19. Diagnosing problems

Part 19

What users report, and which admin page is actually responsible.

The user says

Real cause

Where you fix it

No entitled products are available

The account has no product granted, or the product is disabled organisation-wide.

Entitlements — both gates (7.2 and 7.3).

Account is locked

Five failed sign-ins. Often a stale saved password on a phone.

It clears itself after 15 minutes. Unlock early only if they cannot wait (5.3). Repeat offenders: check the Login attempts limit (8.3).

I never got the reset email

SMTP not configured, or mail going to spam.

Mail (Part 11). Add SPF and DKIM in DNS if it is a spam problem.

I cannot create a workspace — no buckets

QuantaDrive storage is unconfigured.

Products → QuantaDrive → Storage Access (13.1).

Box is not available yet

The connector is switched off.

Admin → Connectors (Part 16).

No preview available

File type not enabled, or over the size limit.

Preview & Limits (14.1).

Uploads are being rejected under load

The upload admission ceiling is reached.

Preview & Limits → Limits & Concurrency (14.2). Watch memory after raising it.

My sync stopped

Usually the desktop app; sometimes the service.

Sync Monitoring (15.4) tells you which.

QuantaGrid stopped listing buckets

Temporary SSO credentials expired, or static keys were rotated.

Storage Access → check the status badge (13.3).

Everyone was signed out

Session or idle timeout lowered, or the sign-in method changed.

Session Policy (8.1) or Product Login (Part 04).

An unexpected error occurred

A sanitised message; the real cause is server-side.

Get the timestamp from the user, then match it in Session History (Part 10) and the service logs.

Cognito is not configured / unreachable

SaaS user management cannot work.

The message names the missing setting (5.6).

A page vanished from my admin sidebar

The product was disabled, so its block is hidden.

Entitlements (7.2).

19.1. Two rules that save time

  • Get the exact wording and the exact time. QuantaCloud’s messages are specific; a paraphrase throws that away.

  • Ask whether it affects one person or everyone. One person is an account or a device. Everyone is a platform setting you changed — start with what you changed most recently.