The Discovery Agent is built directly on the Qlik Analytics Engine. This enables the Agent to analyze metrics and detect anomalies across extensive combinations of dimension values for entire data models – at high speed and on a large scale. The engine evaluates relationships across the entire dataset and supports fast analytical calculations on a large scale.
