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Glossary: Monitoring Tools and the Identity Life Cycle

Access token

Also written: tokens, token

In OAuth, a string an app presents with each request to show what it may do. It carries scopes and expires, often after an hour, and deprovisioning revokes tokens because disabling a password doesn't end access that was already granted.

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Related terms

OAuth (Open Authorization)ScopeRefresh tokenToken revocation