How are M2M tokens accounted for?

[alan.satis]

Hello, I hope everyone is well.

I would like some help to understand a scenario, as I am new here

In most Okta licenses, 1000 tokens are provided to authenticate M2M calls. But I fear that this amount is not enough.

I did a small test, requesting 5000 tokens, and when I went to check my quotas, only 39 authentication calls had been counted.

What is considered an authentication call? I need to understand so I can calculate an average of authentication calls that will be necessary for my applications. At the moment I have only tested with one application.

Thanks for your help.

[Fario_Consulting]

Hi Alan,
An authentication call happens when a client secret is included in a call

[alan.satis]

Hi Fario,

Hi Fario,

I made 5k specific calls:
curl --request POST
–url https://dev-mydomain.us.auth0.com/oauth/token
–header ‘content-type: application/json’
–data ‘{“client_id”:“<client_id>”,“client_secret”:“”,“audience”:“https://test-oauth.test”,“grant_type”:“client_credentials”}’

The calls were made on Monday. Today, Wednesday, in the quotas menu, I have counted 49 M2M tokens out of 1000.

I still haven’t figured out why.