Deploying and administering Qlik MCP server

Qlik MCP Server is available with all Qlik Cloud subscriptions, but it must be activated by a tenant administrator. Qlik MCP server is administered from the Administration activity center.

Deploying Qlik MCP server for a tenant

A tenant administrator must do the following to allow their tenant's users to use Qlik MCP server:

1. Activate AI features in Qlik Cloud.

2. Update user roles or create a new user role with permission to access Qlik MCP server.

3. Create the first MCP connection from a LLM client using an OAuth client, such as Claude or ChatGPT.

   This step must be repeated for each different LLM client.

Activating AI features in Qlik Cloud

To use Qlik MCP server for a tenant, you must opt in to using AI features in Qlik Cloud. This allows the server to temporarily process data outside your tenant region, which is required for AI features. For details and the latest information about processing locations, see Enabling cross-region data processing.

Once activated, Qlik MCP permissions will be available for user roles and OAuth clients.

Allow user access to Qlik MCP server

The tenant administrator grants users access to Qlik MCP server with user role permissions. To use Qlik MCP server, user need the permission Qlik MCP set to Allowed under Features and actions > Agentic AI.

Creating MCP connections from LLM clients

Access to Qlik MCP is authenticated using with OAuth clients. The tenant administrator must be the first use to create the connection to all new MCP clients and then connect and authenticate with the OAuth client. This establishes tenant-level trust for the MCP client and the Qlik OAuth app. After the tenant administrator connects and authenticates, other users can connect to Qlik MCP server.

For ChatGPT and Claude, Qlik Cloud has pre-generated static OAuth client IDs. Follow the connection steps here to create the connection and authenticate:

• Connecting to ChatGPT

• Connecting to Claude

For other LLM clients, the tenant admin must first create an OAuth client for that LLM client and then connect and authenticate with it.

Creating OAuth clients for LLM clients

Do the following:

1. In the Administration activity center, go to OAuth.

2. Click Create new.

3. For the client type, select Native.

4. In the dialog, enter a name for the OAuth client.

5. Optionally, add a description.

6. Under Scopes, select user_default and mcp: execute.

7. Under Add redirect URLs, enter the authentication callback URL for the LLM client and click Add.

   These URLs come from your LLM client. For example, this is https://chatgpt.com/connector_platform_oauth_redirect for ChatGPT or https://claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback for Claude.

8. Click Create.

9. Copy the Client ID.

   It will be used to connect to the Qlik MCP server.

10. Click Done.

Administering Qlik MCP server

Qlik MCP server is administered from the Administration activity center, where you can monitor capacity usage

Qlik MCP server capacity

Your Qlik Cloud subscription determines the quota of questions asked by users. If you are licensed for Qlik Answers, both MCP and Qlik Answers will use your monthly questions capacity

Monitoring Qlik MCP server capacity

Metering of capacity consumption is visible from Home in the Administration activity center.

Questions (monthly) tracks the number of questions used from your monthly quota. Hover over the bars to see a tooltip with more details. The colors of the bars represent different metrics.

• Blue bar: The consumed amount this period.

• Red bar: Overage consumption. Overage is when the consumption of a resource exceeds the purchased amount for the period.

• Dark gray vertical line: The consumed amount last period

For more information on subscriptions and quotas, see the Qlik MCP server product description.

Question capacity

Question quotas are per month and reset every month. Questions do not carry over between months. When you hit your limit, users can no longer ask questions until the next month. Overage is only allowed, depending on your subscription. For more information, see Qlik MCP server product description.

For more information on overage, see Overage.

Qlik MCP server guardrails

Guardrails are hard limits on capacities. They are used to ensure Qlik MCP server performance and stability. The following guardrails and capacities are used by Qlik MCP server:

• A tenant's Qlik MCP server can have a maximum of 20 concurrent application sessions loaded into memory at one time. Any number of users can be connected to these applications. Connections to applications beyond 20 will fail.

• There is a maximum of 300 MCP tool calls per user per minute through the Qlik API gateway.