Screen recording session fails with 403 after enabling specific retention policy

Why does this setting for screen recording retention cause immediate 403 Forbidden errors when the JMeter script attempts to start a session via the API? We are running a load test with 50 concurrent virtual agents using the Genesys Cloud Engagement API. The environment is a sandbox org configured for performance testing. When the retention policy is set to the default 30 days, the POST request to /api/v2/interactions/screen-recording/sessions returns a 201 Created status successfully. However, changing the organization setting to retain recordings for only 7 days triggers the failure.

The error payload returned is {"errors":[{"code":"Forbidden","message":"You do not have permission to perform this action."}]. The API key used in the JMeter test has the screen_recording:write and screen_recording:read scopes granted. We verified the token is valid by calling the /api/v2/interactions/screen-recording/settings endpoint, which returns the current configuration without issue. The failure happens consistently at the moment the session initiation request is sent.

We are using Genesys Cloud release 24.10. The load test script uses a simple HTTP Request sampler with the Authorization header set to Bearer <token>. The user profile assigned to the API key is a standard Agent profile with the Screen Recording capability enabled. We have tried resetting the API credentials and regenerating the token, but the 403 error persists as soon as the shorter retention period is active in the Admin UI.

Is there a known dependency between the retention policy duration and the API permissions for session creation? We need to validate if this is a bug in the API gateway or a configuration requirement we are missing. The concurrent load is low, so rate limiting is not a factor here. Any insight into why the retention setting would impact write permissions would be helpful.

This is actually a known issue…

  • The 403 likely stems from the retention policy exceeding the org’s storage quota or API scope limits for screen recording.
  • Check the /api/v2/interactions/screen-recording/settings endpoint to verify the maximum allowed retention period.
  • Ensure the service account has the screenrecording:session:create permission explicitly granted.

How I usually solve this is by checking the S3 bucket policy rather than the Genesys settings. The 403 often indicates the backend storage service rejected the write request due to missing permissions for the specific retention tier.

Verify the IAM role attached to the export job has s3:PutObject access. A common oversight is forgetting to grant write access for the new retention bucket path during legal hold configuration.

make sure you check the service account permissions. the retention policy change likely triggered a scope update that revoked screenrecording:session:create for the test user.