Qlik Sense - How to troubleshoot issue to access QMC and HUB

Bastien_Laugiero — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:29:54 GMT

Qlik Sense may be unable to access the Qlik Sense Management Console (QMC) and/or HUB. You will find below some guidance explaining how to troubleshoot those.

To start your troubleshooting you will need to clearly identify your issue:

Is the issue only regarding the HUB?
Is the issue only regarding the QMC?
Is the issue regarding both the QMC and the HUB?

In this troubleshooting guide we will talk about the third scenario where you are unable to open neither the Qlik Sense Management Console (QMC) and the HUB

As a second steps to identify your issue, you will need to answer the three following questions:

Is this issue has started occurring after a fresh installation or an upgrade of the product without having worked before?
Is this issue occurring on a random basis from time to time?

We will discuss the following two scenarios below.

Below is a provided list of article containing specific root causes that that could help you after following the above steps:

No Hub or QMC access after upgrade to Sense November 2017 or higher - recursive script
How to approach Qlik Sense Error 404 when access Hub/QMC
Qlik Sense: Cannot access QMC or Hub. Error in repository log: implementation not part of Windows FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms
Qlik Sense Installation successful but problem opening QMC/HUB
Can't access Qlik Sense QMC or HUB using local service account
Cannot open Qlik Sense Management Console or hub after upgrade - RootFolder and AppFolder are not defined at startup
Qlik Sense Management Console (QMC) and Hub are not accessible and connection to QRS Database times out after 90 seconds

Resolution

General verification

Before starting to investigate deeper into the issue you need to apply some basic steps to troubleshoot:

Verify general network connectivity. Qlik Sense relies on the usage of WebSockets, which may be blocked. See How to troubleshoot web socket issue for Qlik Sense? for details.
Are you following the minimal requirements (Please make sure you select the correct version).
Are the Qlik Sense services up and running? => Try to start and restart them to see if it comes back up and running. (You might need to wait a few minutes before the services become operational)
Are you using the correct URL to access the Qlik Sense Management (QMC) and HUB? => You can try to access them connected remotely to the Qlik Sense Server by accessing the URL https://localhost/qmc or https://localhost/hub. If this works you might have a DNS and/or a network issue.
Do you have connectivity to the Qlik Sense Server from the machine you are attempting to connect? Verify with a network ping and/or telnet to Qlik Sense on the relevant ports. Please see How To Check Open Ports Using PowerShell and the relevant version help site.

The issue has started occurring after a fresh installation or an upgrade of the product without having worked before

If after checking the above points you still experience issues, you need to know that to start properly, the Qlik Sense Management Console will need to have few services properly working:

The Qlik Sense Repository Database
The Qlik Sense Repository Service
The Qlik Sense Dispatcher
The Qlik Sense Proxy

To verify if those services are actually functioning correctly, you will need to check their logs.
Start by looking into the Qlik Sense Repository logs stored by default in C:\Programdata\Qlik\Sense\Log\Repository\Trace\Servername_System_Repository.txt. (You might want to restart the services before looking into this log to get fresh information)

If the Qlik Sense Repository Database and Service starts correctly you are basically looking at the following string in this logs (It might take few minute to initialize after a service restart)
Startup phase completed

If you do not find this string in the logs, then you will likely need to search for the first ERROR and/or WARN showing in this logs. You can then grab the content of the message and search it in our knowledge base

However if you find this string in the logs, the next step is to check the Qlik Sense Proxy logs stored by default in C:\Programdata\Qlik\Sense\Log\Proxy\Trace\Servername_System_Proxy.txt
Once again we would recommend to restart the Qlik Sense Proxy Service before looking into the logs to get fresh information.

In this log you might see few errors at the beginning saying
When contacting https://localhost:4242/ No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:4242
Could not contact local repository to retrieve local server node configuration No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:4242

Those will be expected since the Qlik Sense Proxy service will try to connect to the Qlik Sense Repository Service, so as long as the startup phase is not completed for the Qlik Sense Repository service you will keep getting those events in the logs.
Basically if the Qlik Sense Proxy service is starting correctly you should expect the following event in the logs:

Proxy is running

As for the Qlik Sense Repository if you do not find this string in the logs, then you will likely need to search for the first ERROR and/or WARN showing in these logs. You can then grab the content of the message and search it in our knowledge base.

E.g. Here is an example of the types of error you can get in the Qlik Sense logs:

Proxy will NOT be listening to port 443, likely bound by another process An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.

The above steps should help you to investigate the root cause of your issue for this scenario.

The issue occurs on a random basis from time to time

In the following scenario we are more looking into an environment issue such as network connectivity, resource overload, ...
The first step would be to check the Qlik Sense Repository Service and Proxy logs as described above to find any relevant ERROR and/or WARN that could explain the root cause.

Then you can start looking into the Windows Event logs (Application and System) to find any problem at a system level around the time you are getting this issue.

Below are common causes/events that you could find in those logs:

Memory starvation Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition?
Network issue The network link is down. Check to make sure the network cable is properly connected

Those types of event require often to involve your system and/or network and/or virtualization team for further troubleshooting.

In addition you can run a performance monitor to check the resource consumption on your machine following How to log CPU and memory with Microsoft Performance Monitor on a windows 2012 Server (PerfMon)

Re: Qlik Sense - How to troubleshoot issue to access QMC and HUB

christopherkramer — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:59:02 GMT

If the repository cannot contact license service, this could help: