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Qlik Sense Proxy Health Check Endpoint(s)

Andre_Sostizzo — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:56:31 GMT

This article will outline approaches for an administrator to add monitoring of the uptime/health of the Qlik Sense Proxy Service. There will not be specific recommendations for how to implement the endpoints on the network appliance.

Resolution:

Option 1:

Monitor https://sense.company.com{/virtualproxy}/qps/user (Documentation on the endpoint)
- Example: GET https://qlikserver.domain.local/qps/user
Expected return (since there is no authentication and thus no user session):
- HTTP 200 Response
- Content: {"session": "inactive"}

Option 2:

Setup an anonymous virtual proxy
- Do not worry about load balancing to an engine
- Do not worry about allocating tokens, those aren’t needed
Request a small JS / CSS file. Example paths:
- /resources/assets/client/dialogs/measure-dialog/edit-measure/edit-measure.css is 0KB
- /resources/autogenerated/product-info.js is 4.7KB
- Example end points:
  - GET https://qlikserver.domain.local/resources/assets/client/dialogs/measure-dialog/edit-measure/edit-measure.css
- Expected return:
  - HTTP 200 Response
  - Content: (blank)

Re: Qlik Sense Proxy Health Check Endpoint(s)

Emmanuelle__Bustos — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:46:26 GMT

Hi Andre and thank you.

Currently we are having an issue like this with a customer and I would appreciate if you could share a steps list to make the above procedure because is not clear to me. I was pointed by qlik Support to this article.

Re: Qlik Sense Proxy Health Check Endpoint(s)

Sonja_Bauernfeind — Tue, 18 May 2021 08:46:59 GMT

Hello @Emmanuelle__Bustos

Option 1 is similar to an example you can find in Qlik Sense QRS API using Xrfkey header in PowerShell - a customization example would be:

$hdrs = @{} $url = "https://qlikserver1.domain.local/qps/user" Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Get -Headers $hdrs -UseDefaultCredentials

Option 2 can be used by simply opening the page in a web-browser to check and ensuring you get a reply.

Re: Qlik Sense Proxy Health Check Endpoint(s)

vegard_bakke — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:57:03 GMT

Be careful about creating a anonymous virtual proxy. Default security rules for streams make alle streams open to anonymous users.

Check DevHub's Single Configurator after creating a anonymous v.proxy to see if you expose any streams you don't want to expose.

Assuming the anonymous v.proxy is named 'public', go to: https://qlik.company.com/public/dev-hub/single-configurator, and check if any apps are exposed.

This applies to security rules like: ((user.name = ""))