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General·HTTP 409·API, CLI, FE

Credential in use

credential_in_use

Services still connect with this credential.

What this means​

The services listed in the response still hold this credential in their connection settings. Retiring it would stop them connecting after their next restart.

How to fix it​

Use Connect again so the services move to the default credential, then retire this one. To retire it anyway, send force: true.

Retry behavior​

Retry after the services have moved to another credential.

How it appears in the response​

ComputeSphere returns errors as RFC 7807 Problem Details. The type field is the docs URL for this page — switch on code in your client.

{
  "type":    "https://docs.computesphere.com/errors/credential_in_use",
  "title":   "Credential in use",
  "status":  409,
  "code":    "credential_in_use",
  "detail":  "Services still connect with this credential.",
  "instance": "/v2/…",
  "request_id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "trace_id":   null
}

The Content-Type header is application/problem+json. On field-level validation errors a non-empty errors[] array also appears, each entry carrying its own docs_url for the offending field.