A ChatOps bot posts room messages through the Webex API. Every thirty seconds the client log shows the identical HTTP 401 Unauthorized, with no intermittent 5xx. What does that regularity most strongly indicate?
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Short Explanation
A door that rejects your badge every thirty seconds on the dot is not a flaky hinge—it is the wrong badge. Repeating identical 401s scream credential or auth-config problems. Transient 5xx look messy and irregular by comparison.
Full Explanation
Steady, identical unauthorized responses against the Webex API point to expired tokens, wrong secrets, or clock skew affecting token validity. That pattern is a configuration/auth failure class, distinct from transient upstream 5xx. Changing ChatOps transport does not address the auth signal in the event stream.