unkey/authentication/key_not_found

{
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_2c9a0jf23l4k567"
  },
  "error": {
    "detail": "The provided root key is invalid. We could not find the requested key.",
    "status": 401,
    "title": "Unauthorized",
    "type": "/errors/unkey/authentication/key_not_found"
  }
}

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Likely causes

• The root key was deleted or rotated.
• The token has a typo or was copied incompletely.
• You sent one of your own API keys instead of a root key. Then detail is just The provided root key is invalid., without the second sentence.

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How to fix

1. Check the token against the root key you created in the dashboard. Root keys start with unkey_.
2. If you rotated or deleted the key, create a new one and update every service that uses it.
3. Don’t send your own API keys in the header. They go in the body of keys.verifyKey.

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Related errors

• err:unkey:authorization:key_disabled: the root key exists but is disabled.
• err:unkey:authorization:workspace_disabled: the key’s workspace is disabled.
• err:unkey:data:key_not_found: a key referenced in a request body or path doesn’t exist.