Identifying Sisense Services

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This article is a reference point for understanding Sisense services and what their purposes are.

The notes column contains supplemental information about the service. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of how you would interact with the services for each scenario.

Current List of Sisense Services (as of Version 7.2)

Service Name	Name	Purpose	Notes
Sisense.Broker	Broker	Responsible for communication between services. All micro-services utilize the Broker service. In High Availability deployments, this service is associated with RabbitMQ as well.	Ensure this service is running as it is a prerequisite for other Sisense services to function.
Sisense.CLRConnectorsContainer	CLR Connectors	Responsible for powering CLR (.NET) connectors.	You may restart this service if you're having trouble with particular CLR-based connectors.
Sisense.Collector	Collector - Sisense Internal Monitoring	Responsible for internal monitoring and collection of data about the machine and process performance.	This service must be running in order to send logs for Sisense monitoring.
Sisense.Configuration	Configuration Manager	Responsible for powering the Configuration Manager application located at http://localhost:3030 on your Sisense webserver. Also exposes APIs for other configurations.	You may restart this service if you find you're having trouble getting the Configuration Manager site to load.
Sisense.Discovery	Discovery	Responsible for saving and storing configuration changes including those made in the Configuration Manager.	Typically you will leave this service alone outside of a Sisense migration.
Sisense.ECMLogs	ElastiCube Manager Logging	Responsible for storing build logs from ECM 1.0 and ECM 2.0, PSM, APIS, etc.	There should not be any reason for starting this service outside of basic configuration changes (Sisense migration, MongoDB changes, etc).
Sisense.ECMS	ECM 1.0 (Desktop ElastiCube Manager)	Responsible for powering the Desktop ECM.	You may restart this service if you're seeing issues building or accessing ElastiCubes on the desktop.
Sisense.ECMServer	ECM 2.0 (Web ElastiCube Manager)	Responsible for powering the Web ECM.	You may restart this service if you're seeing issues building or accessing ElastiCubes within Sisense Web.
Sisense.Galaxy	Galaxy	Controls the majority of web server logic. At this time this service also controls: Emails Reporting Export to image	You may choose to restart this service in the following example cases: Many API calls that failed with "api not found". User can log in but not able to navigate through dashboards upon login. Emails are not going out.
Sisense.Gateway	Gateway	Main entry point of the Sisense system. This service routes the API between many of the microservices. By default, this services listens on port 8081 and can be changed within the Configuration Manager.	You may restart this service if you are having trouble reaching the Sisense site on your designated port.
Sisense.HouseKeeper	HouseKeeper	This service is responsible for memory management of the Sisense application.	Typically there is not a need to restart or modify this service.
Sisense.Identity	Identity	Responsible for Sisense groups, roles, users, etc. This service is responsible for authentication and user management.	You may restart this service in instances where your user is unable to log in due to errors in authentication (not related to SSO authentication).
Sisense.Jobs	Jobs	Responsible for triggering jobs including emails after a cube build, emailed reports on a schedule, etc.	Typically there is not a need to restart or modify this service outside of troubleshooting scheduled jobs.
Sisense.JVMConnectorsContainer	JVM Connectors	Responsible for powering JVM connectors.	You may restart this service if you're having trouble with particular JVM-based connectors.
Sisense.Orchestrator	Orchestration	Utilized in HA to synchronize and distribute built ElastiCubes on the build node to the query nodes.	You may restart this service changing HA configuration settings. Please consult the HA documentation before restarting this service.
Sisense.Oxygen	Oxygen (Licensing)	Responsible for communicating with Sisense to verify licensing	You may need to restart this server if you are having licensing issues within the ECM or Sisense Web. Must be restarted upon license update (along with a logout and log back in).
Sisense.Plugins	Plugins Management	Node.js service which builds plugins.	Users do not need to restart this service each time they change plugins. Plugins service watches the plugins folder for changes and runs a build mechanism automatically.
Sisense.QueryProxy	Query Services	Provides a unified way to translate and access the backend SQL Engines. Responsible for query executions, throttling, load balancing, versioning, streaming and results formatting.	This service must be running in order for query execution to work.
Sisense.Repository	Repository	Responsible for storing Sisense metadata including: Dashboards Users Data security This service maintains connection to the files contained in MongoDB	This service must be running in order for users to view dashboards and log into Sisense Web.
Sisense.Shipper	Shipper	Responsible for shipping logs to Sisense for monitoring.  Reads data from C:\ProgramData\Sisense\Monitoring\LOGS folder and ships it.	This service must be running in order to send logs for Sisense monitoring.
Sisense.SPE	Data Prep and Streaming Engine	Responsible for powering: Export to Excel Preview table Data Wizard Custom tables and custom columns	You should restart this service when changing configuration settings for any of the modules power by it.
Sisense.StorageManager	Storage Manager	Responsible for storing files for file-based connectors such as CSV and Excel files	Typically no need to restart or change this service. You should restart this service when changing configuration for this component such as changing the max file size or minimum hard disk space for uploading files..
Sisense.Usage	Usage Service	This service is responsible for saving off Sisense usage data.	Typically no need to restart or change this service. You may restart this service after a change in configuration of the Usage feature.

Notable services on Sisense Version 7.1 and below:

Service Name	Name	Purpose	Notes
ElasticubeManagmentService	ElastiCube Management	Responsible for powering the Desktop ECM. This service was replaced by Sisense.ECMS and Sisense.ECMServer.	You may restart this service if you're seeing issues building or accessing ElastiCubes on the desktop.
Sisense.ECMLogsPersistenceService	ECM Logs	Responsible for storing build logs from the Desktop ECM. This service was replaced by Sisense.ECMLogs.	There should not be any reason for starting this service outside of basic configuration changes (Sisense migration, MongoDB changes, etc).
Sisense.Pulse	Pulse	Responsible for powering pulse alerts. This service was replaced by Sisense.Broker.	You may restart this service if you are experiencing issues with Pulse across the board.