# Status Codes & Errors

impact.com APIs may raise errors for various reasons, such as a failed pathing, invalid parameters, authentication errors, and network unavailability. When a request returns an error, the system will provide a message to indicate more details about the failure. If there are particular errors found, they will be listed in the `Errors` array.

### HTTP Status Code Summary

| Code                  | Status             | Description                                                                                                                                 |
| --------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🟢 200                | OK                 | Everything worked as expected.                                                                                                              |
| 201                   | OK                 | Everything worked as expected.                                                                                                              |
| 🔴 400                | Bad request        | Often missing a required parameter.                                                                                                         |
| 🔴 401                | Unauthorized       | No valid API key provided.                                                                                                                  |
| 🔴 402                | Request failed     | Parameters were valid but request failed.                                                                                                   |
| 🔴 403                | Forbidden          | Returned by scoped tokens if they are disabled, or if the scoped token is enabled, but the specific endpoint is not enabled for that token. |
| 🔴 404                | Not found          | The requested resource doesn’t exist.                                                                                                       |
| 🔴 405                | Method not allowed | Method used in the call is not supported.                                                                                                   |
| 🔴 429                | Too many requests  | Too many requests hit the API too quickly. Reduce your requests significantly.                                                              |
| 🔴 500, 502, 503, 504 | Server errors      | Something went wrong on impact.com’s end.                                                                                                   |

While system errors are rare, we recommend writing code that gracefully handles all possible API exceptions. In many cases, these mean implementing a retry mechanism with an exponential drop-off in frequency.

### Error Response Example

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="JSON" %}

```json
{
  "Status": "ERROR",
  "Message": "Validation Failed",
  "Errors": [
    {
      "Field": "AccountId",
      "Message": "Not a numeric value"
    }
  ]
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="XML" %}

```xml
<ImpactRadiusResponse>
    <Status>ERROR</Status>
    <Message>Validation Failed</Message>
    <Errors>
        <Error>
      <Field>AccountId</Field>
      <Message>Not a numeric value</Message>
    </Error>
    </Errors>
</ImpactRadiusResponse>
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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