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authorization failure

Error message

authorization failure: {0}

What it means

`Error::AuthorizationFailure(String)` signals that the request failed authorization in the v1 query API. The handler rejects the request because the supplied credentials/authorizations do not permit the operation, with details in the message.

Solutions

1. Verify the Authorization header is present and correctly formatted (e.g. `Token <token>` scheme).
2. Check the token's permissions include read access to the target database/bucket.
3. Regenerate/rotate the token and update the client configuration.

Example fix

// before
let resp = client.get("/query").send().await?;
// after
let resp = client.get("/query")
    .header("Authorization", format!("Token {}", read_token))
    .send().await?;

fn is_auth_failure(e: &iox_v1_query_api::Error) -> bool {
    matches!(e, iox_v1_query_api::Error::AuthorizationFailure(_))
}

match api.query(&token, sql).await {
    Err(e) if is_auth_failure(&e) => {
        refresh_token();
        retry_once(sql)
    }
    other => other,
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling the v1 query API with a missing, malformed, or insufficient Authorization header/token for the requested database or operation.

Common situations: Expired or rotated tokens still deployed in clients, tokens lacking read permission on the target bucket/database, or sending credentials to a server configured with different auth expectations.

Understand the failure class

Background: Permission denied / not authorized / 403 Forbidden: access-control rejections when the caller lacks the required role, grant, or ownership — this error's family across 18 libraries.

Related errors

• Authorization error
• error decoding multipart file upload
• error decoding params from url
• error decoding query body
• invalid mime type ( )

AI-assisted analysis of influxdata/influxdb@06200ef96b (2026-09-19). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c520400d8a2fc19a. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at core/iox_v1_query_api/src/error.rs:22

use iox_query_influxql_rewrite as rewrite;
use thiserror::Error;

/// Error type for the v1 API
///
/// This is used to catch errors that occur during the streaming process.
/// [`anyhow::Error`] is used as a catch-all because if anything fails during
/// that process it will result in a 500 INTERNAL ERROR.
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
#[error("unexpected query error: {0}")]
pub struct QueryError(#[from] pub anyhow::Error);

#[derive(Debug, Error)]
pub enum Error {
    /// The requested path has no registered handler.
    #[error("not found: {0}")]
    NoHandler(String),

    #[error("authorization failure: {0}")]
    AuthorizationFailure(String),

    #[error("invalid mime type ({0})")]
    InvalidMimeType(String),

    /// Missing parameters for query
    #[error("missing query parameters 'db' and 'q'")]
    MissingQueryParams,

    #[error("error decoding multipart file upload: {0}")]
    MultipartFile(String),

    #[error("Invalid UTF8: {message} {error}")]
    Utf8 {
        message: &'static str,
        error: String,
    },

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