Why am I getting "Resource not found" when querying reporting web service O365 API for Message Tracing?

Question

I'm looking to programmatically access Message Traces using the Reporting Web Service API that O365 provides.

More specifically, I'd like to use this API route to access that information since I have not seen any other API/API Route that supports tracing of messages.

However, when I do the following cURL,

curl "https://reports.office365.com/ecp/reportingwebservice/reporting.svc/MessageTrace" -u "<my email address>"

I get this error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><m:error xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"><m:code /><m:message xml:lang="en-US">Resource not found for the segment 'MessageTrace'.</m:message></m:error>

I have verified that my authentication is working as intended and I can't use .NET for my use case so I can't use the rwsclient library, unfortunately.

Is this API route no longer valid? Or am I just querying the wrong thing?

Answer 1

I figured it out! It was because my account didn't have permission to access that endpoint. If you're also looking to figure this out, make sure your account has permission!