Running the command on an alert reports `{"error": "HTTP 404", "detail": ""}`.
The API returns 404 with an empty body, so the operator is told a number and
nothing else — and cannot tell a normal answer from a fault.
It is usually normal, and the URL is not at fault: it is built exactly as
get_alert_evidence builds its own, which works. Rapid7 uses the same 404 for
three unrelated situations and does not distinguish them:
- the alert is not an endpoint detection, so no tree exists. This is the
common case on a feed of ingress_auth, asset_auth or firewall events;
- the tree exists in principle but was never generated. The endpoint returns
the CACHED tree unless force_refresh is set, so an ungenerated tree answers
404 while its data is there. Retrying with force_refresh=true is the first
thing to try on an endpoint detection;
- the key lacks the privilege.
All three are now named in the error, and the force_refresh input says what it
is really for rather than describing it only as a staleness control.
The ingestion path already handled this correctly — it treats 404 as "no tree"
and counts only other statuses as errors — so nothing changes there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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