API endpoint that can be used for AWS ELB heath check

[wliang]

Hello everyone,

I have recently upgraded Qliks Sense Enterprise from Nov 2017 to Nov 2018, now I'm facing a problem that the health check endpoint used in previous version doesn't work for the later version now.

I wanted to ask if there is any API Endpoint that can be used for AWS ELB to hit and check the service health. Most of the API endpoint requires authentication including the Qlik Engine healthcheck ":4747/engine/healthcheck/" and will return 401 hence fail the AWS ELB healt check.

I have also tried to create new virtual proxy to allow anonymous access on the endpoint, but this also brings risk of exposing the endpoint to public. 

Is there any Qlik endpoint that I can use to call and get a 200 response without getting authentication? Or if there is any other way to get AWS ELB health check on Qlik Sense working?

Thanks very much!

[Levi_Turner · Accepted solution]

@wliang ,

You should be able to hit https://server.company.com/qps/user without authentication (in which case it will return an inactive response in the JSON). This has the benefit of not spamming the logs like other approaches.

[wliang]

yes, this worked.

Thank you so much!

[raz-datamind]

Hi,

I understand that this healthcheck will return inactive response if the qlik sense engine is up?
What will it return if the engine is down?

Thnaks