Common error codes for Azure Key Vault
The error codes listed in the following table may be returned by an operation on Azure Key Vault.
Error code | User message |
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VaultAlreadyExists | Your attempt to create a new key vault with the specified name has failed since the name is already in use. If you recently deleted a key vault with this name, it may still be in the soft deleted state. You can verify if it exists in soft-deleted state here |
VaultNameNotValid | The vault name should be string of 3 to 24 characters and can contain only numbers (0-9), letters (a-z, A-Z), and hyphens (-) |
AccessDenied | You may be missing permissions in access policy to do that operation. |
ForbiddenByFirewall | Client address isn't authorized and caller isn't a trusted service. |
ConflictError | You're requesting multiple operations on the same item, for example, Key Vault, secret, key, certificate, or common components within a Key Vault like VNET. It's recommended to sequence operations or to implement retry logic. |
RegionNotSupported | Specified Azure region isn't supported for this resource. |
SkuNotSupported | Specified SKU type isn't supported for this resource. |
ResourceNotFound | Specified Azure resource isn't found. |
ResourceGroupNotFound | Specified Azure resource group isn't found. |
CertificateExpired | Check the expiration date and validity period of the certificate. |
Next steps
- See the Azure Key Vault developers guide
- Read more about Authenticating to Key vault