“XSRF prevention check failed. Possible XSRF discovered.” error in Qlik Alerting

[Jamie_Gregory]

Hello Qlik Users!

If you’re using Qlik Alerting November 2020 SR1 or higher, you might see this message pop up when making a configuration change:

XSRF prevention check failed. Possible XSRF discovered.

This error is actually a Qlik Sense error. In some instances, the issue has been resolved by restarting the Qlik Sense services. If restarting the services does not resolve the issue, further troubleshooting may be required.

Please see this article for more information: "XSRF prevention check failed. Possible XSRF discovered." in Qlik Alerting when changing any configur...

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Qlik Digital Support

[a3697888_8888]

Hi Jamie, 

I am currently doing a performance testing using Jmeter and got this error "XSRF prevention check failed. Possible XSRF discovered." while sending below POST request to qlik sense. Do you have any idea on this?  

For the xfrkey parameter, a value with 16 characters randomly generated using Jmeter is used. 

Other APIs request work well with similar xfrkey,  but they are 'GET' request while the one has an issue is a 'POST' request.

[a3697888_8888]

This issue has got fixed by adding '["HubSection_Home"] to the body of the post request. Hope the resolution will be helpful to others. Thanks Qlik Community! 

[Jamie_Gregory]

@a3697888_8888 so glad you were able to figure it out!