- Log in and open your Qlik Sense app, and click Data load editor from the top menu.
- Click Create new connection in the Data connection panel on the right.
- Select REST from the connector list.
- Enter the GitHub or GitLab API endpoint URL (for example, a commits or repository activity endpoint for your target repository).
- Add the appropriate request header for your platform, along with your personal access token, to grant Qlik access to your repository data, then click Test connection to verify the request.
- Click Create to store the connection. You can now access the saved connection, browse the available data or tables, and select the ones you want to load into your app.
How to Integrate Qlik with Git
Try this guided demo to learn how to integrate Qlik with git.
📌 Why this matters
Why this matters
Git repository data includes commit history, branch activity, pull request counts, and contributor metrics that engineering leaders use to track development velocity and team output. Loading this into Qlik Sense lets engineering managers build dashboards that surface code activity trends alongside project, sprint, or business data. This is especially useful for teams that want to correlate development throughput with product delivery timelines or incident rates. Centralizing Git data in Qlik gives technical leaders a quantitative view of engineering performance without relying on platform-specific reporting tools.
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