diff --git a/bin/tests/system/forward/clean.sh b/bin/tests/system/forward/clean.sh
index 6d76bb013c..8473402a13 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/forward/clean.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/forward/clean.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #
 # Clean up after forward tests.
 #
+rm -f ./statschannel.out.*
 rm -f ./dig.out.*
 rm -f ./*/named.conf
 rm -f ./*/named.memstats
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/forward/ns4/named.conf.in b/bin/tests/system/forward/ns4/named.conf.in
index c97823dee0..800b9831a7 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/forward/ns4/named.conf.in
+++ b/bin/tests/system/forward/ns4/named.conf.in
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ options {
 	minimal-responses yes;
 };
 
+statistics-channels { inet 10.53.0.4 port @EXTRAPORT1@ allow { localhost; }; };
+
 zone "." {
 	type hint;
 	file "root.db";
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/forward/tests.sh b/bin/tests/system/forward/tests.sh
index b9426997cc..4304dab277 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/forward/tests.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/forward/tests.sh
@@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ grep "SERVFAIL" dig.out.$n.f2 >/dev/null || ret=1
 if [ $ret != 0 ]; then echo_i "failed"; fi
 status=$((status + ret))
 
+# GL#1793
+n=$((n + 1))
+echo_i "checking that the 'serverquota' counter isn't increased because of the SERVFAIL in the previous check ($n)"
+ret=0
+"${CURL}" "http://10.53.0.4:${EXTRAPORT1}/json/v1" 2>/dev/null >statschannel.out.$n
+grep -F "ServerQuota" statschannel.out.$n >/dev/null && ret=1
+if [ $ret != 0 ]; then echo_i "failed"; fi
+status=$((status + ret))
+
 n=$((n + 1))
 echo_i "checking for negative caching of forwarder response ($n)"
 # prime the cache, shutdown the forwarder then check that we can