Auth Failure Log Triage

When a user reports an auth, permission, credential, API proxy, OAuth, token, secret, 401, 403, or 503 failure, inspect live runtime evidence before proposing secret or permission changes.

Workflow

1. Confirm the affected surface from the user message: tool/integration name, URL host, thread key, execution id, pod/service, and rough time window.
2. Discover vlogs if needed:

call discover vlogs

3. Query likely auth failures in the last 24h, narrowing when the user gave a host, pod, thread, or execution id.

For Centaur API proxy / Iron Proxy issues:

call vlogs query '{"query":"kubernetes.pod_name:centaur-api-proxy-* AND (audit.status_code:401 OR audit.status_code:403 OR audit.status_code:503 OR \"failed to fetch secret\" OR unauthorized OR forbidden OR auth OR oauth OR token OR secret)","start":"24h","limit":100}'

For a specific thread:

call vlogs thread_trace '{"thread_key":"THREAD_KEY","start":"24h","limit":500}'
call vlogs tool_usage_by_thread '{"thread_key":"THREAD_KEY","start":"24h","limit":200}'

For a specific execution:

call vlogs execution_timeline '{"execution_id":"EXECUTION_ID"}'

4. If the direct query is empty, find labels first:

call vlogs field_values '{"field":"service","query":"*proxy*","start":"24h","limit":200}'
call vlogs field_names '{"query":"service:iron-proxy","start":"24h"}'
call vlogs streams '{"query":"proxy","start":"24h"}'

5. Summarize only what the logs support:

• Counts by status code: 401, 403, 503.
• Secret-resolution errors and the secret reference name, without exposing secret values.
• Timestamp, pod, service, host, method, path, and status for concrete failures.
• Whether auth transforms injected credentials, if shown by proxy fields such as request_transforms.
• Distinguish upstream denial (audit.status_code=403) from local proxy/secret resolution failure (failed to fetch secret).

Output Rules

• Lead with whether log evidence was found.
• Do not claim a secret or permission is wrong unless logs show that.
• Do not recommend secret rewiring until you have checked live vlogs evidence and compared the relevant error shape.
• If no logs are found, say which query/window was checked and ask for the missing discriminator: time, thread key, execution id, host, or integration name.