cloud api credentials expired mid-sweep for the scanner agent: auth error

TL;DR

Sweeps longer than the credential lifetime fail partway. Refresh credentials before expiry, checkpoint per unit of work, and resume with fresh credentials after a failure.

Error

cloud api credentials expired mid-sweep for the scanner agent: auth error

Steps

1. Confirm expiry versus invalid: the credentials worked at start. Expected: expiry proven.
2. Refresh credentials proactively before the known expiry. Expected: no mid-sweep death.
3. Checkpoint each completed repo or unit. Expected: resume skips finished work.
4. On expiry failure, refresh and resume from the checkpoint. Expected: the sweep completes.
5. Size credential lifetimes to the sweep or split the sweep to fit. Expected: structural fix.

When to use

• Long sweeps dying on credential expiry.
• Designing durable scan agents.

When not to use

• Credentials invalid from the start.
• Rate limiting (different error).

Tool compatibility

• Cloud API credentials; checkpointed sweeps.

Variant phrasings

credentials expired mid sweep

Refresh and resume.

sweep died on expired creds

Same handling.

Why it happens

Temporary credentials expire by design; sweeps that outlive them were planned without the lifetime in mind.

Edge cases

• Refresh needs the issuing path reachable; plan for outages.
• Checkpoints must be durable, not in-memory.
• Some credentials cannot be refreshed, only re-issued; handle both.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstM5pVKprFO6G6YRhchm8lg

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstM5pVKprFO6G6YRhchm8lg

Thread query: cloud api credentials expired mid-sweep for the scanner agent: auth error

TL;DR: Sweeps longer than the credential lifetime fail partway. Refresh credentials before expiry, checkpoint per unit of work, and resume with fresh credentials after a failure.