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Auth0 API keys and credentials
What every Auth0 credential a founder holds does, whether it expires, and what tends to break. Each fact links to Auth0's own docs.
At a glance
| Credential | Expiry | Permissions |
|---|---|---|
| Management API access token (client credentials grant) | You choose, default 1 days | Can be scoped |
| Application client secret | Not documented | Full access only |
| Tenant signing key (JWKS / SAML certificate) | Not documented | Can be scoped |
| Auth0 Dashboard login | Not documented | – |
Each credential
Management API access token (client credentials grant)
- You choose, default 1 days
- Can be scoped
Default lifetime is 86,400 seconds (24 hours). Lifetime is configured per API in the Dashboard (Applications > APIs, Maximum Access Token Lifetime). Tokens cannot be revoked once issued, so request a new one instead; revoking the application grant stops new tokens. Scopes come from the machine-to-machine application's authorized API grants and each endpoint needs specific scopes. Automations that cache a token will fail once it expires.
Application client secret
- Not documented
- Full access only
Rotate in Dashboard (Settings > Danger Zone > Rotate) or via the Management API rotate-secret endpoint (needs update:client_keys scope). No configurable grace period; new secret may take up to 30 seconds to propagate, during which either old or new may be accepted. Docs advise storing old secrets until no longer needed. Docs do not say whether secrets expire or whether multiple secrets can be active at once. Permissions come from the application's API grants, not the secret.
Tenant signing key (JWKS / SAML certificate)
- Not documented
- Can be scoped
Rotate from the Dashboard (Rotation Settings) or via the Management API (create:signing_keys, update:signing_keys). Revoke the old key only after applications are updated (revoke endpoint needs the key ID). Apps that pin a manually uploaded .cer file or SAML/WS-Fed partners must be updated after rotation. An expired signing key causes token verification to fail. No validity period was found in the docs excerpt reviewed.
Auth0 Dashboard login
- Not documented
Dashboard sign-in. Not an API credential. Session and MFA policy not researched.
What usually goes wrong
- Cached Management API token expires after 24 hours by default and scheduled jobs start returning 401
- Client secret rotated without updating the app; a propagation window of up to 30 seconds can cause intermittent login failures
- Old signing key revoked before every consumer fetched the new key, so token verification fails
Renewals and billing
- Auth0 plan. Plan and billing cadence not researched.
Not researched.
What Auth0's docs don't say
We couldn't confirm these from official docs, so don't rely on them either way:
- Maximum lifetime of Management API tokens (the 30-day maximum on the lifetime page is for APIs generally and was not confirmed for the Management API)
- Whether Management API tokens expose exp in a readable form via API
- Whether client secrets expire and whether multiple secrets can be active
- Tenant signing key validity period; the rotate-signing-keys page was only seen as a search excerpt after a direct fetch returned 404
- Dashboard login and MFA policy
- Billing model and plan cadence
Rotating or replacing a Auth0 key
The steps are the same for most providers: make the new key, deploy it everywhere the old one is used, check it works, then revoke the old one. Our guides walk through it:
Sources
- auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/access-tokens/management-api-access-tokens
- auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/access-tokens/update-access-token-lifetime
- auth0.com/docs/get-started/applications/rotate-client-secret
- auth0.com/docs/configure/tenant-settings/signing-keys/rotate-signing-keys
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Keep track of every Auth0 key
StackHangar stores your Auth0 keys in an encrypted vault, grouped by the product they belong to, warns you before they expire, and walks you through rotating them. We can't read your secrets.